Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)

Bill C-36: Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act is a response to the December, 2013 Supreme Court decision in Attorney General of Canada vs. Bedford. The Act was introduced in the House of Commons on June 4th, 2013 and passed in the House of Commons on October 6, 2014 by a 156-124 vote. It will now be considered in the Senate. Bill C-36 attempts to take the Nordic model approach, penalizing paying for sex while decriminalizing the sale of sex. This paper will present a review of Bill C-36, the importance of decriminalizing prostitution and insight into the ways that I intend to influence it as a social worker.

The above mentioned procedures are known as brain stimulation therapy where electrical and magnetic impulses are administered to the patient. Moreover, the procedures are completely painless and last only a few minutes. The treatments are once a week, usually lasting six to eight weeks. Nowadays, with the advancements in medical and psychological treatment, a combination of both prescription medicine and psychological help, has shown the greatest

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is an alternative treatment to medication for severely depressed persons that uses magnetic currents to simulate the brain, thus treating depression symptoms (Fawcett). It has been a successful alternative for many patients when they do not respond to medication, and in 2008, the FDA approved TMS for those with major

Repetitive TMS (rTMS), involves repeated application of TMS pulses, may facilitate or suppress brain activity with variable behavioral effects. Research generally shows that the functional effects of rTMS on cortical excitability depend on stimulation intensity, frequency and the overall stimulation pattern. It appears that rTMS repeated at fixed high-frequency intervals (> 4 Hz) increase cortical excitability, while stimuli repeated at low-frequency (~ 1Hz) decrease it. The possibility of varying rTMS parameters (intensity, pattern, duration) makes the potential effects and therapeutic outcomes even more unpredictable (6). Furthermore, the effectiveness of rTMS may be influenced by the nature of the underlying pathological

It’s hard to understand how people can say dance is easy when it’s so complex to be thinking about every single part of your body at the same time making sure it’s in perfect position from one movement to the next throughout a whole routine and even before that during the hour-long practices for months. The body endures too much with bumps and bruises, stretching and soreness, and pops and cracks but that’s only the physical aspect of what a dancer has to go through. The mind is worked and conditioned along the journey to improve what you see externally. The brain undergoes critical thinking of the song playing, beats, timing, when and how to move certain body parts until the end of every performance.

Unlike the United States, Japan, China, India, Austria, and Germany all are advanced in the field of magnetic therapy. (2). The United States does, though, use magnets in complex machines to help better understand the body and brain, such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), which uses magnetic fields to formulate 3-D images of the brain, and electroncephalogreaphs (EEG), which look at the electrical activity of the brain. But, as for

Presently, deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery predominates the field as the premier surgical intervention for the treatment of advanced PD. It is most ideal for those PD patients whose disease has insufficient or sporadic responses to medication. This technique involves the insertion of permanent electrodes into a specifically targeted region of the brain and continuous administration of high frequency of electrical stimulation. Currently, no evidence exists that suggests a specific target for DBS surgery may be more beneficial; there was no marked difference in motor improvement between patients who underwent GPi-directed DBS

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS): is a non-invasive technique that utilizes electrical impulses to stimulate areas of the cerebral cortex, spinal roots, and cranial and peripheral nerves. TMS can be used to stimulate neurons to promote measurable effects that can be useful in examining the excitability of the cerebral cortex and its associated anatomical connections. TMS may also be useful in accessing the pathophysiology behind the neural activity that take place within several neurological and psychiatric disorders, and it may provide clinicians with a valuable insight to not only diagnose, but treat these various conditions.

Magnetoencephalography (MEG) utilizes a cap shaped gadget containing sensors, to non-invasively measure the magnetic fields delivered by brain neural activity. MEG can limit the source of cerebrum activity as dipoles to specific brain areas with more noteworthy exactness than the multichannel electroencephalography, which is used to measure electrical fields in the brain. MEG measures neural movement over a scope of frequencies: delta activity is present in healthy people or when people are at rest, it is up to 4 Hz. The second activity is theta action which is present when someone is about to rest or sleep which is between 4 to 7 Hz. The third activity is alpha action which is 8 to 12 Hz and ordinarily happens amid a condition of loose attentiveness in sound grown-ups; beta action is 13 to 30 Hz of low sufficiency happens amid serious fixation and mental action. Lastly gamma action which is 30 to 80+ Hz happens amid specific cognitive activity.

The experiment described in the article used transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to alter brain activity in two parts of the prefrontal cortex, the dorsomedial and dorsolateral. According to the article, the prefrontal cortex is believed to help people resist temptations and make complex judgements. Patients were asked to split ten dollars with a person pictured on a screen. As a result, TMS disruption in the prefrontal cortex led to patients giving more money, than those that experienced disruption in unrelated motor areas. Furthermore, participants were shown the annual income of the recipient. Disrupting the two parts of the prefrontal cortex produced two different, specific outcomes. Those whose dorsomedial prefrontal cortex was disrupted gave additional money to recipients with lower incomes, whereas participants whose dorsolateral prefrontal cortex was disrupted gave money

Firstly, negative side effects may be induced by deep brain stimulation operations. Deep brain stimulation

In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses Jem, Scout, and Dill to help the reader view certain aspects of society in a different way by using social class, being a woman, and racism. Children are more open minded than adults, so they view the world in a distinct way compared to them. Most of society is stuck in their ways and are only able to see the world in one perspective, while the kids are are trying to develop their own view of the world . The kids morals are unlike many people’s in the town, so this gives the reader a different perspective of Maycomb/society.

I am against building another nuclear power plant in East Pennsboro Township, Pennsylvania. I think that the risks nuclear power brings far outweigh the positives of it. There have already been nuclear accidents that have made a town completely poisonous, like Chernobyl. There have also been accidents that put the surrounding area at risk for radioactivity and scared thousands of people. Three Mile Island was an example of this. We do not want people who live near a nuclear power plant to be afraid to live in their own homes due to the risk of a nuclear accident. I think we should put a stop to nuclear power in Pennsylvania so we don't put ourselves at risk for an accident, because it’s not worth it.

Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) is a non-invasive brain stimulation technique used in the entrainment of cortical oscillations (Ali, Sellers, & Fröhlich, 2013). tACS induces extracellular voltage fluctuations that arise from neural activity via electrodes placed on the scalp (Jutras & Buffalo, 2014). It allows the frequency and amplitude of oscillations to be alternated during stimulation, in a way that is less likely to entrain oscillations other than the intended frequency, making it a more specific technique to use (Herrmann, Rach, Neuling, & Strüber, 2013). The basic assumption is that if oscillations are essential to a specific cognitive function, then using tACS to stimulate these oscillations should elicit that particular function (Sejnowski & Paulsen, 2006). The current study will use tACS in order to monitor

It provides the physiological blueprint for the way our brain processes learning and memory. There are two major recent advancements in technology that help us physically see how all these parts work and function together. Structural neuroimaging is the process of creating a anatomical picture of the brain. It can show the size and shape of the brain as well as areas of lesions or brain damage (Gluck, Mercado, Myers, 2014). Common structural neuroimaging techniques used today are computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). While they all work to create a 3D image of your brain, the each have their own unique image to show. The traditional x-ray only providing one image at one angle, the CT scans allow for multiple images of “slices” or crosses through the body and this allows you to see the anatomical structure of the body in three-dimensional space (Gluck, Mercado, Myers, 2014). The MRI works in a similar way although it uses magnetic waves to create electrical currents in the brain, allowing you to create an image of size and/or shape of the brain. The newly improved MRI or the DTI measures water diffusion in the brain tissue where several groups of axons are physically viewing the connections of the brain (Gluck, Mercado, Myers, 2014). Functional neuroimaging has allowed researchers to view the activities and functions in the brain and track the amount of oxygen being carried in the blood, thus allowing them to view areas where the brain is high function or low function. Technology like the positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic imaging (fMRI) are ways in which we can psychically see these areas of activity. The method I find most intriguing is the CT scan for it was the first of its kind in brain imaging. Personally experiencing a CT scan in the past, it always amazes me how quick and accurately the