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Laser-Controlled Humans Closer to Reality
Flashes of light may one day be used to control the human brain, and that day just got a lot closer. Using lasers, researchers at the MIT Media Lab were able to activate a specific set of neurons in a ...
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The Next Hacking Frontier: Your Brain?
Hackers who commandeer your computer are bad enough. Now scientists worry that someday, they’ll try to take over your brain. In the past year, researchers have developed technology that makes it...
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Contact High: Lenses That Deliver Drugs
Dry-eye sufferers and glaucoma patients may soon be able to trade their messy eye drops for a contact lens that delivers medication gradually over time. Although eye drops account for 90 percent of all...
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Gadgets and Ideas to Revolutionize Healthcare
The TEDMED conference gave 400 people a glimpse at the future of healthcare last week, bringing together an eclectic group of innovators, from photographers to stem cell experts, each with a different...
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Blood-Chilling Device Could Save Stroke Victims From Brain Damage
SAN ANTONIO — Cool runnings, indeed. A tiny device placed inside a central vein can safely refrigerate blood as it flows through stroke patients, lowering their temperature and raising the possibility...
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Depression’s wiring diagram
The ever-excellent Neurocritic has an interesting post looking at "lesion studies" of depression. As he notes, he was hoping for real lesions, from people who'd had psychosurgery years ago, but had to...
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Shocking Medical Devices From Another Century
Electricity has a strange place in the annals of medicine. Since ancient times, electric cures have been pursued and promoted by earnest scientists and profiteering quacks alike. The devices in this...
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