How one woman learned to
use the electrodes implanted in her brain as an extension of her nervous system.
Deep - brain stimulation
uses electrodes implanted in the brain to manipulate neurons responsible for tremors associated with Parkinson's disease.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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.
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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 diseas
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 diseas
in a patient's
brain to send impulses to a region associated with Parkinson's disease.
Intracortical BCIs such as BrainGate
use a tiny array of
implanted electrodes to pick up the electrical activity of neurons
in the motor cortex of the
brain.
The researchers enrolled epilepsy patients at Wake Forest Baptist who were participating
in a diagnostic
brain - mapping procedure that
used surgically
implanted electrodes placed
in various parts of the
brain to pinpoint the origin of the patients» seizures.
In July he and his team published a paper in Nature outlining remarkable progress in picking up brain signals with implanted electrodes and using those signals to control a range of device
In July he and his team published a paper
in Nature outlining remarkable progress in picking up brain signals with implanted electrodes and using those signals to control a range of device
in Nature outlining remarkable progress
in picking up brain signals with implanted electrodes and using those signals to control a range of device
in picking up
brain signals with
implanted electrodes and
using those signals to control a range of devices.
Using an array of hair - thin
electrodes implanted in his
brain, a 25 - year - old quadriplegic man was able to operate a computer, open and close a prosthetic hand, and manipulate a robotic arm just by thinking about it, according to a new study.
Using brain data crowdsourced from 22 epilepsy patients with
implanted electrodes, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania led by Danielle Bassett have developed a series of algorithms that can predict where
in the
brain a seizure will originate and which groups of neurons it will likely spread to as it grows.
In 2008, Andrew Schwartz of the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania published a landmark paper describing how two rhesus macaques learned to feed themselves marshmallows and fruit using a crude robotic limb controlled by electrodes implanted in their brains (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature06996
In 2008, Andrew Schwartz of the University of Pittsburgh
in Pennsylvania published a landmark paper describing how two rhesus macaques learned to feed themselves marshmallows and fruit using a crude robotic limb controlled by electrodes implanted in their brains (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature06996
in Pennsylvania published a landmark paper describing how two rhesus macaques learned to feed themselves marshmallows and fruit
using a crude robotic limb controlled by
electrodes implanted in their brains (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature06996
in their
brains (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature06996).
Electrodes implanted in the
brain that electrically stimulate specific regions are now being tested as treatments for depression and other mental illnesses; conceivably this technology also could be
used to induce mystical states.
Research is currently underway on how
electrodes implanted in the
brain could be
used in the treatment of various diseases, such as epilepsy or Parkinson's.
Surgery can be
used to temporarily
implant electrodes on or
in the
brain to precisely define the part of the
brain causing seizures and to confirm what neurological functions that part of the
brain performs.