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.
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MEG recordings of patients with cerebral palsy before and after the application of pico-Tesla weak magnetic fields
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Laboratory of Medical Physics, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, University Campus, Alexandroupoli 68100, Greece
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Department of Electrical Engineer, Polytechnic School, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupoli 68100, Greece
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anninos@med.duth.gr
(Photios Anninos)
J. Integr. Neurosci. 2019, 18(1), 17–21;
https://doi.org/10.31083/j.jin.2019.01.104
Submitted: 3 November 2017 | Accepted: 11 December 2017 | Published: 30 March 2019
Copyright: © 2019 Anninos et al. Published by IMR press.
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license (
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MEG
cerebral palsy
pT-TMS
Fourier transform
alpha frequency
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