Sentences with phrase «using electrodes»

The experiments involve placing dogs under anesthesia and then using electrodes for high - frequency stimulation at various places on their spinal cords to induce coughing.

As the subjects were doing the exercises, researchers measured their muscle activity using electrodes that detect the electrical impulses sent to the muscle (which is, put simply, a way to measure how hard a muscle is working).

The American Council on Exercise (ACE) recently conducted a study which measured muscle activity during different ab exercises, using electrodes to measure muscle contraction during 16 exercises, including the traditional crunch.

Perforated patch recordings were made on either PLE / mCherry expressing neurons expressing neurons or adjacent non-expressing neurons using electrodes with tip resistances of 4 — 5 MΩ immediately after circulating the ACSF with CM - MK801.

The BST Device, using electrodes...

Those are using electrodes to stimulate the brain so you can hear digitally.»

They injected variable frequency currents into the ground and measured resulting voltage potentials using electrodes embedded in the ground surface.

The first meaning is usually intended in literature that deals with rats or mice, while the second meaning is usually intended in studies of human EEG recorded using electrodes glued to the scalp.

In humans, because invasive studies are not ethically permissible except in some neurological patients, by far the largest number of EEG studies have been conducted using electrodes glued to the scalp.

In animals, EEG signals are usually recorded using electrodes implanted in the brain; the majority of theta studies have involved electrodes implanted in the hippocampus.

In contrast to the situation in rats, where long periods of theta oscillations are easily observed using electrodes implanted at many sites, theta has been difficult to pin down in primates, even when intracortical electrodes have been available.

The technique uses transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), in which weak electrical currents are applied to the scalp using electrodes.

Using electrodes implanted in the brains of three people to treat their epilepsy, Edward Chang and his colleagues at the University of California mapped brain activity in each volunteer's motor cortex as they pronounced words in American English.

Other scientists have connected the brains of rats and monkeys, and transmitted brain signals from a human to a rat, using electrodes inserted into animals» brains.

Lake and his team built Myo using electrodes that work without making direct contact with the skin, unlike medical electrodes.

The newer, brain - controlled versions of these devices work in one of two ways; either through an electroencephalogram (EEG) cap that detects neural activity using electrodes placed on the scalp or a device planted directly into the brain.

But Boyden still plans to try light therapy in people, as well as to induce gamma waves in other areas using electrodes.

The researchers also recorded brain activity using the electrodes they'd placed on Blackwell's brain with a technique called electrocorticography.

But it wasn't until May this year that researchers measured the firing of mirror neurons in humans directly, using electrodes implanted in the brains of epileptic patients awaiting surgery (Current Biology, vol 20, p 750).

This can be done directly by measuring brainwaves using electrodes, but the results are very imprecise.

Using electrodes implanted in the brains of three people to treat their epilepsy, Edward Chang and colleagues at the University of California in San Francisco mapped brain activity as the volunteers spoke in English.

Bottjer collaborated with lead author Jennifer Achiro, a graduate student at USC, to examine the activity of neurons in songbirds brains using electrodes to record the activity of individual neurons.

The theory also suggested that using electrodes made from different types of metals would create an inverse magnetocapacitance effect, one in which anti-parallel spins create more capacitance than parallel spins.

Using electrodes made of iron - cobalt - boron, they showed that by flipping spins from anti-parallel to parallel, they could increase capacitance in experiments by 150 percent.

The researchers have focussed their attention on the activity patterns of 237 neurons that had been recorded some years previously using electrodes implanted in the frontal lobes of two rhesus monkeys.

They plan to do this by activating the neurons in these regions using electrodes and measuring the impact on learning outcomes.

Using electrodes placed on the scalp and powered by a 9 - volt battery, a tDCS unit delivers weak constant current through the skull to the brain tissue below.

With that method, researchers monitor electrical brain activity using electrodes.

Ranasinghe previously created digital lemonade using electrodes and coloured lights to trick people's taste buds.

Using electrodes, European researchers in 2015 measured the facial movements of volunteers who sniffed sweat samples of people who had watched either pleasant or scary videos — happy - go - lucky scenes from Disney's The Jungle Book versus hair - raising clips from Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.

«We're using electrodes to mimic their interactions,» says El - Naggar.

It is done using electrodes placed in the brain, which recognise specific patterns of electric activity that occur when a person thinks about moving.

In contrast to invasive approaches using electrodes, Daniel Huber's team specializes in optical techniques for imaging and stimulating brain activity.

Halo Sport uses electrodes to stimulate the brain's motor cortex, which controls planning and voluntary movements.

To discover why some people can sleep through noise while others awake at the faintest disruption, Jeffrey Ellenbogen and colleagues at Harvard Medical School used electrodes to monitor the brain activity of 12 people while they slept in a pitch - black, soundproof room.

Neurosurgeons use electrode grids to identify which areas of the brain are diseased in order to avoid damaging or removing healthy, functional tissue during operations.

Peter Brown at University College London used electrodes to generate a small electrical current in the brains of 14 healthy volunteers.

They used electrodes to measure the sensitivity of rats» brains to reward activity.

Lionel Velly, an anesthesiologist at Mediterranean University in Marseille, France, ran an experiment in which he used the electrodes in the other direction, to record electrical activity in the brain.

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.

Standard cochlear implants function by stimulating nerves using an electrode placed inside the cochlea, a tiny spiral cavity inside the ear.

To track how brainwaves change during learning, Ann Graybiel and Mark Howe at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology used electrodes to analyse brainwaves in the ventromedial striatum of rats that were being taught to navigate a maze.

A surgeon uses an electrode to stimulate selected neurons in the brain of a woman with Parkinson's disease.

Schiff and his colleagues used an electrode implanted in the thalamus to restore some brain activity to a patient who had been in a minimally conscious state for 21 years, they reported last year, though the change did not bring about real - world improvements.

Next, Deisseroth required someone skilled at patch clamping, a technique that uses an electrode to record ions passing through cells.

How one woman learned to use the electrodes implanted in her brain as an extension of her nervous system.

She and her graduate student Sebastian Moeller used electrodes to prod neurons in specific face patches, while observing the rest of the brain with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

Steve Chang and his colleagues from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, used electrodes to directly record neuronal activity in three areas of the brain prefrontal cortex that are known to be involved in social decision - making, while monkeys performed reward - related tasks.

When they use electrodes to record the activity patterns of individual neurons, the patterns often appear chaotic and difficult to interpret.

Deep - brain stimulation uses electrodes implanted in the brain to manipulate neurons responsible for tremors associated with Parkinson's disease.