Sentences with phrase «stimulating white matter»

People whose electrodes were stimulating white matter did better on the memory tasks, the researchers discovered.

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New research on epilepsy patients suggests that stimulating a particular stretch of the brain's white matter — tissue that transfers nerve signals around the brain — improves performance on memory tests.
New research on epilepsy patients suggests that stimulating a particular stretch of the brain's white matter — tissue that transfers nerve signals around the brain — improves performance on memory...
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 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 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.
For example, stimulating in gray matter could disrupt neuronal computations, whereas electrodes that are confined to white matter may enhance excitatory drive to downstream regions (Afraz et al., 2006; Arcot Desai et al., 2014; Fetsch et al., 2014; Histed et al., 2009).
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