Posts Tagged ‘electrical-impulses’
Next: Monitoring the body’s electrical signalling to enhance brain health
_______ READING THE BODY’S ELECTRICAL SIGNALS TO TREAT ILLNESS (University of Melbourne): “Chemical electricity is how we move, think, and remember. And increasingly, as technology miniaturises and computer power multiplies, it’s how we are treating chronic illness. Since the fully implantable pacemaker was developed in the 1950s to keep a patient’s heart beating in rhythm…
Read MoreThe value of neuroimaging techniques (and what those squiggly lines mean)
The media regularly reports on findings based on neuroimaging studies, but rarely do they explain exactly what these techniques are, their benefits or what it’s like to actually participate in these types of studies. Today I’ll describe what a participant goes through when they volunteer for a cognitive neuroscience experiment using a neuroimaging technique called…
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