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Home > News > New research offers minimally invasive approach to deep brain stimulation

New research offers minimally invasive approach to deep brain stimulation

Media Coverage | August 6, 2020

Valeria Sabate, The American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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Viviana Gradinaru and lab members conduct an experiment in her lab.

For her work on strategies that enable precise, minimally invasive alteration of nerves, Viviana Gradinaru is the 2020 grand prize winner of the Science & PINS Prize for Neuromodulation. Her work opens up the potential for noninvasively reaching targets deep in the brain, to treat brain disorders. Its application in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease shows it could be a way to treat brain disorders by targeting the nervous system outside the brain and spinal column, sometimes called the peripheral nervous system.

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