Sentences with phrase «electrical activity associated»

The team was also able to reverse the abnormal electrical activity associated with the fragile X syndrome.

The EEGs also allowed the researchers to show that male brains have greater electrical activity associated with the GABA (gamma - amino butyric acid) neurotransmission than do female brains.

Not exact matches

Using an electroencephalogram (EEG) to detect electrical activity in the brain, Emmanuelle Tognoli, Ph.D., co-principal investigator, associate research professor in FAU's Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, and an expert in electrophysiology and neural, behavioral, and cognitive sciences, will examine how the tactile information from the robotic sensors is passed onto the brain to distinguish scenarios with successful or unsuccessful functional restoration of the sense of touch.

«Just as it takes time to train a person to swing a squash racket like an expert, it takes time to train one's neurons to produce the ideal activity patterns,» says Byron Yu, associate professor of biomedical engineering and electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon.

By testing cycling time to task failure (TTF) in a group of 12 active participants in a placebo controlled study, Dr Mauger discovered that stimulating the brain by passing a mild electrical current (transcranial direct current stimulation or tDCS) over the scalp to stimulate it increased the activity of the area associated with muscle contraction.

In one patient, the FO electrodes revealed frequent bursts of electrical activity called spikes, often associated with seizures, most which were not detectible by scalp EEG.

When a patient with epilepsy experiences increased electrical activity in the brain, or seizures, this could be associated with an increase in a range of behaviors, such as hyper - sexuality, hypergraphia (an intense desire to write), hyper - morality and hyper - religiosity, explained Brick Johnstone, professor of health psychology at Missouri University and lead researcher on the study.

Since lipid peroxidation may affect neuronal electrophysiology, our data suggested that age - related increase in lipid peroxidation may contribute to an age - associated decline in neuronal electrical activity.

When the scientists measured the electrical activity in the subjects» brains, they found that the brain's auditory cortex was stimulated by pictures associated with sounds, in less than 200 milliseconds.

Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder that is associated with a disruption in the normal electrical activity within the brain.

It is caused by abnormal electrical activity in the brain which causes associated symptoms such as muscle twitching, uncoordination and more.

Within this role, the Field Service Engineer will undertake a broad range of «hands - on» electrical engineering activity and the associated... more

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