Transcranial magnetic stimulation

It is found that the larger the size of the group, the higher the level of anonymity in individuals. The increase in anonymity raises the difficulty in assessing individual performance (Liden, Wayne, Jaworski & Bennett, 2004). The second factor is the valence, or the meaningfulness of the group to the individual. It is observed that if the individual perceives the team goals to be less meaningful, he or she demonstrates a lower level of valence and the likeliness of them loafing increase (Dick,…

Alternative Imaging for MRI in MS MRI is a great tool for medical imaging and widely used for Multiple Sclerosis (MS), but it has some limitations in lacking specificity1. New emerging techniques such as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and optical coherence tomography (OCT) have the potential to address issues not resolved by current MRI techniques. TMS is a non-invasive technique used for monitoring the central nervous system (CNS) activity and response in a pain-tolerated manner. It…

Steve Johnson’s, “Why Games are Good For You”, is part of his best-selling book Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today’s Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter, which was published in 2005. Johnson writes about science and culture, specifically the impact of cyber technology on human perception and communication (481). Through this essay, Johnson defends the value of video games, along with other past times that are considered a waste of time. His main claim is that video games teach…

Parkinson’s disease By: Arielle Kim Approximately ten million people worldwide live with Parkinson’s disease, a chronic and progressive neurological disorder that affects the way you move. This disease can span from a couple years to one’s entire lifetime, worsening as time progresses. Parkinson’s is typically found from the age 60 and onward, but it can also affect people of younger ages. Parkinson’s disease has many symptoms that affect the human body and mind, but the five most recognizable…

My field of study, physical therapy, betters humanity in many ways. The field of physical therapy is known for returning patients to their maximum level of physical function. In most cases, patients do physical therapy in place of surgery. The physical therapist assistant (PTA) administers the provision of components of the physical therapy treatment. Depending on the needs of the patient, components of a patient’s interventions may be directed to the PTA, instead of the physical therapist.…

I is a great tool for medical imaging and widely used for MS, but it has some limitations in lacking specificity and MRI not capturing diffuse white matter pathology 1. New emerging techniques such as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and optical coherence tomography (OCT) for monitoring visual impairment by MS have the potential to address issues not resolved by current MRI techniques. TMS is a new method not widely used yet, but suitable to detect the conditions affecting MS patients.…

Introduction I have to admit that when I first started this journey, I did not understand the concept of achieving a majestic moment; I can’t quite remember basking in many of these types of moments. A majestic moment seems to be explained a temporary and often self-scene short minute of utopia or completeness. These experiences as described by Neck and Manz (2013), are self-rewarding, naturally rewarding, and self-induced. Neck and Manz (2013) also suggested that these moments can also be…

Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS), the procedure of placing stimulating electrodes into targeted brain structures, was first introduced in 1987 (Benabid et al. 1991; Benabid et al. 1987). There are several theories explaining the efficacy of DBS, (Chakrabarti et al. 2014; Frost et al. 2009; Halpern et al. 2007; Pereira et al. 2007), but ample evidence exists on the safety and efficacy of DBS in Parkinson’s Disease (PD), leading to expanded indications for DBS including benign tremors, dystonia,…

maintains the magnetic flux and produces a particular value of the flux density B at that point in a magnetic field. Therefore the flux density is the cause while the flux density (B) is the effect. The flux density can be assumed proportionally to the field intensity in a magnetic field which comes in three parts. First part is: Where U stands for the permeability of force (the measure of the degree to which the magnetic line of force can penetrate the material). The value of magnetic space…

Maxwell and Faraday- A Brief History of Electromagnetism The field of electromagnetism was established in 1819, twelve years before Maxwell was born. Hans Christian Oersted from Denmark was the first scientist who thought of the possibility that magnetism and electricity were related. He considered such a possibility because of the observations he made during an experiment. He Placed a wire above a compass and passed a current through the wire. He noticed that the needle of compass moved when…