{"id":25519,"date":"2016-05-09T19:01:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T02:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/darpa-backed-researchers-create-dissolvable-electrodes-for-brain-monitoring"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:58:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:58:24","slug":"darpa-backed-researchers-create-dissolvable-electrodes-for-brain-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/darpa-backed-researchers-create-dissolvable-electrodes-for-brain-monitoring","title":{"rendered":"DARPA-backed researchers create dissolvable electrodes for brain monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/darpa-backed-researchers-create-dissolvable-electrodes-for-brain-monitoring.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next time you go for a brain scan; you could actually see dissolvable electrodes.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania in a study funded by the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are developing implantable electrodes for brain monitoring that melt away at a predetermined rate. The devices could come in handy for monitoring and treating certain neurophysiological disorders such as Parkinson\u2019s, depression and chronic pain.<\/p>\n<p>The electrodes, which are made from layers of silicon and a chemical element, molybdenum, dissolve at a known rate according to thickness. The devices can provide \u201ccontinuous streams of data for guiding medical care over predetermined periods of time,\u201d Brian Litt, senior co-author on the study and a professor of neurology, neurosurgery and bioengineering at UPenn, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The dissolvable electrodes also \u201celiminate the risks, cost, and discomfort associated with surgery to extract current devices used for post-operative monitoring,\u201d Litt said. Scientists recently published their findings online in <em>Nature Materials<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiercemedicaldevices.com\/story\/darpa-backed-researchers-create-dissolvable-electrodes-brain-monitoring\/2016-05-09\">http:\/\/www.fiercemedicaldevices.com\/story\/darpa-backed-resea...;05&#45;09<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next time you go for a brain scan; you could actually see dissolvable electrodes. Hmmm Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania in a study funded by the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are developing implantable electrodes for brain monitoring that melt away at a predetermined rate. The devices could come in handy for monitoring [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25519","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\/25519","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25519"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50545,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25519\/revisions\/50545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}