Medicine
SR-based techniques have been used to create a novel class of medical devices for enhancing sensory and motor functions such as vibrating insoles especially for the elderly, or patients with diabetic neuropathy or stroke.
See the Review of Modern Physics article for a comprehensive overview of stochastic resonance.
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“Good medicine is bitter to the taste.”
—Chinese proverb.
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—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
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