stimulation

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Looking ahead, Watanabe hopes to apply the zap-and-freeze method to brain tissue collected, with permission, from individuals with Parkinson's disease who are undergoing deep brain stimulation procedures.

From Science Daily

The price for a cycle - which involves medication for ovarian stimulation, egg collection, insemination in a laboratory and embryo transfer - is regulated in China.

From Reuters

I’m not a podcast guy, but I think his books provide me with the intellectual stimulation that a lot of people get from podcasts.

From New York Times

It found that using multiple strategies involving exercise, diet, and intellectual and social stimulation could maintain or improve cognitive functioning in older people who did not have symptoms but were at risk for developing Alzheimer’s.

From Washington Post

The evidence seemed overwhelming: stimulation of brain areas that corresponded to the relevant areas of the motor cortex, which generates signals to direct body movement, elicited the expected foot, hand and face muscle twitches.

From Scientific American