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...
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Classical Conditioning Through Brain Stimulation
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...
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Non-invasive brain stimulation can regulate autonomic responses, improve oxygen saturation in COVID-19 patients
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...
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Using piezoelectric nanoparticles to provide deep brain stimulation
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,...
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Brain stimulation found to improve reading ability in macular degeneration patients
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...
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Optically-generated focused ultrasound for noninvasive brain stimulation with ultrahigh precision
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...
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Researchers supercharge brain stimulation by repurposing an antibiotic
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...
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Therapeutic games and brain stimulation mitigates cognitive decline in older adults
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...
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Nanoparticles can improve stroke recovery by enhancing brain stimulation, study shows
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...
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Brain stimulation leads to long-lasting improvements in memory
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...