Sentences with phrase «using electrical brain stimulation»

«There are too many folks out there right now who are using electrical brain stimulation in a cavalier way,» says Michael Weisend, at Rio Grande Neurosciences in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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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.

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.

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.

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

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

Lieber and colleagues also demonstrated that the syringe - injectable mesh electronics could be used to deliver electrical stimulation to the brain over three months or more.

Researchers have developed a method to measure how the brain responds to electrical stimulation and use the response to maximize efficacy of deep brain stimulation (DBS)-- a therapy that has been successfully used to treat advanced stages of Parkinson's disease.

This ongoing study, the PACt - MD study, combines brain training exercises and brain stimulation, using a mild electrical current to stimulate brain cells and improve learning and memory.

Another technique dubbed magnetoencephalography (MEG) maps magnetic fields in the brain produced by electrical signals; a similar approach, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), selectively stimulates parts of the brain and is already being used to treat severe depression, migraine headaches and other conditions.

Despite the tradeoffs, one thing is certain: human research is key to our understanding of how people perceive electrical stimulation of the brain, and how we may use it to restore tactile sensation to users and help them drink that morning cup of coffee on their own.

By using electrical stimulation, the scientists show that the blood pressure increase comes from the muscle itself, since the brain is not telling the leg to contract and the pressure still increases.

In fact, some emerging therapies for depression use electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve to trigger changes 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.

ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY Also known as ECT, this highly controversial technique uses low voltage electrical stimulation of the brain to treat some forms of major depression, acute mania, and some forms of schizophrenia.

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