Safety and Efficacy of Axon Therapy (SEAT Study), Utilizing Magnetic Peripheral Nerve Stimulation (mPNS) for Treatment of Neuropathic Pain.

Background: Many of the current treatments for chronic neuropathic pain have variable effectiveness and known side effects. Given the prevalence of this type of intractable pain (3-17% of general population), additional therapeutic non-invasive approaches are desired. Magnetic Peripheral Nerve Stimulation (mPNS) delivered at 0.

Studying Musical and Linguistic Prediction in Comparable Ways: The Melodic Cloze Probability Method.

Prediction or expectancy is thought to play an important role in both music and language processing. However, prediction is currently studied independently in the two domains, limiting research on relations between predictive mechanisms in music and language. One limitation is a difference in how expectancy is quantified.

Increased pain catastrophizing associated with lower pain relief during spinal cord stimulation: results from a large post-market study.

Background: Pain catastrophizing is a negative cognitive distortion to actual or anticipated pain. Our aim was to determine if greater catastrophizing has a deleterious relationship with pain intensity and efficacy outcomes in patients receiving SCS.

Methods: As part of an ongoing Institutional Review Board-approved, multi-site, single arm post-market study, 386 patients were implanted with an Eon Mini™ SCS system and had follow-up visits at 3, 6, and 12 months post-implant.

Making psycholinguistics musical: self-paced reading time evidence for shared processing of linguistic and musical syntax.

Linguistic processing, especially syntactic processing, is often considered a hallmark of human cognition; thus, the domain specificity or domain generality of syntactic processing has attracted considerable debate. The present experiments address this issue by simultaneously manipulating syntactic processing demands in language and music. Participants performed self-paced reading of garden path sentences, in which structurally unexpected words cause temporary syntactic processing difficulty.

Comparing the rhythm and melody of speech and music: the case of British English and French.

For over half a century, musicologists and linguists have suggested that the prosody of a culture's native language is reflected in the rhythms and melodies of its instrumental music. Testing this idea requires quantitative methods for comparing musical and spoken rhythm and melody. This study applies such methods to the speech and music of England and France.