Sentences with phrase «noninvasive brain stimulation»

«These results suggest that brain networks might be used to help us better understand why brain stimulation works and to improve therapy by identifying the best place to stimulate the brain for each individual patient and given disease,» says senior author Alvaro Pascual - Leone, MD, PhD, the Director of the Berenson - Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation at BIDMC and Professor of Neurology at HMS.

New research from Sandia published in Neuropsychologia shows that working memory training combined with a kind of noninvasive brain stimulation can lead to cognitive improvement under certain conditions.

One experimental group received only cognitive training; the second group received cognitive training and exercise; and the third group received cognitive training, exercise and noninvasive brain stimulation delivered by electrodes on the scalp.

«Our group is working on the idea of using noninvasive brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease symptom control as a new clinical treatment,» Salimpour said.

Oberman then obtained a mentored postdoctoral fellowship at the Berenson - Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation at Harvard Medical School where she developed paradigms using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to study brain plasticity and excitability in individuals with autism spectrum disorders.

Freitas C, Mondragón - Llorca H, Pascual - Leone A. Noninvasive brain stimulation in Alzheimer's disease: Systematic review and perspectives for the future.

Contrast home usage with the seminal 2000 paper authored by Nitsche and his colleagues that tested whether noninvasive brain stimulation could help people recover movement after a stroke.

Also speaking at the event are Dr. Ken Lacovara (Insights from the biggest dinosaur skeleton ever found), Dr. Roy Hamilton (Enhancing human mental performance with noninvasive brain stimulation), Dr. George Brainard (Better lighting for better sleep in space), Denise Wong (Tiny bio-robots for microscale medicine and engineering), Dr. Melinda Keefe (The chemistry of art conservation), and Dr. Michel Barsoum (Molding conductive «clay» into the next generation of batteries)

What's more, Rose writes, «the results have exciting implications if noninvasive brain stimulation techniques can be used to reactivate and potentially strengthen latent memories» — in other words, recovering information that had been forever lost.

A study, published today in Science Advances, found that when scientists used noninvasive brain stimulation to disrupt a brain region called the temporoparietal junction (TPJ), people appeared less able to see things from the point of view of their future selves or of another person, and consequently were less likely to share money with others and more inclined to opt for immediate cash instead of waiting for a larger bounty at a later date.

Noninvasive brain stimulation in traumatic brain injury.

«If the trial proves successful, it represents a big moment in this field of medicine: For the first time we could have an FDA - approved form of noninvasive brain stimulation to help people with stroke by promoting concrete motor improvements.»

When they compared this map to sites on the brain surface that work for noninvasive brain stimulation, the two matched.

The few studies that have incorporated other training modalities, such as physical fitness training or noninvasive brain stimulation, have been small in sample size, short in time or narrow in scope, he said.

The dawn of the noninvasive brain stimulation movement is widely attributed to a 2000 paper by German neurophysiologists Michael Nitsche and Walter Paulus.

The beneficial effects of cognitive training can be significantly enhanced with the addition of physical fitness training and noninvasive brain stimulation.»

To give these patients another in - home option, Johns Hopkins graduate students have invented a headband - shaped device to deliver noninvasive brain stimulation to help tamp down the symptoms.

One of the Johns Hopkins student inventors demonstrates how the noninvasive brain stimulation prototype would fit on a Parkinson's patient's head.

Their next study investigates whether decision - making competence can be improved by specific interventions — ranging from cognitive training, noninvasive brain stimulation, physical fitness training and nutrition — to target the brain networks identified in the current study.

«Although different types of brain stimulation are currently applied in different locations, we found that the targets used to treat the same disease are nodes in the same connected brain network,» says first author Michael D. Fox, MD, PhD, an investigator in the Berenson - Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation and in the Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center at BIDMC.

In this paper, Fox led a team that first conducted a large - scale literature search to identify all neurological and psychiatric diseases where improvement had been seen with both invasive and noninvasive brain stimulation.

Noninvasive brain stimulation is having its heyday, as scientists and hobbyists alike look for ways to change the activity of neurons without cutting into the brain and implanting electrodes.

Combining visual rehabilitative training and noninvasive brain stimulation to enhance visual function in patients with hemianopia: A comparative case study.