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This summer, doctors in St. Louis shaved away a small part of a person’s skull and replaced it with electrodes. The technology is intended to alleviate the patient’s severe depression by sending tiny electric pulses to the brain.
Many neurosurgeons have dreamed for years of ending depression with a jolt from brain-implanted electrodes. A startup called Inner Cosmos Inc. says it can do just that without needing to drill deeply into a person’s skull.
Stroke patients who are struggling to regain the use of a hand will soon have access to a new FDA-cleared device that uses signals from the undamaged part of the brain to retrain the injured limb.
Paralysis of the hand or arm impacts a majority of stroke survivors. Previously, researchers and medical providers thought that when chronic stroke patients didn’t regain motor function in their hands after a few months, the ability was gone forever. Now, there’s new hope for that population.
A first-of-its kind device that helps people disabled by stroke regain significant control over their arm and hand function by using their minds has received market authorization from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
A first-of-its kind device that helps people disabled by stroke regain significant control over their arm and hand function by using their minds has received market authorization from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
In this exciting talk at Exponential Medicine, Dr. Leuthardt shares the cutting edge of his and colleagues work with neurotechnology and its potential in the near future.
In the not-so-distant future, it will be possible, perhaps even common place, to have computers implanted in our brains.
