Forbes January 12, 2024
This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece discusses advances in brain stimulation therapies.
In 1999, I defined regenerative medicine as the collection of interventions that restore normal function to tissues and organs damaged by disease, injured by trauma, or worn by time. I include a full spectrum of chemical, gene, and protein-based medicines, cell-based therapies, and biomechanical interventions that achieve that goal.
An emerging brain stimulation method could be the next great asset to treating obsessive-compulsive disorder in over two million adults in the United States. In Cell, Dr. Young-Hoon Nho and colleagues from the University of Pennsylvania and elsewhere report the first-in-human application of responsive deep brain stimulation for obsessive-compulsive...
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