Sentences with phrase «stimulating key regions»

It involves stimulating key regions of the brain — with currents or magnetic fields — to affect emotions and physical well - being.

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WHITE MAGIC Targeting parts of the brain's white matter, the tissue that connects different brain regions (shown), may be key to whether stimulating the brain with electricity will work as a treatment for memory problems and other ills.

Patients who lose consciousness for more than a year are considered extremely unlikely to regain it, but a 35 - year - old Frenchman who had been in a vegetative state for 15 years has shown hints of awareness after having key brain regions electrically stimulated, scientists reported on Monday.

To discern which part of the locusts body holds the key to transformation, researchers at the University of Oxford stimulated various body regions of 170 locusts that had been raised in isolation.

In addition, substances called growth factors, produced naturally in the brain, were more abundant in key regions on both sides of the brain in optogenetically stimulated, stroke - affected mice than in their unstimulated counterparts.