Sentences with phrase «testing brain stimulation»

Shepherd Center patient Kim Mullins participates in a Nexstim clinical trial testing a brain stimulation therapy for people who have had a stroke.

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The work is still in it's early stages — «Any effort to use electric current for stimulating the brain outside the laboratory or clinic could be dangerous and should be strongly discouraged,» Green cautions — but there are already places where the idea of electrical stimulation is being tested out in the real world.

The researchers used something called Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) to stimulate an area of the brain associated with creativity while they asked study subjects to complete tests of verbal creativity, such as coming up with as many associations between a set of words as possible.

To test the idea, Snyder and colleagues exposed subjects to low - frequency magnetic pulses (the technology is called transcranial magnetic brain stimulation, or TMS) that suppressed part of their brain function.

Contrast home usage with the seminal 2000 paper authored by Nitsche and his colleagues that tested whether noninvasive brain stimulation could help people recover movement after a stroke.

Although more work is needed to examine whether those findings are relevant for people, «they suggest that clinical trials testing treatments that increase brain activity, such as deep brain stimulation, should be monitored carefully in people with neurodegenerative diseases,» said Dr. Duff.

A University of Illinois at Chicago researcher will test whether brain stimulation combined with gait training can improve patients» ability to walk after a stroke, under a $ 1.5 million grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Brain stimulation could now be added to the tests used to make that diagnosis.

Guessing that the reduced ability to control force in patients with PD was related to decreased dopamine — which makes it harder to «recruit» neurons for a particular task — the researchers devised a brain stimulation experiment to further test their hypothesis.

The study — which included tests on pilgrims taking part in the famous Camino de Santiago and a brain stimulation experiment — found no link between intuitive / analytical thinking, or cognitive inhibition (an ability to suppress unwanted thoughts and actions), and supernatural beliefs.

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.

Major technical challenges must be overcome before the approach can be tested in humans, but the technique could eventually provide a wireless, nonsurgical alternative to traditional deep brain stimulation surgery, researchers say.

The military is also testing monitoring techniques for another reason: to use brain stimulation to increase a fighter's alertness and attention.

By testing cycling time to task failure (TTF) in a group of 12 active participants in a placebo controlled study, Dr Mauger discovered that stimulating the brain by passing a mild electrical current (transcranial direct current stimulation or tDCS) over the scalp to stimulate it increased the activity of the area associated with muscle contraction.

Now three years later, the key findings documented in Brain detail the impact of epidural stimulation in four participants, including new tests conducted on Summers.

«We wanted to test the hypothesis that these various stimulation sites are actually different spots within the same brain network,» explains Fox.

Brain stimulation can result in dramatic benefit to patients with these disorders, motivating researchers to test whether it can also help patients with other diseases.

This task has been used in several studies showing recruitment of the medial temporal lobe during navigation.28 - 30 The study was performed in accordance with the protocol (available at NEJM.org), which includes mention of a test of deep - brain stimulation during egocentric training; we have yet to carry out this part of the protocol.

Shepherd Center is testing a navigated brain stimulation system developed by a Finnish medical technology company called Nexstim.

For example, during each of the first three blocks of the test, Subject 1 received deep - brain stimulation while navigating to stores 1, 3, and 5 but not to stores 2, 4, and 6; Subject 2, on the other hand, received deep - brain stimulation while navigating to stores 2, 4, and 6 but not to stores 1, 3, and 5.

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.

This is where we will test the ability of our neural stimulation protocols to induce activity - dependent neuroplasticity by remodeling neural connections between cortical regions in the brain.

In a study of 57 people at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston, Cerruti manipulated activity in the nonverbal part of the brain by using direct electrical stimulation and then tested participants» verbal activity.

Originally developed to test hearing in infants, this test records the electrical activity of the brain in response to sound stimulation.

Additional capabilities include electrodiagnostics including hearing tests (BAER), brain wave assessment (EEG) and evaluation of peripheral nerve and muscle function (EMG, nerve conduction studies, repetitive stimulation, etc.).

Alik Widge, a psychiatrist - engineer focusing on brain stimulation, told the publication that while rodents can be used for early stages, the company will eventually need an animal like a pig that has a «big brain with lots of folds» to properly test its creation.

ECD programmes can take many forms, including promotion of good health and nutrition, support for safe and stimulating environments, protection from risks such as violence or abandonment, parenting support and early learning experiences, media, preschools and community groups.4 Poverty is the key underlying cause of poor child development; children living in poverty are exposed to many negative influences, including poor physical environments, inadequate nutrition, parental stress and insufficient cognitive stimulation.5 Undernutrition can influence brain development directly by affecting brain structure and function, or indirectly via poor physical or motor development, in addition to other pathways.6 — 8 Exposure to multiple co-occurring risks most likely contributes to greater disparities in developmental trajectories among children with differential exposure.9 — 12 This paper focuses on associations between specific aspects of children's physical environments — access to improved water and sanitation (W&S)-- and childhood development as measured by performance on a test of receptive language.