by Journal of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics A new treatment for chronic insomnia, transcranial alternating current stimulation, has been found to be effective in a study published in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. Not all adults with chronic insomnia respond to the recommended therapeutic options of cognitive behavioral therapy and approved hypnotic drugs. Transcranial alternating current stimulation may...
MEDGADGET EDITORSMEDICINE, NEUROLOGY, NEUROSURGERY, REHAB The MemorEM system from NeuroEM Therapeutics, a company based in Phoenix, Arizona, delivers transcranial electromagnetic treatment, or TEMT, to the brains of patients in two one-hour sessions each day for two months. This involves propagating electromagnetic waves toward β-amyloid aggregates that seem to be responsible for the symptoms of Alzheimer’s....
Memory and higher-order cognitive functions improve; neuro-stimulation fails to enhance training benefits CENTER FOR BRAINHEALTH Researchers at the Center for BrainHealth®, part of The University of Texas at Dallas, investigated the effects of combining two non-pharmacological interventions for adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI): eight semi-weekly sessions of Strategic Memory Advanced Reasoning Training (SMART), a cognitive training program shown to improve reasoning and ability to extract the bottom-line message from complex...
Researchers Lauren Krupp, MD, and Leigh Charvet, PhD, of the Multiple Sclerosis Comprehensive Care Center led the new study People with multiple sclerosis (MS) who underwent a non-invasive form of electrical brain stimulation experienced significant reductions in fatigue, a common and often debilitating symptom of the disease, according to new research from the Multiple...
Noninvasive brain stimulation and physical therapy — alone or in combination — improve some measures of walking ability in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD), concludes a clinical trial in the American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, the official journal of the Association of Academic Physiatrists. The journal is published by Wolters Kluwer. Transcranial direct current...
Transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS)—a non-invasive technique for applying electric current to areas of the brain—may be growing in popularity, but new research suggests that it probably does not add any meaningful benefit to cognitive training. The study is published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. “Our findings suggest that applying...
IN BRIEF Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has great potential to help those with neurological diseases. It may also help enhance humans and our intelligence, and serve as a checkpoint on the road toward Elon Musk’s neural lace. STIMULATING THE BRAIN We are now poised at a time in history when brain-computer interfaces (BCI) are...
IN BRIEF Researchers stimulated the prefrontal cortex of comatose people with minimal consciousness, prompting them to respond to commands, recognize items, and even communicate. This work may lead to a communication device for people with consciousness disorders. WAKING THE BRAIN After experiencing a severe brain injury, people can slip into a coma. Some of these...
