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If you are thinking about jumping onto the worrisome trend of at home DIY brain stimulation you may want to think twice about it as scientists and experts are sounding the alarm and sending out a very serious warning. Some studies have shown that brain stimulation may hold promise for some people with depression which …
Just as in the sci-fi classic The Matrix feeding knowledge directly in to the brain could soon take as much effort as falling to sleep, according to researchers from HRL Laboratories, as published in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Researchers have claimed to been able to develop a simulator that can feed information directly …
Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge recently published a study in the journal Cell, the on how they tested a new temporally interfering (TI) stimulation method in brains of mice. Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge recently published a study in the journal Cell, the on how they tested a …
Brain stimulation in Autism therapy may restore social behaviours. Scientist are investigating if it is feasible to use neuromodulation to treat autistic children afters a new study suggests that some impairments, such as social impairments, can be corrected using brain stimulation. The research is published as the cover story for the December issue of Nature …
Arizona State University (US) team pioneers a new transcranial pulsed ultrasound method that offers a potential non-invasive treatment approach for brain injury and disease. While other brain stimulation techniques involve surgical implantation or have significant adverse profile risks. William “Jamie” Tyler, from Arizona State University (Arizona, USA), and colleagues have pioneered a non-invasive transcranial pulsed …
Deep brain stimulation (DBS), an implanted device that sends electrical impulses to specific parts of the brain, holds promise in alleviating epileptic seizures. Affecting an estimated 50 million people worldwide, epilepsy is a neurological disorder involving recurrent seizures, which can interrupt consciousness and cause convulsions, confusion or sensory disturbances. Robert Fisher, from Stanford University School …