MEG recordings of patients with cerebral palsy before and after the application of pico-Tesla weak magnetic fields

MEG data for five cerebral palsy patients were taken using a whole-head 122-channel MEG system. An experiment was designed to identify the possible effect of external pico-Tesla weak magnetic fields. The subjects were five male volunteers 17-46 years of age. External stimulation, field amplitude 1-7...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of integrative neuroscience 2019-03, Vol.18 (1), p.17-21
Hauptverfasser: Anninos, Photios, Kotini, Athanasia, Adamopoulos, Adam, Tsagas, Nicolaos
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Zusammenfassung:MEG data for five cerebral palsy patients were taken using a whole-head 122-channel MEG system. An experiment was designed to identify the possible effect of external pico-Tesla weak magnetic fields. The subjects were five male volunteers 17-46 years of age. External stimulation, field amplitude 1-7.5 pico-Tesla, was applied to each subject at their alpha-rhythm frequency. Fast Fourier transforms were applied to the data of all MEG channels and the rhythms of the patients were evaluated before and after pico-Tesla transcranial magnetic stimulation. The appliance of pico-Tesla weak magnetic fields showed the brains of the cerebral palsy patients had an enhance of the frequencies of (2-7 Hz) for each patient. This was followed by an improvement and normalization of their MEG. The results had a statistical significance in four out of five subjects (80%) and suggested the stimulation provided a positive contribution to the management of the symptoms of cerebral palsy patients.
ISSN:0219-6352
1757-448X
1757-448X
DOI:10.31083/J.JIN.2019.01.104