United States Arizona neurologists William Taylor started from a few years ago the United States Army Research Laboratory, subsidy of the perennially in neural science and technology studies.
Recently, his research was United States Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). DARPA for its non-invasive brain stimulation technique improvement studies, granted his laboratory "young Faculty Award".Taylor said, there are already some scientists study using the most advanced brain stimulation to treat Parkinson's disease and depression.
However, these deep brain stimulation therapy requires first of all for invasive surgery, transplantation electrode and the battery. At the same time, come from outside of ultrasonic stimulation are often unable to arrive at the "most sick part of deep brain."Taylor's research team developed can be accessed from the outside world for most brain circuit to stimulate "Transcranial pulsed ultrasound".
This device is very different from the existing method, can be on deep brain selectively ultrasonic irradiation. At the same time, able to target only 2 ~ 3 mm to specific areas of the brain. Moreover, the device is very small, can be embedded into a standard helmet.If you use this micro control device, the US Army by ultrasonic stimulation of the brain parts, so that fighting soldier's attention, sensitivity was highly promoted, but also to ease the fatigue and pain and prevent traumatic brain injury (Traumatic brain injury, TBI).
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