Mayo Clinic researchers alongside the Google Research Brain Team developed a new artificial intelligence algorithm to improve brain stimulation devices to treat movement disorders and epilepsy.
For millions of people who struggle with epilepsy or movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, electrical stimulation on the brain is currently a widening treatment possibility. In the future, electrical stimulation could even potentially help those with psychiatric illness and direct brain injuries, including stroke.
However, according to researchers, examining how brain networks interact with each other is complicated. Brain networks can be studied by delivering brief pulses of electrical current in a specific area of a patient’s brain while also measuring the voltage responses in other areas.
In principle, researchers say they should be able to infer the structure of brain networks from the data. However, it becomes problematic with real-world data since recorded signals are complex, and only a limited number of measurements can be made.
Continue reading: https://healthitanalytics.com/news/artificial-intelligence-tool-enhances-brain-stimulation-devices
For millions of people who struggle with epilepsy or movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, electrical stimulation on the brain is currently a widening treatment possibility. In the future, electrical stimulation could even potentially help those with psychiatric illness and direct brain injuries, including stroke.
However, according to researchers, examining how brain networks interact with each other is complicated. Brain networks can be studied by delivering brief pulses of electrical current in a specific area of a patient’s brain while also measuring the voltage responses in other areas.
In principle, researchers say they should be able to infer the structure of brain networks from the data. However, it becomes problematic with real-world data since recorded signals are complex, and only a limited number of measurements can be made.
Continue reading: https://healthitanalytics.com/news/artificial-intelligence-tool-enhances-brain-stimulation-devices
