Sentences with phrase «electrical brain stimulation in»

Only a handful of labs in the United States have the opportunity to research sensory feedback through direct electrical brain stimulation in humans like we can.

«There are too many folks out there right now who are using electrical brain stimulation in a cavalier way,» says Michael Weisend, at Rio Grande Neurosciences in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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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.

«The findings of this study offer the new suggestion that giving individuals a «zap» of electrical stimulation can enhance the brain's natural thinking cap boost in creativity,» commented study co-author and Georgetown psychology professor Adam Green.

It still might sound a little sci - fi, but scientists and entrepreneurs are already experimenting with wearable devices that use electrical stimulation to make your brain work better in a host of intriguing ways.

Tickling the brain with low - intensity electrical stimulation in a specific area can improve verbal short - term memory.

It is a big step toward the goal of pain science, which is to zero in on the brain region or regions altered by chronic pain and devise a treatment (a drug or maybe electrical stimulation) that can correct the malfunctioning neurons in that zone.

Electrical stimulation of the brain is found to accelerate learning in military and civilian subjects, although researchers are wary of drawing larger conclusions about the mechanism

In fact, Fields says, this bizarre electrical behavior may underlie the positive effects of deep - brain stimulation, which, though not well understood, has been shown to improve the symptoms of Parkinson's disease and other neurological disorders.

To amplify slow waves and get them into optimal sync with spindles, researchers plan to apply electrical brain stimulation to the frontal lobe in future experiments.

An area of the mouse hippocampus glows green, indicating that the new method of electrical stimulation excited neural activity in this deep brain structure.

Called repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), the noninvasive technique uses electromagnets to create localized electrical currents in the brain.

George is referring to his role as editor - in - chief of Brain Stimulation, a journal launched three years ago to cover the growing list of technologies that can alter the brain's electrical actiBrain Stimulation, a journal launched three years ago to cover the growing list of technologies that can alter the brain's electrical actibrain's electrical activity.

In humans, this region could be a target for bringing some brain injury patients out of a comatose state via electrical stimulation, says lead author Nigel Pedersen, MD, assistant professor of neurology at Emory University School of Medicine and an epilepsy specialist at Emory Brain Health Cebrain injury patients out of a comatose state via electrical stimulation, says lead author Nigel Pedersen, MD, assistant professor of neurology at Emory University School of Medicine and an epilepsy specialist at Emory Brain Health CeBrain Health Center.

«We measured the electrical activity of groups of nerve cells within the subthalamic nucleus in patients with Parkinson's disease, who had recently been treated with deep brain stimulation.

(Lin noted that existing methods of electrical deep brain stimulation for aggression control are prohibited in the United States but approved in some European countries.)

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.

Such studies could guide still - experimental therapies such as transcranial magnetic stimulation, which aims to suppress or boost brain activity in targeted areas through electrical currents.

However, as early as 2002, Olaf Blanke and others induced OBEs by focal electrical stimulation of the brain's right angular gyrus in a patient undergoing treatment for epilepsy (Nature, vol 419, p 269).

Four young men who have been paralyzed for years achieved groundbreaking progress — moving their legs — as a result of epidural electrical stimulation of the spinal cord, an international team of life scientists at the University of Louisville, UCLA and the Pavlov Institute of Physiology reported today in the medical journal Brain.

When the scientists tried to trigger LTP in these brain slices with electrical stimulation or chemicals, they found that methods that fired up cellular pathways involving the molecule cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) didn't work.

«Electrical stimulation in brain bypasses senses, instructs movement.»

A new study authored by Marc Schieber, M.D., Ph.D., and Kevin Mazurek, Ph.D. with the University of Rochester Medical Center Department of Neurology and the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience, which appears in the journal Neuron, shows that very low levels of electrical stimulation delivered directly to an area of the brain responsible for motor function can instruct an appropriate response or action, essentially replacing the signals we would normally receive from the parts of the brain that process what we hear, see, and feel.

Another technique dubbed magnetoencephalography (MEG) maps magnetic fields in the brain produced by electrical signals; a similar approach, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), selectively stimulates parts of the brain and is already being used to treat severe depression, migraine headaches and other conditions.

Conversely, de-synchronizing or disrupting the timing of the brain waves in these regions impaired participants» ability to learn and control their behavior, an effect that Reinhart could quickly fix by changing how he delivered the electrical stimulation.

This technology delivers a consistent stream of electrical stimulation to an implantation site located deep in the brain; however, because stimulation is always on, the DBS's battery may deplete quickly, which necessitates invasive surgery for replacement.

Wilder Penfield was the first neurosurgeon to explore the neural locus of epilepsy at the same time as mapping behavioral / memory functions of different brain regions through electrical stimulation in fully conscious patients.

In fact, some emerging therapies for depression use electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve to trigger changes in the brain.&raquIn fact, some emerging therapies for depression use electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve to trigger changes in the brain.&raquin the brain.»

The flashing light sensation is just electrical stimulation in the brain.

In a study of 57 people at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston, Cerruti manipulated activity in the nonverbal part of the brain by using direct electrical stimulation and then tested participants» verbal activitIn a study of 57 people at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston, Cerruti manipulated activity in the nonverbal part of the brain by using direct electrical stimulation and then tested participants» verbal activitin Boston, Cerruti manipulated activity in the nonverbal part of the brain by using direct electrical stimulation and then tested participants» verbal activitin the nonverbal part of the brain by using direct electrical stimulation and then tested participants» verbal activity.

Originally developed to test hearing in infants, this test records the electrical activity of the brain in response to sound stimulation.

Meta - analyses, which are studies that pool results from several other studies, indicate electrical brain stimulation is effective in major depression.