Sentences with phrase «with electrical stimulation»

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.

Elizabeth Rhodes, Registered Veterinary Technician at VCA Woodland South and certified in Canine Rehabilitation, helps with Electrical Stimulation and physical therapy.

My wife will probably kill me, but given that I mentioned I do my exercise with electrical stimulation, it is conceivably possible that you could put the negative electrodes on one person, and the positive electrodes on another person.

Dr. Daniel Hsu, who practices acupuncture in New York City, said acupuncture — whether through traditional needling or with electrical stimulation — works in two ways.

Blanke and his collaborators in Switzerland have explored the neural basis of OBEs by showing that they are reliably associated with lesions in the right TPJ region [113] and that they can be reliably elicited with electrical stimulation of this region in a patient with epilepsy.

Alternative therapies such as acupuncture and electroacupuncture (EA, which combines acupuncture with electrical stimulation) are effective in reducing pain and, possibly, alcohol - withdrawal symptoms.

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.

«We have been working to develop new lasing media, using chemically synthesized quantum dots, although it had been widely believed that quantum dot lasing with electrical stimulation is simply impossible,» he said.

Since we could turn on the emotions with electrical stimulation, for my dissertation I decided to study rats for the anger and rage system already documented in cats.

«Tickling the brain with electrical stimulation improves memory.»

Not exact matches

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.

Patients with SCI had less excitable nerves with altered responses to electrical stimulation, indicating nerve dysfunction.

Patients with SCI underwent 30 minutes of electrical nerve stimulation therapy five days a week for six weeks on one limb.

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.

This study will include 36 people with spinal cord injuries who will be treated with epidural stimulation — a technique in which a device is used to apply electrical current to the spinal cord.

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

«Thus, direct induction of sleep spindles — for example, via transcranial electrical stimulation — perhaps combined with targeted memory reactivation, may enable us to further improve memory performance while we sleep.»

Electrical stimulation will be administered in combination with motor training of the ankle, as a major problem for people trying to walk after stroke is an inability to flex the ankle on their affected side.

As much as Alicia A.'s life has improved from sessions with Deisseroth, the electrical stimulation is often uncomfortable, and her treatment requires constant monitoring.

With a combination of drug therapy and electrical stimulation administered via the e-dura, the rats were able to walk again.

A volunteer models the noninvasive, electrical stimulation device used to help patients with Parkinson's disease.

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.»

Harkema and her team first worked with Summers on locomotor training, without electrical stimulation.

As before, the memory for this room was awakened in a new context by light stimulation, and simultaneously paired with an electrical shock.

«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.

Four people with paraplegia are able to voluntarily move previously paralyzed muscles as a result of a novel therapy that involves electrical stimulation of the spinal cord, according to a study funded in part by the National Institutes of Health and the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation.

«Patients with severe PTSD are thought to have a hyperactive amygdala, which electrical stimulation might be able to inhibit.

Now, in this follow - up study, Claudia Angeli, Ph.D., assistant professor at the University of Louisville's Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center and her research colleagues report that three additional patients with paralysis have recovered voluntary muscle control following electrical stimulation of the spine.

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.

Innovative studies are also being conducted with Ekso (Ekso Bionics), the bionic exoskeletal device, the LokomatPro v6 (Hocoma), a robotic treadmill training device, and with functional electrical stimulation.

For example, we are using electrical spinal stimulation synchronized with residual muscle activity or movement in order to produce lasting improvements in hand and arm function after spinal cord injury.

In addition, Kessler is partnering with the University of Louisville to investigate epidural stimulation, in which a chip is implanted to deliver an electrical current through the spine to trigger walking.

The localizations were compared with each other, with the cortical anatomical landmarks, and in 1 patient with invasive electrical cortical stimulation (ECS).

Primary responsibility will be to work under direction of the Principal Investigator (PI) to complete testing and training protocols; evaluate and research participants for interventions, working with neuromuscular electrical stimulation and exercise using upper - and lower - extremity exoskeleton devices and treadmill training; and perform other related research tasks.

The work was conducted by AMBER and RCSI TERG post-doctoral researcher, Dr Alan Ryan, first author on the paper with Dr Cathal Kearney, an AMBER senior research fellow and lecturer in RCSI in partnership with multi-disciplinary team of researchers based in RCSI, Trinity and Professor Katja Schenke - Layland's laboratory in Eberhard Karls University Tübingen in Germany, where the electrical stimulation research was carried out.

We adopted a fixed lead - time of 20 ms because this value corresponds with the typical latency of saccades evoked by electrical stimulation at the recording sites.

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His doctor diagnosed him with Peyronie's disease — a rarity for such a young man — and set him on a course of treatments that has included electrical stimulation and medicines to dissolve scar tissue

For example, electrical stimulation of this nerve has been shown to reduce the rate of epileptic seizures and help with depressive symptoms.

These options include over-the-counter medications such as acetaminophen (Tylenol) or ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin), physical therapy, injections with local anesthetics, electrical stimulation, acupuncture and meditation.

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.

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

As for the Electrical Muscle Stimulation device, I can't speak to that... I have never heard of its effect specifically on women with DR.. It's something that you should talk with your doc about and look into the research.