Sentences with phrase «stimulated by an electrode»
Using a new type of optical imaging, Harvard Medical School researchers observed neurons as they were stimulated by an electrode.
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Can you design an experiment to actually confirm that you are not just a brain hooked up to electrodes by a mad scientiest who is stimulating your brain to make you believe you exist?
He notes, for instance, that the TI stimulated patches several millimeters across in the rodent's brains — far larger than the precise spots targeted by implanted electrodes.
Standard cochlear implants function by stimulating nerves using an electrode placed inside the cochlea, a tiny spiral cavity inside the ear.
By using eight implanted electrodes that snake through the patient's arm, stimulating muscles in the hand, the Freehand allows quadriplegics to groom and feed themselves and in some cases even to operate a computer.
The idea is to prevent seizures by stimulating the vagus nerve in the neck, via electrodes attached to a battery pack implanted in the chest.
By repeatedly stimulating neurons with electrodes, researchers were able to induce LTP, the strengthening of synapses.
They've even triggered déjà vu by stimulating those areas with electrodes.
«In this study, we showed that by just doing a rearrangement of the top electrode into a fractal geometry then we can stimulate the neurons within the open - circuit voltage of silicon photodiodes.»
Researchers have recently tried to treat depression by stimulating the brain with electrodes.
Scientists have traditionally studied the neural basis of behavior in live animals by using techniques such as stimulating neurons with electrodes.
Before now, scientists could only manipulate neurons directly and invasively by stimulating them with electrodes.
We used a transverse hippocampal slice preparation with two extracellular recording electrodes to capture propagation of compound action potentials (CAPs) elicited by a stimulating electrode in the presence of synaptic transmission blockers (CNQX, APV, and picrotoxin).
By electrically stimulating the surface of the brain through electrocorticography (ECoG) electrodes, we can provide touch feedback to our research participants.
These electrodes are used to record the electrical activity produced by the neurons, and also to electrically stimulate the brain.