I'm sure with ANY innovative brains at all in the stroke world we could easily see many applications for stroke rehab. BCI? TMS? etc. etc. stem cell placement? axon pathfinding? neurite outgrowth? magnetic delivery of tPA with much smaller boluses?
20 billion nanoparticles talk to the brain using electricity
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ELECTRICITY is the brain’s language, and now we can speak to it without wires or implants. Nanoparticles can be used to stimulate regions of the brain electrically, opening up novel ways to treat brain diseases.
When magneto-electric nanoparticles are subjected to an external magnetic field, they produce an electric field. If such nanoparticles are placed next to neurons, this electric field should allow them to communicate.
To find out, Sakhrat Khizroev of Florida International University in
Miami and his team inserted 20 billion of these nanoparticles into the
brains of mice. They then switched on a magnetic field. An
electroencephalogram showed that the brain region surrounded by
nanoparticles lit up, stimulated by the electric field that had been
generated (Future Medicine, doi.org/44b).
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ELECTRICITY is the brain’s language, and now we can speak to it without wires or implants. Nanoparticles can be used to stimulate regions of the brain electrically, opening up novel ways to treat brain diseases.
When magneto-electric nanoparticles are subjected to an external magnetic field, they produce an electric field. If such nanoparticles are placed next to neurons, this electric field should allow them to communicate.
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