[Home]  [Headlines]  [Latest Articles]  [Latest Comments]  [Post]  [Sign-in]  [Mail]  [Setup]  [Help] 

Status: Not Logged In; Sign In

Scientists unlock 30-year mystery: Rare micronutrient holds key to brain health and cancer defense City of Fort Wayne proposing changes to food, alcohol requirements for Riverfront Liquor Licenses Cash Jordan: Migrant MOB BLOCKS Whitehouse… Demands ‘11 Million Illegals’ Stay Not much going on that I can find today In Britain, they are secretly preparing for mass deaths These Are The Best And Worst Countries For Work (US Last Place)-Life Balance These Are The World's Most Powerful Cars Doctor: Trump has 6 to 8 Months TO LIVE?! Whatever Happened to Robert E. Lee's 7 Children Is the Wailing Wall Actually a Roman Fort? Israelis Persecute Americans Israelis SHOCKED The World Hates Them Ghost Dancers and Democracy: Tucker Carlson Amalek (Enemies of Israel) 100,000 Views on Bitchute ICE agents pull screaming illegal immigrant influencer from car after resisting arrest Aaron Lewis on Being Blacklisted & Why Record Labels Promote Terrible Music Connecticut Democratic Party Holds Presser To Cry About Libs of TikTok Trump wants concealed carry in DC. Chinese 108m Steel Bridge Collapses in 3s, 16 Workers Fall 130m into Yellow River COVID-19 mRNA-Induced TURBO CANCERS. Think Tank Urges Dems To Drop These 45 Terms That Turn Off Normies Man attempts to carjack a New Yorker Test post re: IRS How Managers Are Using AI To Hire And Fire People Israel's Biggest US Donor Now Owns CBS 14 Million Illegals Entered US in 2023: The Cost to Our Nation American Taxpayers to Cover $3.5 Billion Pentagon Bill for U.S. Munitions Used Defending Israel The Great Jonny Quest Documentary This story About IRS Abuse Did Not Post CDC Data Exposes Surge in Deaths Among Children of Covid-Vaxxed Mothers

Science/Tech
See other Science/Tech Articles

Title: Magnetic pulses change brain chemistry
Source: [None]
URL Source: http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20120502-23075.html
Published: Feb 7, 2012
Author: staff
Post Date: 2012-02-07 04:12:31 by Tatarewicz
Keywords: None
Views: 28

A pioneering therapy that uses magnetic pulses to stimulate the brain to treat conditions such as Parkinson's disease, depression, schizophrenia, epilepsy and stroke is now better understood thanks to researchers from The University of Western Australia and the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in France.

Research Associate Professor Jennifer Rodger from UWA's School of Animal Biology said she and her team tested the therapy - known as repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) - on mice to find out how it can be applied to treating human neurological disease.

The research was published recently in the prestigious journal FASEB (Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology).

"Our work demonstrated for the first time that pulsed magnetic fields promote changes in brain chemicals that correct abnormal brain connections, resulting in improved behaviour and brain function," joint lead author Dr Rodger said.

"rTMS is an exciting therapy that stimulates the brain. It has shown promising results in treating the damaged human brain. Our research helps to explain how this therapy works on the cells of the brain. Previously, evidence of its usefulness was mainly from anecdotal clinical evidence.

"Our results greatly increase our understanding of the specific cellular and molecular events that occur in the brain during rTMS therapy. We are the first to show that changes in brain circuits underpin these beneficial effects. Our results have implications for how rTMS is used in humans to treat disease and improve brain function."

Dr Rodger explained that the structural and functional changes caused by the therapy in malfunctioning circuits were not seen in the normal healthy brain, suggesting that the therapy could have minimal side effects in humans.

To read the article online: www.fasebj.org/content/ea...2/01/04/fj.11-194878.long

Post Comment   Private Reply   Ignore Thread  

[Home]  [Headlines]  [Latest Articles]  [Latest Comments]  [Post]  [Sign-in]  [Mail]  [Setup]  [Help]