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 t
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 t
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 t
brain to distinguish scenarios with successful or unsuccessful functional restoration of the sense of touch.
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.
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.