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News & Views: Reviving memory with an electrical current
Posted on May 18, 2016 by Katherine Malanson | Categories: ND Final Project, ND Lesson2-5, ND Unit2, Neurological Disorders | | Add comment |

Lilly Padula for NPR

While still experimental, deep brain stimulation with implanted electrodes is being tested as a way to ease dementia in patients with Alzheimer’s and other neurological conditions. Could it work? Recent studies, published in the New England Journal of MedicineJournal of Neurosurgery, and Molecular Psychiatry suggest it just might.

Read more at NPR.org.