Article by Marijn van Dongen on efficient and safe neurostimulation
Article by Marijn van Dongen, honorary aluminus of the Bioelectronics Group, in Maxwell 18.3, the quarterly magazine of the Electrotechnische Vereeniging, on the work he did for his PhD studies on power efficient and safe neurostimulation.
Read the entire article here: http://elca.et.tudelft.nl/~wout/tmp/neurostimulation_maxwell_18.3_vandongen.pdf
Lecture on Electroceuticals: getting better with electricity
On May 6, 2015, Collegerama of TU Delft made video recordings of the lecture I gave on Electroceuticals.
Electroceuticals are the electronic counterparts of pharmaceuticals and are miniature electronic devices that interact with the body in an electrical fashion.
In this talk I discuss: neurostimulation and the need to make neurostimulators smaller, more power efficient and more intelligent; optogenetic neuromodulation and the need to make this new neuromodulation modality operate in a closed-loop fashion; neurosensing devices to make neurostimulators intelligent and thereby adjust themselves to the therapeutical needs of the patient; autonomous wireless sensor nodes that can measure temperature or the electrocardiogram without the need for a battery; an outlook into the future of electroceuticals with the promise to treat a larger variety of neurological and brain disorders better.
Click here to start watching the video and slides: