Sentences with phrase «targeted brain area»

These magnetic fields briefly stimulate the targeted brain area and improve depressive symptoms.

This electrical current stimulates the brain cells (neurons) in a targeted brain area and causes them to fire (or send an electrical impulse).

In contrast, late - born neurons are much more accurate, focusing on a single target brain area and only making connections there, rather than reaching out to many different areas.

Future studies also include the identification of target brain area of TEG, its BBB permeability and the mechanism through which TEG induces sleep.

What's more, when the TMS directly targeted the brain areas that were initially active for the uncued item, the reactivation response was even stronger.

«Future studies include the identification of target brain area of octacosanol, its BBB permeability, and the mechanism via which octacosanol lowers stress,» Kaushik says.

One popular set of techniques, called transcranial electrical stimulation (TES), delivers electrical current via electrodes stuck to the scalp, typically above the target brain area.

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The idea was «to identify the areas of the brain in which p11 is particularly important, in order to find targets» for new therapies for depression, says Kaplitt.

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Such insights inspired Wingeier and other researchers working to target tDCS to specific brain areas.

Deep - brain stimulation involves the surgical placement of electrodes in the brain to deliver stimulation to targeted areas that control movement, similar to the way pacemakers are used to maintain a healthy heart rate.

Whereas some of the other types of visual prostheses propose stimulating different areas of the brain from the one Pezaris is targeting, another promising project known as the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System is expanding its U.S. clinical trial into Europe.

Researchers from Heidelberg University have developed a computer vision technique to analyse the changes in motor skills that result from targeted stimulation of healthy areas of the brain.

Transcranial magnetic stimulation can stimulate brain cells from outside the head, but is not highly targeted and so affects large areas of the brain at once.

The brain's precise speech center varies from person to person, so to find Ramsey's target area — the place where an implant could discern the appropriate speech signals — Kennedy used a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scan.

Gene switches have been identified that work in specific brain areas, potentially enabling targeted treatment of unhealthy cells.

«Only by understanding the complexities of what happens in specific cell - types found in specific areas of the brain during this disease can targeted treatments for Parkinson's disease be produced.»

Noisier signals arriving in higher visual areas may be harder to interpret, distracting the brain from the target and so making it more difficult to detect.

This process, called tiling, evenly spaces the axons in their target areas within the brain.

In the SLAH procedure, a saline - cooled fiberoptic laser probe was precisely targeted to the area of the brain — the «amygdalohippocampal complex» — responsible for the procedures.

This coil permits the targeted stimulation of areas of the brain which, according to the latest research, play a major role in MS - associated fatigue.

And in transgenic pups whose optic nerves were surgically severed 4 days after birth, retinal axons grew around the gap, finding their way to the proper target areas in the brain.

These findings underscore the need for research aimed at tracking its spread to the earliest points of origin in the brain, so therapies that target those areas can be developed.

In the case of Parkinson's disease, the brain areas targeted are those whose hyperactivity cause the condition's distressing symptoms.

And I took the opposite half of the brain, pulled out the hippocampus, which is the area described by researchers as the target for disease, and ground it up, saving the RNA.

Previous studies had hinted at the specificity of these brain areas for targeting faces.

As professionals working in this area, we use personalized computer - based brain - training protocols to help children and adults improve targeted skills.

Gene switches have been identified that work in very specific brain areas, potentially enabling light to target unhealthy cells without disrupting healthy ones.

Such studies could guide still - experimental therapies such as transcranial magnetic stimulation, which aims to suppress or boost brain activity in targeted areas through electrical currents.

These findings open the door for researchers to potentially explore therapies that could target this area of the brain and disrupt its role in addiction, potentially with new drugs or other techniques such as deep brain stimulation or transcranial magnetic stimulation.

To conduct the study, Salas and her colleagues from the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation used transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), which painlessly and noninvasively delivers electromagnetic currents to precise locations in the brain and can temporarily and safely disrupt the function of the targeted area.

Because of the work of several other collaborators, Haughey says, his team knew that some sort of inflammation - promoting molecule was released from brain and targeted to the liver after brain injury to send immune system cells to the damaged area, but the identity of this go - between had been elusive for years.

Gradinaru also thinks the method is a good candidate for targeting areas other than the brain, such as the peripheral nervous system.

The solution was targeted to each animal's striatum, a brain region involved in motor control; it is the dopamine - producing nerve cells in this area that die during Parkinson's disease.

Epilepsy researcher Jeanne Paz, PhD, an assistant investigator at Gladstone, found a way to stop seizures as soon as they start by targeting an area of the brain called the thalamus.

These cells have the same ability as the brain's normal dopamine cells to not only reach but also to connect to their target area over longer distances.

The scanner mapped participants» neural activity in specific brain areas before, during and after the presentation of the visual target events.

A selected set of targets have been analyzed by using the antibodies in serial sections of mouse brain which covers 129 areas and subfields of the brain, several of these regions difficult to cover in the human brain.

The light can reach deep into a mouse's brain tissue to target specific areas for exact periods of time, with «scalpel - like precision,» Bruchas said.

Dr. Paz thinks that the thalamus may serve as a «choke point» for cortical seizures and targeting this area can halt abnormal brain activity before it spreads further.

Although optogenetics is not yet possible in humans, Dr. Paz believes we may be able to use similar therapies like deep brain stimulation to target a specific area in real time to stop a seizure.

Certain adaptogens are used to target specific areas of your health that need a boost, and brain health is no exception.

The visual cortex activity, the area of the brain which receives data from the eyes, may be changed by targeting vision - related acupoints.

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