Ablation - destruction or removal by some external
means
Affective disorder - a psychological illness showing
emotional disturbances.
Afferent - going into, coming towards, arriving
at.
DBS - Deep brain stimulation, a therapy which
targets subcortical regions, such as the thalamus and basal ganglia.
Capacitor - something that can store electrical
charge from a potential passed across it, increasing its resitance
as charge accumilates, and releasing the charge once the potential
across it is removed.
Cephalic - of or relating to the head.
Codec - is an abbreviation for Code-Decode. It
refers to a hardware or software logic algorithm that exchanges
data between two objects, synchronously translating it to an appropriate
format.
Efferent - going from, moving away, leaving.
Electrolyte - a liquid medium containing dissolved
molecules and ion, including the fluid found in the body between
cells.
ESB - Electrical stimulation of the brain, using
guided electrodes.
Faradaic - reffering to Micheal faraday, a pioneer
in research into electricity.
Haemorrhage - internal bleeding.
Idiot savant - someone who is underdeveloped in
ways typically present i most people (i.e. communication or social
skills), but has some exceptional mental skills beyond the scope
of normal human ability (i.e. mathmatical genius or photographic
memory)
Intrathecal - denotes application into the spinal
fliud
Monophasic - consisting of a single change - i.e.
a current flows in one direction only.
Neurite - any kind of extension of the neural
cell body, including axons (signal outputs) and dendrites (signal
inputs)
Sated - satisfied fully or to excess.
Stochastic - A stochastic process is one whose
behavior is non-deterministic in that the next state of the environment
is not fully determined by the previous state of the environment.
Vagus nerve - a large nerve that carries autonomic
signals from the CNS into most of the rest of the body. It is the
major parasympathetic outlet of the brain, controlling functions
of the heart, lungs, pancreas, gall bladder, stomach and gut.
VGCC - voltage gated calcium channel, a protein
in cell membranes that regulates flow of calcium ions through detection
of relative electrostatic charge on either side of the membrane.
VGSC - voltage gated sodum channel, as above.
Waveform - literally the nature of a pulse of
electrical charge. 'Wave-form' describes the shape seen on an occiloscope
when detecting changes in potential, it's kind of wavey.
