Tag: Deep Brain Stimulation
Researchers Find Neuro Biomarkers to Create Smart Brain Stimulators for Parkinson’s Treatment
Parkinson's disease is a progressive nervous system disorder that affects movement. Symptoms include muscle rigidity, tremors, and changes in speech and gait. After diagnosis,...
DARPA Funds Six Organizations to Support Next-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology program
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded funding to six organizations to support the Next-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology (N3) program. The groups...
Medtronic to Launch Deep Brain Simulation for Medically-Refractory Epilepsy in the U.S.
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder in which brain activity becomes abnormal, causing seizures or periods of unusual behavior, sensations, and sometimes loss of awareness....
Abbott, Medtronic Driving Deep Brain Stimulation Innovation for Parkinson’s Disease
Parkinson's disease is a progressive nervous system disorder that affects movement. Symptoms start gradually, sometimes starting with a barely noticeable tremor in just one...
CRC 1261 Research on Developing Biomagnetic Diagnostics System to Continuously Adjust Deep Brain Stimulation
Scientists at the Collaborative Research Centre CRC 1261 are conducting studies to develop biomagnetic diagnostic system which could be used to continuously adjust deep...
Draper Develops Wireless Brain Implant that Can Make a Big Impact on Treatment of...
Draper, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based engineering company has developed a small wireless neuromodulation device that may be small enough to implant into the interior of...