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Studying Nervous System Electromagnetic Fields (Emf) With The Neuromodulator

Abstract: The nervous system is known to communicate with both electrical stimuli and chemical messengers and recently was shown to utilize natural oscillating cells that produce electromagnetic fields to coordinate brain activity.  Neuroscientists have studied and measured the electrical properties as well as the electromagnetic fields from regions of cells in the nervous system but not non-invasively in real time from individual cells in the intact living human.  Furthermore, scientists have begun to alter the cellular electromagnetic signatures for therapeutic purposes.  Unfortunately, it has not been possible to determine on a cellular and local area basis the electrical information metabolism that occurs not only in the normal state but also in the diseased state.  Without knowing and analyzing normal and diseased data scientist cannot adequately construct therapeutic strategies that attempt to treat the altered brain electromagnetic fields.  Technology has recently advanced enough to allow such construction and the concurrent initiation of a new field of study.

History and Current Methods: The brain, spinal cord and nerves are made of material that conducts electricity easily and acts as an electrical circuit. The electric flow is the complex interaction of chemicals, proteins and structures of the nervous system.  Modern man's nervous system connections are slightly different from other forms of non-mammalian life, in which there is direct electrical conduction across very small gaps.  In man and other mammals the synaptic transmission between the nervous system wiring, works additionally by chemical transmission.  Such an added level of complexity permits the brain to carry on procedures at synchronous times, processing greater amounts of information, essentially needed in an ever-expanding lifestyle. 

In addition to electrical and chemical methods of brain communication, a third level of complex brain interaction may exist in modern man.  Man's brain may communicate with frequencies of electromagnetic radiation, just as a radio does.  Thought processes and actions occur at multiple sites in the brain simultaneously.  These areas are not chemically connected, and any electrical connection is long and circuitous; therefore, the nervous system uses its innate cellular frequencies to pass information over distances to multiple areas in synchronization.  Information may not just be hard wired but may be transmitted over short distances as well using the natural electric field of the cells.  Ehud Ahissar of the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot Israel wrote in the 1997 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that they found that certain circuits in the brain work on the same principle as an FM radio.  The brain cells oscillate at certain frequencies and that that timing is necessary to coordinate the activity.  The frequencies are determined on the cellular level by the genetic code of the cell. 

Medical science has a history of several thousand years.  During this time people were continuously treated with drugs and surgery.  Surgery has been and is currently being performed with a knife,

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