stimulator
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Or a vagus nerve stimulator from Truvaga for $499.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Ltd and are listed as inventors in issued patents and patent applications on the deep brain stimulator used in this work.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 8, 2026
With external devices, the electrical impulses need to travel through skin, tissue, muscle and fat so it's not as simple and direct as a stimulator in the body.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2025
The device, known as TENS, for transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulator, became a standard medical tool.
From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2023
This man is the idol of the people, their passion, the ruler of their souls, the stimulator of their enthusiasm.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
After she experienced burnout, Lucy Lambert says such non-invasive vagus nerve stimulators helped her.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2025
In the future, this could allow for the individual control of multiple stimulators in different parts of the body, for example to treat tremor in the late stages of Parkinson's disease.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 8, 2024
In 2013 Mayberg, then at Emory, heard about prototype stimulators made by the medical device company Medtronic that could also record from the brain, and she applied to receive 10 of them.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 20, 2023
Those with pacemakers, defibrillators and vagus nerve stimulators may also not qualify, because the magnetic force of the treatment coil may dislodge these devices and cause severe pain or injury.
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2022
They were the awakeners of a new intellectual life; not only the stimulators of an emotional pietism always prone to run into religious intoxication and extravagance.
From The Coming of the Friars by Augustus Jessopp
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