Sentences with phrase «why brain stimulation»

«These results suggest that brain networks might be used to help us better understand why brain stimulation works and to improve therapy by identifying the best place to stimulate the brain for each individual patient and given disease,» says senior author Alvaro Pascual - Leone, MD, PhD, the Director of the Berenson - Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation at BIDMC and Professor of Neurology at HMS.

«The idea for why brain stimulation might work when training falls short is because you're directly influencing brain plasticity in the regions that are relevant to working memory task performance.

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Kadosh receives regular e-mails from people asking for advice on brain stimulation, or for explanations as to why it didn't work for them.

It was already known that people affected by Parkinson's disease, when subjected to deep brain stimulation, gained weight, but it was less clear why that was so.

To work out why stimulation has this effect, Damiaan Denys and Martijn Figee at the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and colleagues recorded neural activity in people with electrodes implanted into a part of the brain called the nucleus accumbens.

Deep brain stimulation helps some people with obsessive - compulsive disorder (OCD), but no one was quite sure why it is effective.

The findings help explain why the neural circuit identified is a promising target for additional treatment development, including brain stimulation therapies.

(In return, the brain receives significant stimulation from each muscle cell, or fiber — the reason why movement is a powerful brain therapy.)

Dogs have something in their brains that responds purely through the stimulation of hair follicles which is why a good tummy tickle is irresistible to most dogs.