Engineering insights into brain implants

Patients suffering from brain diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s have more treatment options than ever before, thanks to medical advances in the use of brain implants. Research from MSU’s College of Engineering uncovered insights that may provide valuable design improvements for future devices. Erin Purcell, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, and Joseph Salatino, biomedical engineering doctoral student, uncovered information about the complexities of interactions between brain implants and the cells in which they interface.The research “has created unprecedented opportunities to understand brain function and treat neurological disease or injury, including Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases, depression, Tourette’s Syndrome, deafness, blindness, stroke and tinnitus.”

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