A nerve stimulator implant called Inspire is helping some sleep apnea patients breathe normally at night when a CPAP machine is not an effective treatment.

Early British trials of a device that blocks pain with electrical pulses to treat sleep apnea have shown it to be a cheap and effective alternative to the conventional CPAP machine shown here. File ...

The effects of spinal cord injuries are complex and multifaceted. People lose not only the ability to control the movement of their limbs, but also the ability to receive sensory feedback from them.

A new tool to model peripheral nerve stimulation rapidly discovered optimal electrical waveforms (white traces) which, when delivered through the metal contacts of a cuff electrode placed on the vagus ...

This article appeared in Electronic Design and has been published here with permission. Providing power to implanted medical devices is a major challenge. Obvious approaches such as using a ...

A student at Michigan State University is working on a DIY kit that will let you build a transcranial direct current stimulation machine for only $99. A student at Michigan State University is working ...

A research team at Carnegie Mellon University has developed a new noninvasive brain stimulation technique, by showing how focused ultrasound affects the human brain. Using brainwave recordings from ...

LONDON, Aug. 3 (UPI) --A battery-powered device often utilized during childbirth that uses electrical impulses to block pain signals was found to improve breathing in patients with obstructive sleep ...