Sentences with phrase «delivers magnetic pulses»

The treatment delivers magnetic pulses to specific areas of the brain.

In the study, published in the Lancet, 82 people who suffer from migraines with aura received a TMS device, and the same number received a fake (or «sham») version of the device, which looked — and vibrated — just like the real thing, but did not deliver the magnetic pulses.

Not exact matches

Electromagnetic coils are positioned near a patient's skull to deliver brief pulses of magnetic fields; these induce electric currents inside the head, which cause neurons to fire in brain regions associated with mood.

FDA guidelines for first - time NeuroStar treatments call for 3,000 magnetic pulses delivered over 37.5 minutes (a rate considered low - frequency) by a C - shaped ferromagnetic coil held to the patient's scalp.

In a second set of studies, the researchers temporarily disabled the right temporal parietal junction with pulses of magnetism delivered through transcranial magnetic stimulation, a technique used to treat Parkinson's disease and some intractable cases of depression.

They delivered short magnetic pulses that briefly shut down different parts of the brain.

Instead of using a solenoid to generate a magnetic field, CHI involves injecting a magnetic field into the floor of the tokamak, removing the need to deliver periodic pulses of current.