Brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies offer a way to synchronize cortical commands and movements generated by FES, which can be advantageous for inducing neuroplasticity. Therefore, the aim of this review
While the neural structures necessary for yawning appear to be located within the brainstem (Heusner, 1946), a recent case study demonstrated that electrical stimulation of the putamen, which has extensive connectivity between the brain stem and cortical regions, induces yawning in humans (Joshi et ...
“Something we see regularly in the EEG scans of people who receive electroconvulsive or magnetic seizure therapy is a slowing pattern in the brain’s electrical activity,” said Smith. “This pattern has gone unexplained for many years, but accounting for the inhibitory effects of aperiodic act...
This type of headache is caused by low pressure in your cerebrospinal fluid due to a small leak. Your spinal fluid fills the bag of liquid (meninges) that cushions and supports your brain. If you have a small leak in your meninges, your brain may sag downward when you're upright. This...
People diagnosed with OSA have at least five breathing pauses an hour and can have many more. During these breathing pauses, your brain, heart, kidneys, and other essential organs do not get enough oxygen, and carbon dioxide can build up in your body. When your brain notices there ...
Potassium helps your nerves fire properly so that they respond to stimulation. Again, this happens via electrical signals that travel from cell to cell. As part of the nervous system, your brain also needs potassium. The mineral allows brain cells to communicate, both with each other and with...
Cardiac muscle is also known as myocardial tissue and functions similarly to skeletal muscle. It is composed of cells called cardiomyocytes, which are responsible for carrying out the contractile function of the heart. Moreover, it is unique in that it can also generate electri...
This kind of normative model is used in other fields, for example, cost-effectiveness analysis in medicine. It is sometimes used as a descriptive model in economics. Information processing Starting perhaps with Wiener’s Cybernetics (1948), an approach developed that explained behavior in terms ...
Why is there electrical activity in the brain? Describe how it is used by neurons. Explain how an action potential arriving at the neuromuscular junction causes the muscle to contract. Explain how an electrical impulse is propagated along a neuron. Using striated muscle as an examp...
So Rao used a technique that does not involve opening the skull, a fluctuating magnetic field to induce a tiny electric current in a region of the brain. It appears to be safe—his first volunteer was his collaborator, Stocco—but it is a crude mechanism. The smallest area that can be ...