SfN17: Advances in brain stimulation in treatment and research

Written by Lauren Pulling, Editor

Research presented today at the Society for Neuroscience's annual meeting (Washington DC, USA, 11–15 November 2017) has detailed advances in brain stimulation technologies, revealing safer, more targeted means of studying brain function and treating neurological and psychiatric disorders.  One such piece of research came from Nicole Swann (University of California, San Francisco, LA, USA) and colleagues, who presented evidence that a novel implantable device can both provide deep brain stimulation (DBS) and record activity at the brain surface, providing feedback and causing the device to moderate stimulation level according to the patient's levels of dyskinesia. The device was tested on...

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