Sentences with phrase «of brain stimulation»

There is also a crazy amount of brain stimulation happening as your baby is learning to recognize the images, words, and sounds all around them.

The researchers are planning to conduct further studies to develop a patient - specific, «made - to - measure» method of brain stimulation.

There has already been a small trial of brain stimulation using wires inserted into the brain's memory centres, but this failed to help people with the condition.

It serves as an energy source for the brain which means that you are now getting a mega dose of brain stimulation when you really don't want it.

«As we're trying different types of brain stimulation for different diseases, the question comes up, «How does one relate to the other?

Research by the University of Kent into the effects of brain stimulation on athletes» performance has demonstrated that it is an effective way to improve endurance.

As with antidepressants, the electricity likely is changing the brain's chemistry, says rTMS pioneer Eric Wassermann, chief of the Brain Stimulation Unit at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda, Md..

In terms of ramifications of this brain stimulation research for education, the results could be quite beneficial for students who suffer from epilepsy and from dyspraxia.

Perhaps future studies could investigate the added benefit of brain stimulation treatments in combination with cognitive training for individuals with chronic TBI who experience problems with attention, memory or executive functions,» Han said.

Unfortunately, while the French patient, Schiff's, and a few others have been «awakened» by some sort of brain stimulation, those individual successes have yet to translate into help for thousands of vegetative or minimally conscious patients.

As such, by means of brain stimulation, the dream of Martin Luther King of a society in which people will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character, may become a little closer.»

«Whereas when you're having people do tasks in the absence of brain stimulation, it's not clear if you're getting this general improvement in working memory brain areas.

Although that decision was «game over» for BROADEN, the story wasn't finished for some 44 patients who asked to keep the implants in their brains, and the clinicians responsible for their long - term care, Mayberg explained last week to colleagues at a meeting on the ethical dilemmas of brain stimulation research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland.

«The origin was initially traced to the substantial reduction in motor symptoms, overlooking the role of the brain stimulation area — the subthalamic nucleus — in the reward system.

Scientists hope to ease the mental burden of diseases such as anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder by selectively targeting traumatic memories with behavioral therapy, drugs, ECT and milder forms of brain stimulation.

In his 1969 book Physical Control of the Mind: Toward a Psychocivilized Society, Delgado extolled the promise of brain stimulation techniques for curbing violent aggression and other maladaptive traits.

«ECT is the most effective treatment available for severe and treatment - resistant depression, but it requires anesthesia and can cause side effects like memory loss,» says Irving Michael Reti, M.B.B.S., M.D., director of the Brain Stimulation Program and associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Collecting qualitative descriptions of human perceptions of brain stimulation is one of the greatest benefits of working with human subjects in this research.

By supporting a naturally balanced level of brain stimulation, GABA's presence within the central nervous system may help promote relaxation and ease nervous tension.

Neurochemical correlates of brain stimulation reward measured by ex vivo and in vivo analyses

«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.

George is referring to his role as editor - in - chief of Brain Stimulation, a journal launched three years ago to cover the growing list of technologies that can alter the brain's electrical activity.

«Possible benefits of brain stimulation on hand, arm movement following stroke.»

«The complementary evidence of electrocorticography, fMRI, and brain stimulation will make it possible to study not only the effects of brain stimulation on the local neural networks that process face information, but also how they broadcast their information towards other regions in the brain.»

«In other words, can we use the success in one to help design a trial or inform how we apply a new type of brain stimulation?

An open letter warns the public about the risks that come from transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), a «do - it - yourself» type of brain stimulation.

There are two types of brain stimulation — the stimulation that comes from being exposed to new and different situations that «force» brain activity in certain regions, and the stimulation that comes from an outside «force,» in order to stimulate brain activity in a specific region.