With Nexstim's non-invasive device, researchers are using electromagnetism to slow activity in portions of
the healthy brain hemisphere that control the uninjured arm, similarly forcing the brain to use its injured half.
Not exact matches
Future
brain - stimulation techniques could target this bilateral effect in effort to promote communication between the
hemispheres and, hopefully, engender
healthy cognition throughout the lifespan.
After the PET scans were complete, the researchers calculated how much glucose was being consumed by the most active
hemisphere of the patients»
brains relative to the
healthy controls.
MRI scans of
healthy siblings of the stroke patients showed activity in language centers in the left
hemisphere of the
brain when the participants heard speech.
They found that in the
brains of the people with severe insomnia, the regions in the right
hemisphere that support learning, memory, smell and emotion were less well connected compared with
healthy sleepers.
MILNER: If I stay with my own level of interest in the
hemispheres of the
brain, I'm very interested in what we're doing now, working with people with normal
healthy brains.
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healthy brains that had previously been classified as having a single HG, Common Stem Duplication (CSD) or Complete Posterior Duplication (CPD) in each
hemisphere were analyzed.