Sentences with phrase «electrodes in a human patient»

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Delgado implanted similar electrode arrays, or «stimoceivers,» in the brains of cats, monkeys, chimpanzees, and even human psychiatric patients.

But it wasn't until May this year that researchers measured the firing of mirror neurons in humans directly, using electrodes implanted in the brains of epileptic patients awaiting surgery (Current Biology, vol 20, p 750).

In humans, because invasive studies are not ethically permissible except in some neurological patients, by far the largest number of EEG studies have been conducted using electrodes glued to the scalIn humans, because invasive studies are not ethically permissible except in some neurological patients, by far the largest number of EEG studies have been conducted using electrodes glued to the scalin some neurological patients, by far the largest number of EEG studies have been conducted using electrodes glued to the scalp.

Scientists at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and the University of Southern California (USC) Viterbi School of Engineering have demonstrated a neural prosthetic system that can improve a memory by «writing» information «codes» (based on a patient's specific memory patterns) into the hippocampus of human subjects via an electrode implanted in the hippocampus (a part of the brain involved in making new memories).