Sentences with phrase «of deep brain»

The work in humans is complemented by laboratory work involving cell death in Parkinson's disease, effects of stimulation on hippocampal neurogenesis and animal models of deep brain stimulation.

The CSNE and Medtronic's neurosciences department have partnered to advance the field of deep brain stimulation (DBS) and are currently conducting an investigational trial.

Currently, my research focuses on the applicability of deep brain stimulation in OCD and psychiatric disorders.

Penn neurosurgeons are pioneers in the use of Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS).

The NIH BRAIN Initiative has awarded grants to five teams of experts who will study the neuroethical issues surrounding the use of deep brain stimulation in neuropsychiatric and movement disorders and appropriate consent for brain research.

Weill Cornell is the birthplace of many medical advances — including the development of the Pap test for cervical cancer, the synthesis of penicillin, the first successful embryo - biopsy pregnancy and birth in the U.S., the first clinical trial of gene therapy for Parkinson's disease, and most recently, the world's first successful use of deep brain stimulation to treat a minimally conscious brain - injured patient.

A phase I trial of deep brain stimulation of memory circuits in Alzheimer's disease.

This method therefore provides a patient specific approach to tuning parameters that may dramatically improve efficacy of deep brain stimulation.

«The alteration of body weight is one of the potential complications of deep brain stimulation as a treatment of Parkinson's disease,» explains Marilena Aiello, SISSA researcher and first author of the research.

The study, published in PLOS Computational Biology, provides a patient specific approach to tuning parameters that may dramatically improve efficacy of deep brain stimulation.

Researchers have developed a method to measure how the brain responds to electrical stimulation and use the response to maximize efficacy of deep brain stimulation (DBS)-- a therapy that has been successfully used to treat advanced stages of Parkinson's disease.

«Complication risk of deep brain stimulation similar for older, younger Parkinson patients.»

To search for such cells, the Mosers and their team delved into the medial entorhinal cortex (MEC), a slim arc of deep brain tissue where they had discovered the grid cells in 2005.

Neurosurgeons at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix are involved with testing the viability of deep brain stimulation (DBS) to treat Alzheimer's disease, a disorder that currently has few treatment options.

The patients agreed to undergo several minutes of deep brain stimulation to these regions during surgery as the electrode was being implanted.

The group performed non-invasive brain imaging in the first 80 college - aged participants of the DNS, showing them pictures of angry or fearful faces and watching the responses of a deep brain region called the amygdala, which helps shape our behavioral and biological responses to threat and stress.

When this article was first published on 26 February 2014, it did not acknowledge that the first trial of deep brain stimulation in a minimally conscious person was a team effort.

Among the awardees are researchers working on ultrasound methods for measuring brain activity, and the use of deep brain stimulation to treat traumatic brain injuries.

But electrostimulation research is difficult to do in humans because of the invasive nature of deep brain stimulation studies.

Working with colleagues from Harvard Medical School and Würzburg, researchers from Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin have been examining the use of deep brain stimulation in the treatment of Parkison's disease in an attempt to optimize treatment effectiveness.

The results, describing an effective network profile of deep brain stimulation has been reported in the journal Annals of Neurology.

Systems biologists, physicists, and engineers have intensively worked at computational tools to analyze, predict, and optimize the effects of Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) to treat chronic neurological diseases.

According to Dr. Tsai, growing evidence shows the efficacy of deep brain stimulation in patients with neuropsychiatric diseases.

«Every day, most of us take for granted that when we will to move, we can move any part of our body with precision and control in multiple directions and those with traumatic spinal cord injury or any other form of paralysis can not,» said Benjamin Walter, associate professor of Neurology at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, Clinical PI of the Cleveland BrainGate2 trial and medical director of the Deep Brain Stimulation Program at UH Cleveland Medical Center.

Another clinical trial, which Kaplitt is not involved in, is testing the effect on depression of a deep brain stimulator implanted into the same brain area.

Not exact matches

And Baidu snatched up Ng, a former head of the Stanford AI Lab, who had helped launch and lead the deep - learning - focused Google Brain project in 2010.

Or does it pull in contributions from other parts of the cerebral cortex and even from areas that are involved in emotional behavior, like the amygdala, which lies deep in the brain's core?

Some of the specific brain regions that sprang into action when Kurzweil was thinking outside the box: the dorsal anterior cingulate, which lies in the frontal lobes deep inside the brain, just above the band of fibers that connect the two hemispheres; the back part of the parietal lobes; and the right cerebellum, a cauliflower - shaped structure that lies at the base of the brain.

Scientists at the University of Wisconsin and UCLA conducted the study, which implanted electrodes deep into the craniums of epilepsy patients to monitor their brain activity during seizures.

Sure, if you spend all your time in the feel - good blogosphere you get the impression that the old school command - and - control style of management is dead and everybody has their Neanderthal brains safely chained up in a deep dark dungeon somewhere.

Deep in the dense part of the brain called the limbic system, the normally lithe network of rubbery - smooth tissue had become puffy and inflamed.

They've been studying deep sleep — the tier beyond light sleep and REM sleep — and found that using certain sounds to stimulate subjects» deep sleep can elevate the number of long - burst brain waves they experience.

The need to succeed and the mission of the organization must live deep within your core and infect every inch of your brain.

Deep inside of your head your brain sees a person looking directly at you as a possible threat or love interest — both get your attention.

With deep learning, organizations can feed enormous quantities of data into so - called neural nets designed to loosely mimic the way the human brain understands information.

«Because brain cells release amyloid beta during activity, we think if the brain cells can't rest the way they're supposed to and get that deep sleep, they produce a relative excess of amyloid,» Dr. Yo - El Ju of Washington University, an author of that study, told Reuters.

During a key experiment in the 1990s, for example, researchers damaged the neocortex of female hamsters after birth but spared deeper brain structures.

Hamilton, he writes, «had learned through experience that doing anything worthwhile with your brain requires a foundation built on thousands of hours of deep work.

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By using exercises based in neuroscience that are designed to tap into your brain's natural potential, you will gain a deeper understanding of your core values and the skills to authentically communicate your startup's mission to investors, partners, and clients / customers.

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In the case of compulsive hand - washing, this involved a patient acknowledging that his hands were in fact clean (relabeling); attributing anxieties and doubts about his hands being dirty to a misfunctioning brain (reattributing); directing his thoughts and actions away from handwashing and toward productive ends (refocusing); and, lastly, understanding at a deep level the senselessness of OCD messages (revaluing).

My entire concept of God shifted in that moment, leaving my brain and my life and my theology to catch up with what my soul now knew deep.

And while Christianity's highest and deepest implications may tax the brains and moral courage of the most fully developed personalities, they can also be accepted by the relatively simple and ungifted.

One of his earlier television efforts, The Addicted Brain, was an exceptionally well - done piece that also brought together science and social commentary in a way that spurred deeper reflection.

To believe as you do requires that you turn off your brain, learn and accept nothing of reality, and ignore the overwhelming geologic and deep time evidence.

Perhaps the deeper, more complex and underlying question that needs to be asked about dreams, given the scientific evidence, is whether our brains are part of «closed» or «open» systems.

It is obvious to me that I altered my brain significantly after years of intense / deep prayer and meditation and that as a result of these contributory experiences I was a high - functioning schizophrenic for a good portion of my life — there were things going on in my biology which predisposed me to being a depressive and a high - functioning schizophrenic but engaging in intense / deep prayer and meditation was only exacerbating this problem by altering my state of consciousness which precipitated the psychotic symptoms and psychic phenomena which I experienced.

So for example, in my case and that of other persons whose minds dissociate when we engage in intense / deep spiritual practices like intense / deep prayer, meditation, fasting etc and we hear voices, hallucinate, see visions, experience thought insertions, automatic channelling just like a spirit medium as well as other psychic phenomena (clairvoyance etc), and the mind dissociation makes some persons mentally and emotionally unstable; our minds enter an altered state of consciousness just like those of the Buddhist monks but in our case the altered state of our brains results in psychotic and psychic symptoms being induced (interestingly, some persons who are ignorant of how the human brain functions chalk up these experiences to demonic attack)......... are these psychotic, psychic experiences which persons like myself experience a gift from God as well?

This problem runs deep, undercutting even the basis of rationality itself.4 In the atheist's naturalistic worldview, thoughts and reasoning are just the results of chemical reactions in the brain.