Mattia Arlotti, Matteo Colombo, Andrea Bonfanti, Tomasz Mandat, Michele Maria Lanotte, Elena Pirola, Linda Borellini, Paolo Rampini, Roberto Eleopra, Sara Rinaldo, Luigi Romito, Marcus L F Janssen, Alberto Priori, Sara Marceglia
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is used for the treatment of movement disorders, including Parkinson's disease, dystonia, and essential tremor, and has shown clinical benefits in other brain disorders. A natural path for the improvement of this technique is to continuously observe the stimulation effects on patient symptoms and neurophysiological markers. This requires the evolution of conventional deep brain stimulators to bidirectional interfaces, able to record, process, store, and wirelessly communicate neural signals in a robust and reliable fashion...
2021: Frontiers in Neuroscience