{"id":136811,"date":"2022-03-13T23:21:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T06:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/how-electrical-stimulation-reorganizes-the-brain"},"modified":"2022-03-13T23:21:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T06:21:41","slug":"how-electrical-stimulation-reorganizes-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/how-electrical-stimulation-reorganizes-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"How electrical stimulation reorganizes the brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-electrical-stimulation-reorganizes-the-brain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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 <i>JNeurosci<\/i>. This approach could inform efforts to improve brain stimulation treatments for depression and other psychiatric disorders.<\/p>\n<p>Corey Keller and colleagues delivered <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/electrical+stimulation\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electrical stimulation<\/a> from implanted electrodes in 14 patients while recording participants\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain+activity\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain activity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Repeated sets of stimulation resulted in progressive changes to the brain\u2019s response to simulation, with stronger responses in brain regions connected to the stimulation site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 electrical stimulation from implanted electrodes in 14 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}