by Medgadget Editors | Apr 30, 2021 | Materials, Neurology, Neurosurgery
Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) often lead to cognitive disabilities and permanent neural tissue damage, for which effective therapies do not exist. The serious cognitive impairments that patients experience and the burden on caretakers can be enormous, necessitating a...
by Conn Hastings | Apr 19, 2021 | Medicine, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Oncology
Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, and the Medical University of Graz, Austria have developed an electrical pump that can precisely deliver chemotherapeutic drugs into the brain. The technology is conceived as being implantable into brain tumor resection...
by Medgadget Editors | Apr 28, 2020 | Neurology, Neurosurgery, Rehab, Surgery
Spinal cord injuries can leave people paralyzed and without a sense of touch in much of the body. While there’s been a tremendous amount of work in the past decade to overcome paralysis by using brain-computer interfaces to bypass damaged spinal cords, providing a...
