September 24, 2024 by Brigham and Women’s Hospital Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainA study led by researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital evaluated 193 participants in the Vietnam Head Injury Study with penetrating traumatic brain injury. The team found those with damage connected to their amygdala, the fear center of the brain, were less likely to...
by BIAL Foundation Methods and tDCS montage. In (A), we show a schematic of the implementation of our experimental design, from participant selection to assessment and intervention; in (B), we show schematics of the two different tDCS montages; in (C), we show the electric field strength of a randomly selected healthy subject for two electrode montages...
Three types of neurostimulation techniques could potentially help people who have difficulty swallowing caused by stroke or other neurological diseases, a review of 174 animal and human studies has shown. However, Dr Ivy Cheng, the University of Manchester research associate, who had reviewed evidence from over 30 randomised controlled trials, says there is unfortunately only...
MEDGADGET EDITORSEXCLUSIVE, NEUROLOGY, NEUROSURGERY, PAIN MANAGEMENT Abbott is a giant medical technology company, but it kept understated at CES. We had a chance to learn a bit of what the company is doing at the world’s premiere gadget conference, which is the Proclaim XR low dose neuromodulation implant. The Proclaim XR spinal cord stimulator can...
MEDGADGET EDITORS NEUROLOGY, REHAB Transcutaneous electrical muscle stimulation is used in a variety of clinical applications, including as a rehabilitation tool to help people with limited mobility. It is effective for maladies such as certain types of urinary incontinence, for example, but getting the muscles of the arm to move in unison and with appropriate...
By Dr. Liji Thomas, MD The battle with obesity is now set to go digital, with the development of tiny brain chips that could alter the activity of the brain area involved in experiencing pleasure from food. The chip, called a responsive neurostimulation system (RNS), recently showed success in a trial using mice and is...
The word “paralysis” is starting to lose its gloomy permanence, as researchers at top-end institutions around the world have been getting some people back on their legs who were previously thought to have to spend the rest of their lives in wheelchairs. Well targeted electrical nerve stimulation, coupled with specialized rehab training, has been the...
