Sentences with phrase «magnetic pulses»

Regular doses of magnetic pulses stimulate the brain and may cure depression, so could the treatment be used to change mood in healthy people?

The treatment delivers magnetic pulses to specific areas of the brain.

When held against a person's head, that magnetic pulse creates an electric current in the nerves of the head and the neurons of the cerebral cortex, forcing them to fire prematurely.

They delivered short magnetic pulses that briefly shut down different parts of the brain.

Zapping the brain with magnetic pulses while measuring its electrical activity is proving to be a reliable way to detect consciousness

Traditional DTI uses magnetic pulses to tag water molecules in the nerve cells of the brain and then records six characteristics of how these water molecules behave.

Sandia National Laboratories is mulling a new antigravity test using the lab's Z accelerator machine, which generates powerful magnetic pulses.

Researchers fired focused magnetic pulses through the skulls of healthy volunteers for 10 minutes to temporarily induce hemispatial neglect, mimicking the damage caused by a brain lesion.

To test the idea, Snyder and colleagues exposed subjects to low - frequency magnetic pulses (the technology is called transcranial magnetic brain stimulation, or TMS) that suppressed part of their brain function.

Highly focused magnetic pulses of up to 1.5 teslas induce an electrical current two to three centimeters deep in the left prefrontal section of the cerebral cortex.

Some have people listen to certain sounds, others apply magnetic pulses to the brain and even implant electrodes in the brain stem.

«This paper only makes sense if the observations [of magnetic pulses] are good,» says John Ebel, a seismologist at Boston College, who wasn't involved in the research.

When abnormalities are detected, a machine therapy called transcranial magnetic stimulation (tms) can send into the brain magnetic pulses powerful enough to shift and rewire those connections so their function is improved.

The researchers examined the responses of the brain to being stimulated by magnetic pulses — known as Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), which activates brain neurons.

All the more amazing, then, that so many people willingly don his specially designed headpiece so he can zap their brains with strong magnetic pulses in a bid to turn them, temporarily, into autistic savants.

The brief magnetic pulses observed prior to some moderate - sized earthquakes might be triggered by chemical bonds breaking in rocks under stress (such as those deep beneath the San Andreas fault, shown).

The proposal before Congress seeks funding to also pursue magnetic pulse fusion at Sandia and the rival laser technique called polar direct drive, which would be performed on NIF.

To test the particles, the researchers implanted mice with a tumorlike gel saturated with nanoparticles and placed those mice into the wells of cup - shaped electrical coils, which activated the nanoparticles via magnetic pulses.

Perminder Sachdev at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, says it is «very exciting» and also surprising that low - power magnetic pulses can reverse a developmental disorder.

New model suggests how some rocks deep within the planet might emit magnetic pulses under stress

Can magnetic pulses predict earthquakes?

For example, in the weeks before a magnitude - 5.4 quake struck about 15 kilometers northeast of San Jose in October 2007, an instrument near the epicenter sensed a number of unusual magnetic pulses, presumably emanating from deep in the Earth.

The device sends magnetic pulses into the nerves of the head and cerebral cortex, stopping migraines cold.

Finally, a geomagnetic storm causes the accumulated charges to discharge with sparks that create measurable magnetic pulses and sounds» Mr Laine, who is now a professor emeritus, explained.

The coil was connected to a capacitor, which discharged an electric current to create a split - second magnetic pulse inside the coil, about 10 times weaker than the magnetic field generated by an MRI machine in a hospital.

One approach used by doctors at UCLA and a handful of other centers nationwide is to beam magnetic pulses deep into patients» brains, a therapy known as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).

During the treatment, faint magnetic pulses were targeted to Sigman's frontal cortex, and he was instructed to answer a series of questions, but only after waiting for a set period of time.

Since the earth's magnetic field is the result of a huge liquid metal motor, you have to wonder if it can be altered (reversed) dramatically by a huge solar flux or some other huge magnetic pulse (novas, pulsars).

In order to modulate the functioning of fronto - striatal circuits, the researchers from the lab of Robert Zatorre used a non-invasive brain stimulation technique, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), which uses magnetic pulses to either stimulate or inhibit selected parts of the brain.

Other less mainstream treatments for mental health problems, include stimulating the brain with magnetic pulses, electroconvulsive therapy, deep brain electrode stimulation, staying at a Hindu temple and using virtual reality to treat schizophrenia and phobias.

ZAPPING the brain with a weak magnetic pulse can wipe out unwanted neural connections in mice at least.

It's the mass migration of such holes that creates the large electrical currents responsible for generating the low - frequency magnetic pulses that make their way to detectors on Earth's surface, they say.

Álvarez's team couldn't make spin measurements directly, but used brief magnetic pulses to create an effect similar to measuring the orderliness of the spins.

Ross and her colleagues applied magnetic pulses to two different areas of the brain in 25 healthy adults.

«The U.S. society and economy are so critically dependent upon the availability of electricity that a significant collapse of the grid precipitated by a major natural or man - made EMP [electro - magnetic pulse] event could result in catastrophic civilian casualties,» Rep. Trent Franks (R - Ariz.)

He used the powerful magnetic pulses to zap the brains of 12 volunteers, disrupting activity in the left anterior frontal lobe, an area where damage is known to cause sudden savant syndrome.

FDA guidelines for first - time NeuroStar treatments call for 3,000 magnetic pulses delivered over 37.5 minutes (a rate considered low - frequency) by a C - shaped ferromagnetic coil held to the patient's scalp.

FEELING OFFBEAT Briefly disrupting a brain region involved in planning movement with a magnetic pulse hinders a person's ability to follow a rhythmic beat.

But the NAS committee favors a broad - based program that would give equal billing to alternative laser - based approaches from the University of Rochester in New York and the Naval Research Laboratory, as well as a magnetic pulse system being explored by DOE's Sandia National Laboratory and a particle beam system from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) seeks to create those conditions by taking a tiny capsule of fusion fuel (typically a mixture of the hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium) and crushing it at high speed using some form of «driver,» such as lasers, particle beams, or magnetic pulses.

Stocco's cap turns the signal into a magnetic pulse, causing him to press the «fire» button.

But to do it, MagLIF uses a magnetic pulse rather than lasers.

One critical parameter is the thickness of the liner wall: The thinner the wall, the faster it will be accelerated by the magnetic pulse.

Even if the magnetic pulses originate within Earth along seismic zones under stress, Freund says, the blips don't always foretell a quake.

Now, a team has come up with a model for how these magnetic pulses might be generated, though some critics say they may have a humanmade origin.

Disrupting the fish's internal compass with the magnetic pulse triggered changes in 181 out of the roughly 40,000 genes they examined.

Next the researchers sequenced all the gene readouts, or RNA transcripts, present in the brains of 10 treated fish and 10 controls to find out which genes were switched on and off in response to the magnetic pulse.