ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center
SOURCE: PHYSORG
31January2011 5:14pmEST
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: What sounds like science fiction is actually possible: thanks to 
magnetic stimulation, the activity of certain brain nerve cells can be deliberately influenced. What happens in the brain in this context has been unclear up to now. Medical experts from Bochum under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Klaus Funke (Department of Neurophysiology) have now shown that various stimulus patterns changed the activity of distinct neuronal cell types. In addition, certain stimulus patterns led to rats learning more easily.
he knowledge obtained could contribute to cerebral stimulation being used more purposefully in future to treat functional disorders of the brain. The researchers have published their studies in the Journal of Neuroscience and in the European Journal of Neuroscience. (read full report)
