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...just before the Feb. 18 home game against Clarkson, an MRI pinpointed the torn...
...just before the Feb. 18 home game against Clarkson, an MRI pinpointed the torn...
...first we should make a couple of things clear. This kind of magnetic stimulation has nothing to do with the little bar magnets that arthritis sufferers sometimes wrap around their wrists or attach to their backs. Instead rTMS relies on sophisticated electromagnets similar to the ones used in MRI scanners, but these are small enough to hold in your hand and don't make all that racket...
...knows how long such a reset might last and whether aiming the magnet at a different part of the brain would work any better. But that hasn't stopped neurologists from trying rTMS on other conditions. For example, specialized MRI scans can pinpoint where stroke damage has occurred and what parts of the brain are trying to take over for the affected regions. Could the right combination of stimulation and inhibition help stroke victims overcome their disabilities...
...been compiling one of the world's largest libraries of brain growth. Every Tuesday evening, from 5 o'clock until midnight, a string of children files into the National Institutes of Health outside Washington to have their brains scanned. Giedd and his team ease the kids through the MRI procedure, and then he gives them a brain tour of their pictures--gently pointing out the spinal cord and the corpus callosum, before offering them a copy to take to show-and-tell...