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The newly approved device aims to treat depression by directly stimulating neural activity.

Although this low voltage isn't enough to stimulate neurons to cause the TA to contract, Kim explained, it changed the neurons' excitability, or ability to fire. The researchers found that this ...

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A headset recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration uses a weak electric current to shock the brain. Some ...

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When you suffer from mental illness, sometimes counseling and pills aren't enough. And for those, especially people with depression, an answer can be found in brain stimulation. KPBS sci-tech reporter ...

Materials scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University, as part of a scientific collaboration, have developed biocompatible ...

Treating brain diseases is extraordinarily challenging, because drugs often work poorly and implants require risky surgery that can jeopardize critical brain functions. A group at MIT has sought a ...

Concerned about the effects of these changes, biophysicist Elena Molokanova and her team sought a more natural way to stimulate neurons in cell culture. In a recent study, the researchers grew neurons ...