{"id":178028,"date":"2023-12-11T11:24:59","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T17:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/brain-implants-revive-cognitive-abilities-long-after-traumatic-brain-injury-in-clinical-trial"},"modified":"2023-12-11T11:24:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T17:24:59","slug":"brain-implants-revive-cognitive-abilities-long-after-traumatic-brain-injury-in-clinical-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/brain-implants-revive-cognitive-abilities-long-after-traumatic-brain-injury-in-clinical-trial","title":{"rendered":"Brain implants revive cognitive abilities long after traumatic brain injury in clinical trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-implants-revive-cognitive-abilities-long-after-traumatic-brain-injury-in-clinical-trial2.jpg\"><\/a><\/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 <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/left+foot\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">left foot<\/a> dropped, so I\u2019d trip over things all the time. I was always in car accidents. And I had no filter\u2014I\u2019d get pissed off really easily.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her parents learned about research being conducted at Stanford Medicine and reached out; Arata was accepted as a participant. In 2018, physicians surgically implanted a device deep inside her brain, then carefully calibrated the device\u2019s electrical activity to stimulate the networks the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/injury\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">injury<\/a> had subdued. The results of the clinical trial were published Dec. 4 in <i>Nature Medicine.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<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. \u201cI couldn\u2019t remember anything,\u201d said Arata, who lives in Modesto with her [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1496,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178028","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\/178028","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}