Sentences with phrase «electric brain stimulation»

The 18 - week study of 318 healthy young adults found that combining physical exercise and mild electric brain stimulation with computer - based cognitive training promoted skill learning significantly more than using cognitive training alone.

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The work is still in it's early stages — «Any effort to use electric current for stimulating the brain outside the laboratory or clinic could be dangerous and should be strongly discouraged,» Green cautions — but there are already places where the idea of electrical stimulation is being tested out in the real world.

Ang and co-workers, in collaboration with researchers across Singapore and in Australia, wanted to investigate whether patients could get better at using a BCI if their brain was first subjected to transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)-- the application of an external electric current to the skull.

In their study, subjects underwent 40 seconds of disruptive transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)-- in which a magnetic coil placed near the skull produced small electric currents in the brain that inhibited activity of the posterior TPJ — then spent 30 minutes completing a task.

Neuroscientists have also developed transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), which uses magnets held against the scalp to induce electric fields inside the brain, turning on neurons.

Spectrum Health is the first health system in Michigan and among the first in the nation to successfully implant a recently FDA - approved device that uses electric stimulation of the brain to treat adult epilepsy patients whose seizures have not responded to medication.

Whether you're sure about political affiliations or alien abduction, that feeling of knowing derives not from rational thought, he argues, but from the brain's primitive limbic system; the gut feeling is more likely to emerge from careful electric stimulation than from careful consideration.

It has already been shown that brain stimulation using electric currents can boost a number of cognitive functions (see «Apply the electrodes...»).

In transcranial magnetic stimulation a magnetic coil induces electric currents in the brain that can strengthen or suppress neural connections.

The easiest way to manipulate the brain is through transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), which involves applying electrodes directly to the head to influence neuron activity with an electric current.

Next, Casasanto and Brookshire turned to depression treatments involving continuous transcranial direct - current stimulation (tDCS), a brain stimulation technique that involves running a weak electric current between two electrodes on someone's scalp.

Although it is known that the electric stimulation blocks nerve activity between the brain and the stomach, the specific mechanisms for weight loss due to use of the device are unknown.

A study shows that applying gentle electric stimulation to the brain can boost math skills for up to 6 months.

By varying the stimulation parameters, they found the minimum electric field strength needed to trigger neuronal firing or to alter brain rhythms.

TMS therefore uses magnetic fields to specifically inhibit or stimulate single brain areas by weak electric stimulation through the scalp.

Neurophysical rehabilitation, as well as higher - tech approaches, like transcranial electrical or magnetic stimulation (where small electric currents are delivered to the brain) can encourage the brain to adapt.