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...
by Chinese Academy of Sciences A, an illustration of SOAP stimulating a neuron with an ultrasound focus delivered via the optoacoustic effect. B, the lateral profile of OFUS without and with presence of a piece of mouse skull. C, representative calcium images of cultured neurons before and after OFUS stimulation. The right panel shows the...
by University of Calgary Credit: CC0 Public Domain University of Calgary researchers have shown that the antibiotic D-Cycloserine (DCS) increases the effectiveness of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) for people with major depressive disorder (MDD). TMS is a non-invasive, well-recognized therapy for people who have treatment resistant depression. Even so, it doesn’t work for everyone. Researchers...
by University of Birmingham Training performance (n¯) for each training day, for the SHAM and ACTIVE groups, within each AGE level. Error bars represent the standard error of the mean. Credit: Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience (2022). DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2022.1009262 Older people may be able to boost their working memory with a new approach that couples online therapeutic games...
XI’AN JIAOTONG-LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY IMAGE: RESEARCHERS AT XI’AN JIAOTONG-LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HAVE SHOWN THAT BRAIN STIMULATION CAN BE ENHANCED BY NON-INVASIVELY DELIVERED NANOPARTICLES. THIS CAN AID RECOVERY AFTER ISCHEMIC STROKE IN AN ANIMAL MODEL. CREDIT: PUBLIC DOMAIN In a recent study, researchers from Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and other universities in China have reported that brain stimulation combined...
Diana Kwon Different kinds of memory are controlled by different parts of the brain. Credit: BSIP/UIG/Getty People’s ability to remember fades with age — but one day, researchers might be able to use a simple, drug-free method to buck this trend. In a study published on 22 August in Nature Neuroscience1, Robert Reinhart, a cognitive neuroscientist...
by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne A visual summary of the study. Credit: Pablo Maceira-Elvira (EPFL) Even though we don’t think about it, every movement we make in our daily life essentially consists of a sequence of smaller actions in a specific order. The only time we realize this is when we have to learn...
