A new tool to model peripheral nerve stimulation rapidly discovered optimal electrical waveforms (white traces) which, when delivered through the metal contacts of a cuff electrode placed on the vagus ...

The effects of spinal cord injuries are complex and multifaceted. People lose not only the ability to control the movement of ...

LONDON, Aug. 3 (UPI) --A battery-powered device often utilized during childbirth that uses electrical impulses to block pain signals was found to improve breathing in patients with obstructive sleep ...

A research team at Carnegie Mellon University has developed a new noninvasive brain stimulation technique, by showing how focused ultrasound affects the human brain. Using brainwave recordings from ...

Lillian Tarr, a 58-year-old nurse, was lying down for meditation at the end of a yoga class last March when she felt a headache coming on. She remembers thinking she would need to take a Tylenol when ...