The multifunction nerve stimulator S8 was invented in the mid-20th century. It was commonly used to inject current into muscles and cardiac cells to elicit a response. Using frog muscles and hearts, an Italian physician, Luigi Galvani, showed that electricity was inherent in organic tissue. Over the last fifty years or so electro-therapy has shown a very rapid development. This equipment is still functional. I am using the stimulator to send electrical impulses into neurons and record subsequent changes in nerve activity characterized by the movement of charged molecules across the cell membrane.
Submission Year:
2016-17
Photographer's affiliation:
Graduate student
Academic areas:
Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs
Health Sciences
Photo:
![Old is Gold A multifunction nerve stimulator S8](https://www.queensu.ca/research/sites/all/modules/contrib/lazyloader/image_placeholder.gif)
Categories:
Grad student
School of Graduate Studies
Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Medicine
Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences
Interdisciplinary research in materials, computational analytics and human-machine interactions
Materials Discovery and Molecular Design
Location of photograph:
Botterell Hall, Queen's University
Photographer's name:
Alamjeet Kaur Chauhan
Display Photographers Affiltion + Faculty or Department:
Graduate Student, Biomedical and Molecular Sciences