Device helps people with brain injuries

A device used to treat brain injuries worked so well that, following a trial, some patients refused to have theirs turned off. The trial, which began in 2018, involved five people between the ages of 22 and 60. They all had cognitive (related to mental activity like thinking or reasoning) problems after suffering severe brain injuries between three and 18 years earlier. The injuries meant they had difficulty performing some tasks. For the trial, doctors implanted a tiny device into each patient’s brain during an operation. The device used “deep brain stimulation” (DBS), which rebuilds connections between neurons. Neurons are tiny cells, and there are billions of them in the brain. Whenever you do anything, chemical and electrical signals move between your neurons. The tiny device applied electricity to parts…

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