{"id":160230,"date":"2023-03-14T00:22:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T05:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/simple-math-predicts-electrical-activity-in-the-brain-study-shows"},"modified":"2023-03-14T00:22:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T05:22:21","slug":"simple-math-predicts-electrical-activity-in-the-brain-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/simple-math-predicts-electrical-activity-in-the-brain-study-shows","title":{"rendered":"Simple Math Predicts Electrical Activity in The Brain, Study Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/simple-math-predicts-electrical-activity-in-the-brain-study-shows2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Through a vast network of nerve fibers, electrical signals are constantly traveling across the brain. This complicated activity is what ultimately gives rise to our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors \u2013 but also possibly to mental health and neurological problems <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41583-019-0177-6\">when things go wrong<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Brain stimulation is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1388245719312799\">emerging treatment<\/a> for such disorders. Stimulating a region of your brain with electrical or magnetic pulses will trigger a cascade of signals through your network of nerve connections.<\/p>\n<p>However, at the moment, scientists are not quite sure how these cascades travel to impact the activity of your brain as a whole \u2013 an important missing piece that limits the benefits of brain stimulation therapies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through a vast network of nerve fibers, electrical signals are constantly traveling across the brain. This complicated activity is what ultimately gives rise to our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors \u2013 but also possibly to mental health and neurological problems when things go wrong. Brain stimulation is an emerging treatment for such disorders. Stimulating a region [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160230","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}