A University of Houston engineering professor is warning that implanted cuff electrodes – widely used in therapy for epilepsy, depression and inflammatory disorders – could trigger unintended nerve ...

However, without adequate contact between the nerve and the electrode, accurately measuring neural signals and effectively delivering the intended stimulation become difficult. Conventional cuff ...

West Virginia University engineers are taking a major step into “bioelectronic medicine,” a cutting-edge approach that uses electric current as a treatment for pain and disease, with the development ...

Top: cartoon of the pig vagus nerve showing the routes that the recurrent laryngeal branch (RLB) and the superior laryngeal branch (SLB) take to the cricoarytenoid (CA) and cricothyroid (CT) muscles.

MANHASSET, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Researchers at the Institute of Bioelectronic Medicine at The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research developed a long-term implant model for vagus nerve ...

DGIST (President Kunwoo Lee) has announced that a research team led by Professor Sohee Kim of the Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering has developed an electrode capable of safely ...