Sentences with phrase «with electrodes implanted in their brains»

Studies on people with electrodes implanted in their brains suggest brain waves, and their interactions, help enable emotion, language, vision and more.

Scientists at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn sparked a media frenzy two years ago when they demonstrated that rats with electrodes implanted in their brains could be steered like remote - controlled toy cars through an obstacle course.

sparked a media frenzy two years ago when they demonstrated that rats with electrodes implanted in their brains could be steered like remote - controlled toy cars through an obstacle course.

Since then more than 100 of his epileptic patients with electrodes implanted in their brains for diagnostic purposes have volunteered as subjects for basic research.

Not exact matches

Suthana and her colleagues worked with 25 people with epilepsy who had electrodes already implanted in the brain for controlling seizures.

Then, Feng recognized a novel opportunity to directly measure whether tDCS generates EFs in deep brain areas among patients with movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease, who are often treated by implanting DBS electrodes.

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.

Josef Parvizi at Stanford University in California and his colleagues implanted electrodes in the brains of two people with epilepsy to help treat their seizures.

The prosthesis proposed by John Pezaris, an assistant in neuroscience at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston — at least as it's envisioned at this early stage — would be worn like a pair of eyeglasses, with digital cameras over a person's eyes that connect to an array of electrodes implanted in the brain.

Merging man and machine The spectacular successes of brain implants in primates has paved the way for new human trials, including one at Brown University, where neuroscientist John Donoghue is moving ahead with BrainGate, a minuscule array of tiny, spikelike electrodes implanted in the motor cortex.

Schroeder and colleagues have caught this action in monkeys» brains, and more recently, in people implanted with electrodes as part of epilepsy treatment.

Miller and colleagues saw this push - and - pull action in the brains of monkeys with implanted electrodes as the animals completed a tricky memory task, one that required the monkeys to hold several pieces of information in their minds at the same time.

1987 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 diseasIn 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 diseasin a patient's brain to send impulses to a region associated with Parkinson's disease.

Besides, the potential for healing is too great to ignore — starting with a better implant for those who suffer from Parkinson's, a neurodegenerative disease already treated with electrodes in the brain.

A brain implant with mobile electrodes that can seek out and connect to individual neurons in the brain has enabled monkeys to regain control of a paralysed wrist.

Redish and Steiner implanted minute electrodes into a brain region associated with regret in monkeys and humans, called the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC).

They took advantage of the fact that some people with Parkinson's disease get electrodes surgically implanted in their brain stem to control their symptoms.

But neither brain scans nor clinical studies of patients with implanted electrodes explained exactly how the cells in these patches work.

Both electrical mapping with the implanted electrodes and the more conventional functional whole - brain imaging in a magnetic scanner identified a cluster of regions in the FFA in both cortical hemispheres of Blackwell's brain that responded strongly to faces.

But neither data from brain scanners — functional magnetic resonance imaging — nor clinical studies of patients with implanted electrodes have explained exactly how the cells in these face patches work.

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

In an initial procedure, Dr. Elisevich surgically implanted electrodes into her brain to initiate the monitoring of seizures with a continuous inpatient video electroencephalographic (vEEG).

Compared with stimulation from traditional cochlear implant electrodes, the light produced more precise neural activity in the brain stem, similar to normal hearing.

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 deviceIn 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 devicein Nature outlining remarkable progress in picking up brain signals with implanted electrodes and using those signals to control a range of devicein picking up brain signals with implanted electrodes and using those signals to control a range of devices.

To answer this question, the neuroscientists reproduced the BA / DA task with people who have electrodes directly implanted in their brains for medical reasons.

Most neuroscientists believe that conversing with the brain in its own language will require implanted electrodes.

HAVING electrodes implanted in your brain is a drastic measure, but for many people with Parkinson's disease, deep brain stimulation offers a new lease of life.

In 1964, José Delgado, a neuroscientist from Yale University, stood in a Spanish bullring as a bull with a radio - equipped array of electrodes, or «stimoceiver,» implanted in its brain charged toward hiIn 1964, José Delgado, a neuroscientist from Yale University, stood in a Spanish bullring as a bull with a radio - equipped array of electrodes, or «stimoceiver,» implanted in its brain charged toward hiin a Spanish bullring as a bull with a radio - equipped array of electrodes, or «stimoceiver,» implanted in its brain charged toward hiin its brain charged toward him.

«Monthly brain cycles predict seizures in patients with epilepsy: Implanted electrodes reveal long - term patterns of seizure risk.»

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.

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.

As of 2010, 30,000 people have had electrodes implanted in their brains to help them cope with Parkinson's disease.

Kahana and his colleagues have long conducted research with epilepsy patients who have electrodes implanted in their brains as part of their treatment.

Scientists reported Wednesday in the journal Nature that they have been able to implant a chip in Burkhart's brain that sends signals to an array of 130 electrodes embedded in a «sleeve» he wears on his arm that has given him the ability to move his hand with significant accuracy.

Researchers implanted electrodes in a master monkey's brain and an unconscious avatar monkey's spine, allowing the master to move a joystick with the avatar's hand.