{"id":215709,"date":"2025-06-10T18:02:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T23:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/exploring-noninvasive-brain-stimulation-as-a-tool-to-enhance-cognitive-adaptability-in-autistic-individuals"},"modified":"2025-06-10T18:02:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T23:02:53","slug":"exploring-noninvasive-brain-stimulation-as-a-tool-to-enhance-cognitive-adaptability-in-autistic-individuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/exploring-noninvasive-brain-stimulation-as-a-tool-to-enhance-cognitive-adaptability-in-autistic-individuals","title":{"rendered":"Exploring noninvasive brain stimulation as a tool to enhance cognitive adaptability in autistic individuals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/exploring-noninvasive-brain-stimulation-as-a-tool-to-enhance-cognitive-adaptability-in-autistic-individuals.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some autistic traits related to challenges with social interaction, mental flexibility and visual perception could be alleviated through a new, noninvasive therapy. A team of researchers, including those from the University of Tokyo, found that stimulating nerve cells when the brain becomes \u201cstuck\u201d in a certain state improves flexibility and relieves some autistic behaviors. The procedure utilized transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), which is already used to treat certain mood disorders, in a novel manner.<\/p>\n<p>The study is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41593-025-01961-y\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature Neuroscience.<\/p>\n<p>Over 40 adults with a mild form of autism participated, and the therapeutic effects lasted for up to two months after the last session. This study could contribute toward projects enabling new treatments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some autistic traits related to challenges with social interaction, mental flexibility and visual perception could be alleviated through a new, noninvasive therapy. A team of researchers, including those from the University of Tokyo, found that stimulating nerve cells when the brain becomes \u201cstuck\u201d in a certain state improves flexibility and relieves some autistic behaviors. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215709","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=215709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}