Smartphone-controlled soft brain implant to treat brain disease
Neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, depression, pain disorders and addictions could now be treated from within the brain itself using an intriguing new soft implant in the brain itself.
The new device, invented by a team of researchers based both in Korea and the United States, is capable of delivering regulatory inputs to brain circuits via a very small non-traumatic implant which in turn is controlled by, of all things, a smartphone.
The report was published in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering. The scientists behind this invention hope that the treatment of these debilitating disorders could be accelerated by the inputs from this device. It uses replaceable cartridges capable of either administering drugs or low-energy light delivery via Bluetooth signals to treat different medical conditions. Both the light and the energy can be directed to target a desired nerve cell or cell cluster over long periods. This technique is called neuromodulation.
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