{"id":241061,"date":"2026-07-17T04:15:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T09:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/can-magnetic-fields-help-fight-parkinsons-disease"},"modified":"2026-07-17T04:15:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T09:15:23","slug":"can-magnetic-fields-help-fight-parkinsons-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/can-magnetic-fields-help-fight-parkinsons-disease","title":{"rendered":"Can magnetic fields help fight Parkinson\u2019s disease?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-magnetic-fields-help-fight-parkinsons-disease.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team has succeeded in using a magnetic field to target structures deep within the brain. The researchers injected magnetic nanoplatelets into the relevant region. By doing so, they succeeded in treating movement deficits in mice suffering from Parkinson\u2019s-like symptoms. The new method is less invasive than standard stimulation procedures using implanted electrodes that are currently used to treat certain Parkinson\u2019s disease patients.<\/p>\n<p>The study from Friedrich-Alexander-Universit\u00e4t Erlangen-N\u00fcrnberg (FAU), RWTH Aachen and the Universities of Maastricht (the Netherlands) and Leuven (Belgium) has been <a href=\"https:\/\/advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/advs.75097\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Advanced Science.<\/p>\n<p>In Parkinson\u2019s disease, nerve cells in the brain that produce the neurotransmitter dopamine gradually deteriorate. This affects the motor circuits and leads to tremors and other movement disorders. A brain pacemaker may help some patients. This is a small device that is implanted under the collarbone. From there, it stimulates a region deep within the brain called the subthalamic nucleus (STN for short). This changes pathological activity in these neural circuits and can alleviate movement disorders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team has succeeded in using a magnetic field to target structures deep within the brain. The researchers injected magnetic nanoplatelets into the relevant region. By doing so, they succeeded in treating movement deficits in mice suffering from Parkinson\u2019s-like symptoms. The new method is less invasive than standard stimulation procedures using implanted electrodes that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241061","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=241061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}