by Eric W. Dolan Enhance your understanding of the human mind and mental health trends. Click here to follow PsyPost on LinkedIn.A recent study found that unsupervised home-use brain stimulation combined with digital psychological interventions was not more effective than placebo treatments in alleviating symptoms of major depression. This finding challenges the current understanding of...
By Rich Haridy For the first time researchers have found a way to enhance a person’s susceptibility to hypnosis Depositphotos A person’s susceptibility to hypnosis has long been considered a pretty static trait. You may be highly hypnotizable, or you may be part of the nearly 25% of people who can’t really be hypnotized at all....
Peer-Reviewed Publication WILEY Most people with schizophrenia have extensive impairment of memory, including prospective memory, which is the ability to remember to perform future activities. Results from a randomized clinical trial published in Neuropsychopharmacology Reports indicate that repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), a non-invasive method that uses alternating magnetic fields to induce an electric current...
by Shinshu University Patient with Parkinsonian gait disturbances seeking brain stimulation to improve walking dynamics. A sinusoidal waveform was utilized to delivery electrical current on the cerebellum. The initiation of each current coincided with the moment of heel contact on the affected side during a self-paced four minutes gait. Credit: Ippei Nojima Gait-related disturbances adversely...
Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW June 30, 2023 High-definition cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation (HD C-tDCS) is a promising approach for treating acute ischemic stroke (AIS), results of a pilot study suggest. Investigators explored the feasibility and safety of the use of HD C-tDCS for patients presenting in the emergency department (ED) of a level 1 stroke center by...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – LOS ANGELES HEALTH SCIENCES Highly targeted electrical stimulation to the brain showed promise as a new treatment for the most common type of stroke, according to a pilot study led by UCLA Health researchers. The study is the first in humans to test the feasibility of using a targeted type of electrical current, called...
Summary: Brain activity can be conditioned through external brain stimulation, researchers discovered. The findings have implications for using TMS as a therapeutic approach, potentially leading to more straightforward treatment for conditions such as Parkinson’s disease and depression. Source: RUB Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, have successfully implemented a special form of classical conditioning. They showed in a group of...
by D’Or Institute for Research and Education Credit: CC0 Public Domain Among the health problems developed or aggravated by COVID-19, those that affect neurological and respiratory functions draw special attention from specialists. Considering several studies that show the adverse effects of COVID-19 on human autonomic functions, which are those regulated by the autonomic nervous system...
by Bob Yirka, Medical Xpress Effect of NO in neural stimulation. a, Ca2+ influx fluorescence image of differentiated SH-SY5Y cells with Fluo-4 AM and nanogenerators (with and without BNN6) at 100 μg mL-1 concentration. The fluorescence image was taken 10 sec after the US treatment (10 sec, 0.4 W cm-2, Sonoporator, plane wave transducer module, 1 MHz,...
by University of Waterloo The effect of tDCS on reading accuracy for Chinese characters (left plot) and English words (right plot). Sentences were presented one word or character at a time (stimulus inserts). Participants were tested before, during, 5 minutes after, and 30 minutes after application of tDCS. The Y-axis denotes the accuracy difference between...
