{"id":199438,"date":"2024-11-14T04:30:46","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T10:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/minimally-invasive-neural-interface-allows-brain-access-without-skull-opening"},"modified":"2024-11-14T04:30:46","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T10:30:46","slug":"minimally-invasive-neural-interface-allows-brain-access-without-skull-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/minimally-invasive-neural-interface-allows-brain-access-without-skull-opening","title":{"rendered":"Minimally invasive neural interface allows brain access without skull opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/minimally-invasive-neural-interface-allows-brain-access-without-skull-opening2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers led by Rice University\u2019s Jacob Robinson and the University of Texas Medical Branch\u2019s Peter Kan has developed a technique for diagnosing, managing and treating neurological disorders with minimal surgical risks. The team\u2019s findings were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41551-024-01281-9\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Nature Biomedical Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>While traditional approaches for interfacing with the nervous system often require creating a hole in the skull to <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/interface\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">interface<\/a> with the brain, the researchers have developed an innovative method known as endocisternal interfaces (ECI), allowing for electrical recording and stimulation of neural structures, including the brain and <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/spinal+cord\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">spinal cord<\/a>, through <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cerebral+spinal+fluid\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cerebral spinal fluid<\/a> (CSF).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsing ECI, we can access multiple brain and spinal cord structures simultaneously without ever opening up the skull, reducing the risk of complications associated with traditional surgical techniques,\u201d said Robinson, professor of electrical and computer engineering and bioengineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers led by Rice University\u2019s Jacob Robinson and the University of Texas Medical Branch\u2019s Peter Kan has developed a technique for diagnosing, managing and treating neurological disorders with minimal surgical risks. The team\u2019s findings were published in Nature Biomedical Engineering. While traditional approaches for interfacing with the nervous system often require creating [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199438","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}