A New Way to Treat Obesity
Researchers believe that they might be able to combat obesity by blocking a nerve that helps regulate digestion.
View ArticleClues to Controlling Seizures
New approaches to modeling the brain could improve electrical-stimulation therapies.The same type of modeling used by meteorologists to forecast the weather could help scientists design better...
View ArticleTaming Tinnitus with Electrical Stimulation
Stimulating the vagus nerve may help block phantom sounds by reorganizing the brain.Electrically stimulating the vagus nerve, which connects the brain and the visceral organs, could help temper the...
View ArticleNeural Stimulation for Autoimmune Diseases
A startup is developing an implanted stimulator to treat such illnesses as arthritis and inflammatory bowel diseases.Setpoint Medical, a startup based in Boston, is developing a nerve stimulator...
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