{"id":177493,"date":"2023-12-05T21:22:23","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T03:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/reviving-minds-implant-restores-cognitive-functions-after-brain-injury"},"modified":"2023-12-05T21:22:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T03:22:23","slug":"reviving-minds-implant-restores-cognitive-functions-after-brain-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/reviving-minds-implant-restores-cognitive-functions-after-brain-injury","title":{"rendered":"Reviving Minds: Implant Restores Cognitive Functions After Brain Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/reviving-minds-implant-restores-cognitive-functions-after-brain-injury2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A new technique using deep brain stimulation tailored to each patient exceeded researchers\u2019 expectations in treating the cognitive impairments from moderate to severe traumatic brain injury.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2001, Gina Arata was in her final semester of college, planning to apply to law school, when she suffered a traumatic brain injury in a car accident. The injury so compromised her ability to focus she struggled in a job sorting mail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI couldn\u2019t remember anything,\u201d said Arata, who lives in Modesto with her parents. \u201cMy left foot dropped, so I\u2019d trip over things all the time. I was always in car accidents. And I had no filter \u2014 I\u2019d get pissed off really easily.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new technique using deep brain stimulation tailored to each patient exceeded researchers\u2019 expectations in treating the cognitive impairments from moderate to severe traumatic brain injury. In 2001, Gina Arata was in her final semester of college, planning to apply to law school, when she suffered a traumatic brain injury in a car accident. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1496,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-law","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}