Gina Arata was in her final semester of college, preparing to apply to law school, when she was involved in an automobile accident in 2001. Her ability to focus was so impaired by the injuries that she struggled at her work sorting mail. “I couldn’t remember anything. My left foot dropped, so I’d trip over…
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Temporal Interference Brain Stimulation Promising for Dementia Treatment
Researchers at Imperial College London are leading the development and testing of a novel brain stimulation technique that may offer an alternative therapy for diseases of the brain like Alzheimer’s and the memory loss that goes along with it. The non-invasive technique, known as temporal interference (TI), delivers electrical fields to the brain via electrodes…
Memory Performance Improves with Deep Brain Stimulation
New research led by scientists from UCLA Health and Tel Aviv University provides the first physiological evidence from within the human brain to support the prevailing scientific theory regarding how the brain consolidates memories during sleep. Furthermore, the researchers discovered that targeted deep-brain stimulation during a critical time in the sleep cycle appeared to improve…
Lightning Could Pose Danger to Deep Brain Stimulation Patients
Patients who receive deep brain stimulation are routinely cautioned that their neurostimulators (also known as implantable pulse generators, or IPGs) may dysfunction when confronted by electromagnetic fields that can be generated by particular electrical devices found at work, home, and in the hospital. A new and potentially dangerous source of dysfunction has been identified: nearby…