Sentences with phrase «with electrical brain stimulation»

Researchers have discovered that synchronizing brain waves with electrical brain stimulation can improve short - term working memory.

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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.

02:30 — Aims to reduce the boring and repetitive nature of brain rehabilitation programs through VR, with sensory feedback and electrical stimulation.

Tickling the brain with low - intensity electrical stimulation in a specific area can improve verbal short - term memory.

«Tickling the brain with electrical stimulation improves memory.»

To amplify slow waves and get them into optimal sync with spindles, researchers plan to apply electrical brain stimulation to the frontal lobe in future experiments.

A brain - computer interface with recording electrodes under his skull, and a functional electrical stimulation (FES) system * activating his arm and hand, reconnect his brain to paralyzed muscles.

>> Nature podcast: Meet the scientist who hopes to treat dyscalculia with mild electrical brain stimulation.

Implanted devices send targeted electrical stimulation to the nervous system to interfere with abnormal brain activity, and it is commonly assumed that neurons are the only important brain cells that need to be stimulated by these devices.

We are also dedicated not only to enabling control over computers or robotic assistive devices, but — for people with spinal cord injury or stroke — working toward the goal of reconnecting brain to limb, allowing the powerful intracortical signals to activate fully implanted functional electrical stimulation devices, and re-enabling intuitive movement of one's own arm and hand.»

«We measured the electrical activity of groups of nerve cells within the subthalamic nucleus in patients with Parkinson's disease, who had recently been treated with deep brain stimulation.

Patients already are being treated with some success by deep - brain electrical stimulation of nerve cells.

By testing cycling time to task failure (TTF) in a group of 12 active participants in a placebo controlled study, Dr Mauger discovered that stimulating the brain by passing a mild electrical current (transcranial direct current stimulation or tDCS) over the scalp to stimulate it increased the activity of the area associated with muscle contraction.

When the scientists tried to trigger LTP in these brain slices with electrical stimulation or chemicals, they found that methods that fired up cellular pathways involving the molecule cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) didn't work.

A similar approach is employed with cochlear implants for hearing loss which translate sounds into electrical stimulation of the inner ear and, over time, the brain learns to interpret these inputs as sound.

A new study authored by Marc Schieber, M.D., Ph.D., and Kevin Mazurek, Ph.D. with the University of Rochester Medical Center Department of Neurology and the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience, which appears in the journal Neuron, shows that very low levels of electrical stimulation delivered directly to an area of the brain responsible for motor function can instruct an appropriate response or action, essentially replacing the signals we would normally receive from the parts of the brain that process what we hear, see, and feel.

Although other research has demonstrated that brain stimulation with electrical current or electromagnetic waves can affect brain activity, it's remained controversial because it's not been reproducible.

Early sessions with electrical stimulation give a great deal of feedback to the brain and exercise the muscle while it doesn't get the signal from the brain on its own.