Neurotechnology – News and Features

A Northwestern Medicine study reveals that changes in communication between the hippocampus and cortex shortly after a whiplash injury, along with anxiety levels, can predict chronic pain development.

Researchers found that a 10-week course of home-based transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) significantly improved symptoms of major depressive disorder (MDD). The treatment showed higher response and remission rates.

Researchers report that novel magnetic nanodiscs could provide a much less invasive way of stimulating parts of the brain, paving the way for stimulation therapies without implants or genetic modification.

A new gene therapy technology enables the non-invasive control of specific brain circuits, holding promise for studying the brain and finding treatments for neurological conditions.

Newborn screening is a relatively easy and cost-effective way of improving the identification of babies with a medical condition in a timely fashion. This allows newborns to receive the treatment needed before irreversible damage has developed.

A new, non-invasive method uses light to activate neurons in the brain, potentially transforming deep brain stimulation treatment for Parkinson's and other neurological conditions.

An AI algorithm has been developed that can identify brain patterns related to a particular behavior, which can improve brain-computer interfaces and discover new brain patterns.

Adaptive deep brain stimulation could provide round-the-clock personalized care for people with Parkinson’s disease, treating movement problems during the day and insomnia at night.

A new brain–computer interface translates brain signals into speech with 97% accuracy, restoring speech to a man with ALS.

A new study based on recordings in the brains of people has yielded a pathbreaking trove of data that researchers now have used to reveal, with more clarity than ever, the neural incarnations of inferential reasoning.