Sentences with phrase «magnetic stimulator»
He's developing a transcranial magnetic stimulator to cure migraine headaches, another implantable device that will signal a heart attack even before symptoms manifest, and a tiny computerized mechanism implanted in the cranial bone that will anticipate and short - circuit epileptic seizures.
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Upton held the magnetic stimulator next to Hughes's head and pressed a button, sending out two pulses five seconds apart.
The device, known as a transcranial magnetic stimulator, is designed to send a strong electric current through a metal coil, which creates an intense magnetic field for about one millisecond.
Better yet, every one of Upton's subjects who has made it to the hospital during the aura phase has found that the magnetic stimulator dispels the aura and prevents the headache from occurring.
To confirm the link, Lavie connected test subjects to a transcranial magnetic stimulator, which focuses a magnetic field on a selected region of the brain — the parietal cortex in this case — and temporarily disrupts the neural circuitry there.