Sentences with phrase «used brain stimulation»

Researchers used a brain stimulation technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation to reduce the brain's response to drug cues in chronic drug users.

In the last part of their research they used brain stimulation to increase levels of cognitive inhibition, which is thought to regulate analytical thinking.

In a 2014 study, he used brain stimulation to disrupt a rear portion of the temporal lobe and found that it is important for integrating incoming signals with knowledge from previous interactions.

Simon Davis and colleagues used a brain stimulation technique known as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to modulate brain activity of healthy older adults while they performed a memory task.

Until then there isn't «enough evidence out there that healthy people should be using brain stimulation at home to achieve «better» cognitive abilities.»

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

The findings imply that, at least in theory, it might be possible to use brain stimulation to improve cognitive problems caused by PD, and possibly other cognitive disorders, too.

Not exact matches

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.

It still might sound a little sci - fi, but scientists and entrepreneurs are already experimenting with wearable devices that use electrical stimulation to make your brain work better in a host of intriguing ways.

Like a heavenly body that heats as it contracts, such, and in a twofold respect, is the Noosphere: first in intensity, the degree in which its tension and psychic temperature are heightened by the coming together and mutual stimulation of thinking centers throughout its extent; and also quantitatively through the growing number of people able to use their brains because they are freed from the need to labor with their hands.

Deep brain stimulation now helps to control her symptoms, and she revels in being able to use the simple gestures of everyday life again.

Our big - brained babies have to come out after 9 months gestation, however, in many ways, they could really use a few more months of the stimulation of the uterus.

Ang and co-workers, in collaboration with researchers across Singapore and in Australia, wanted to investigate whether patients could get better at using a BCI if their brain was first subjected to transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)-- the application of an external electric current to the skull.

These include Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation, the former uses alternating magnetic fields to simulate specific brain areas while the latter aims electrical currents of power equal to a 9 - volt battery to specific brain areas.

A noninvasive technique for brain stimulation, tDCS is applied using two small electrodes placed on the scalp, delivering short bursts of extremely low - intensity electrical currents.

The researchers disrupted the activity in this brain area using what's called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).

At the same time, transcranial magnetic stimulation was used to excite the brain's visual cortex, priming the volunteers to see illusory spots of light called phosphenes.

To answer these questions, a team of MUSC investigators led by stroke neurologist and physician - scientist Wayne Feng, M.D., MS, attempted something that has never before been tried — they directly measured tDCS - generated EFs in vivo using deep brain stimulation (DBS) electrodes that were already implanted in patients with Parkinson's disease.

Zaira Cattaneo at the University of Milano - Bicocca in Italy and colleagues used transcranial magnetic stimulation to block areas of the brain while 16 volunteers without the condition identified whether two images of a face were the same or different.

«By taking the brain signals generated when Bill attempts to move, and using them to control the stimulation of his arm and hand, he was able to perform personal functions that were important to him,» said Bolu Ajiboye, assistant professor of biomedical engineering and lead study author.

Last spring Deisseroth's group published an optogenetics study that helped to elucidate the workings of deep - brain stimulation, which uses electrodes implanted deep in the brain to alleviate the abnormal movements of Parkinson's disease.

Deep brain stimulation is used in Parkinson's disease to trigger brain cell activity and prevent the abnormal signalling that causes debilitating tremors, but placing the electrodes required is highly invasive.

The 18 - week study of 318 healthy young adults found that combining physical exercise and mild electric brain stimulation with computer - based cognitive training promoted skill learning significantly more than using cognitive training alone.

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.

These tools will advance fundamental brain research and potentially lead to «deep brain stimulation» treatments used for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's patients.

Neuroscientists have also developed transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), which uses magnets held against the scalp to induce electric fields inside the brain, turning on neurons.

Pezaris has also enlisted the help of Emad Eskandar, a neurosurgeon at MGH who specializes in deep - brain stimulation, which has been used to treat Parkinson's disease and monitor neural activity in people suffering from seizures.

For the present study, researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to assess brain response to sensory stimulation in 35 women with fibromyalgia and 25 healthy, age - matched controls.

A study, published today in Science Advances, found that when scientists used noninvasive brain stimulation to disrupt a brain region called the temporoparietal junction (TPJ), people appeared less able to see things from the point of view of their future selves or of another person, and consequently were less likely to share money with others and more inclined to opt for immediate cash instead of waiting for a larger bounty at a later date.

For instance, zapping the temporal lobe using deep - brain stimulation can improve spatial memory, and using a powerful magnet to alter activity in the right temporoparietal junction can make our moral compass go haywire, causing behaviors we think of as immoral to become permissible.

«If we get better at mapping the brain areas responsible, it will lead to more precision in the use of technologies that may repair these damaged connections, like deep brain stimulation.»

Specifically, they have been looking at which brain regions need to be connected to the electrode used for deep brain stimulation.

Called repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), the noninvasive technique uses electromagnets to create localized electrical currents in the brain.

Working with colleagues from Harvard Medical School and Würzburg, researchers from Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin have been examining the use of deep brain stimulation in the treatment of Parkison's disease in an attempt to optimize treatment effectiveness.

Unlike its competitors, which use cranial electrotherapy or transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), Thync doesn't directly target the brain.

Madhavan said they use use noninvasive tools, such as transcranial magnetic stimulation, to compare the excitability of the affected and unaffected areas of the brain.

But unlike some other experimental treatments for spinal cord injury, deep brain stimulation has already cleared the hurdle of FDA approval for use in movement disorders.

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

Scientists enrolled patients with Parkinson's disease who were scheduled to have deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery, a commonly used procedure that involves placing electrodes into the brain.

Among the awardees are researchers working on ultrasound methods for measuring brain activity, and the use of deep brain stimulation to treat traumatic brain injuries.

He has suggested that a technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), which uses magnetic fields to disrupt neuronal firing, can knock out a normal person's conceptual brain machinery, temporarily rendering him savantlike.

1987 In the first reported therapeutic use of high - frequency deep - brain stimulation (DBS), French doctors implanted electrodes in a patient's brain to send impulses to a region associated with Parkinson's disease.

This noninvasive system for leg muscle stimulation is a promising method and is an advance of our current brain - controlled systems that use virtual reality or a robotic exoskeleton.»

It's possible,» he adds, «that the brain would get used to the stimulation — just as it adjusts to medications — and also become less responsive over time, but we are hopeful that continued stimulation might improve symptoms.»

The technique used is called deep brain stimulation, and is already used to treat the tremors and movement problems of some people with severe Parkinson's disease.

Using magnetic stimulation to temporarily disrupt normal processing of the areas of the human brain involved in the production of actions of human participants, it is demonstrated that these areas are also involved in the understanding of actions.

The device uses electrical stimulation to block the pain signals from reaching the brain.

The reason for using this technique (called continuous theta - burst stimulation) in general is that it makes it possible to determine which brain areas perform which functions.

Since the triggers of obesity lie in the brain, neurosurgeons at West Virginia University Health Sciences Center are attempting to rewire those triggers directly using deep brain stimulation (DBS).