POSTS TAGGED AS neurosurgery

“Painting,” Seeing and Excising Glioblastomas

Intracranial robot prototype
There are three stories here about new neurosurgical techniques aimed at treating one of the deadliest cancers, [MORE]

Wireless Implantable Brain Sensor

Wireless Implantable Brain Sensor
Largely because of limb amputations in recent wars, rehabilitative bioengineers have been developing prosthetics that can [MORE]

3-D Printed Skull Implants

OPM 3D Printed Skull
Polyketone is a high performance thermoplastic polymer that Oxford Performance Materials (South Windsor, [MORE]

First US Brain Pacemaker Implantation in an A. D. Patient

Deep brain stimulation has already proved its effectiveness with Parkinson’s disease patients, but in a multicenter clinical trial of [MORE]

Glucose Fueled Brain Implants

Silicon Wafer
In the genre of brain-machine interfaces for restoring lost motor function or sending impulses to a prosthetic, ultra [MORE]

Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation

It’s called transcranial direct current stimulation, and it involves placing electrodes on the scalp to stimulate the cerebellum’s motion [MORE]

Implantable Sensor for Telemonitoring Intracranial Pressure

Telemetry systems that allow heart failure patients to be monitored at home are becoming increasingly common, but this report [MORE]

Robotic Neurosurgery

Robocast
EU-funded research has created a highly advanced robot for neurosurgery.  Among other features, this robot has thirteen degrees of [MORE]

Molecular Imaging for Chronic Back Pain

Chronic back pain may be the single most expensive condition in American healthcare.  And finding the source of the [MORE]

Noninvasive Assessment of Brain Pressure

Measuring Intracranial Pressure with Ultrasound
Intracranial pressure above 20 mmHg, as might happen from bleeding or swelling, often is a [MORE]

Drug-Device Strategy for Parkinson’s

Contrasting to the previous piece, Eli Lilly and Medtronic are collaborating on a new drug and companion device to [MORE]

Plying the Blood-Brain Barrier with Ultrasound

Ultrasound opeing blood-brain barrier
Using a headset to beam low-intensity ultrasound over the entire brain, for an hour’s duration, Perfusion [MORE]

Implantable Brain Prosthetic

eberhard Fetz, PhD
Stroke victims who lose their speech ability, but eventually regain it, illustrate the brain’s plasticity in recovering [MORE]

A Giant Step for iPSC’s

In a “world’s first” for primates, researchers at Keio University in Tokyo implanted induced pleuripotent stem cells (derived from [MORE]