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Mar 13, 2022

How electrical stimulation reorganizes the brain

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Recordings of neural activity during therapeutic stimulation can be used to predict subsequent changes in brain connectivity, according to a study of epilepsy patients published in JNeurosci. This approach could inform efforts to improve brain stimulation treatments for depression and other psychiatric disorders.

Corey Keller and colleagues delivered from implanted electrodes in 14 patients while recording participants’ .

Repeated sets of stimulation resulted in progressive changes to the brain’s response to simulation, with stronger responses in brain regions connected to the stimulation site.

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