An eight year-old with paralyzing brain damage regained the ability to move on her own — thanks to a first-of-its-kind implant surgery involving a robot. Before the lengthy operation, Karleigh ...
While much more research is needed, several experts predicted that some versions of brain pacemakers could be available within five or 10 years. Deep brain stimulation, which has been used for ...
The treatment gives patients targeted electrical impulses, much like a pacemaker for the brain. A growing body of recent research is promising, with more underway — although two large studies ...
New pacing systems have recently been specifically designed by the major companies for safe use in the MRI environment (EnRhythm, Advisa, and Revo MRI SureScan pacemakers and CapSureFix MRI leads ...
The Accent MRI pacemaker, with the Tendril MRI lead, is an MRI conditional system, offering safe performance of a full-body MRI scan on the patient using a 1.5 T (Tesla) field-strength MRI scanner.
Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center doctors were the first to implant a pacemaker into a woman's brain to determine if using a brain pacemaker can improve cognitive and behavioral ...