The brain’s lateral ability to heal itself can be accelerated by external stimulation. Today Robert J. Marks discusses brain stimulation with Yuri Danilov.

Show Notes

• 00:47 | Introducing Yuri Danilov, Senior Scientist, Biomedical Engineering Department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
• 01:18 | Phineas Gage (1823 – 1860) and the study of brain trauma
• 03:23 | Do we actually remember everything?
• 05:43 | Photographic and eidetic memory
• 06:43 | Can you survive a bullet to the brain?
• 07:16 | The challenge of blast concussive injuries
• 07:57 | Transcranial direct-current stimulation (TDCT) devices
• 11:50 | Our dependence on sensory input
• 13:33 | The BrainPort device and translingual neurostimulation
• 14:56 | Using the tongue for neurostimulation
• 17:43 | The most famous blind alpinist, Erik Wiehenmayer
• 18:56 | Blindness and depth perception
• 20:09 | Neurostimulation to help deaf people learn to read lips
• 21:06 | Resolution of the stimulator matrix
• 23:29 | Translingual neurostimulation (TLNS) for mental disorders
• 23:47 | The Portable Neuromodulation Stimulator (PoNS®) device
• 27:33 | Treating autism with the PoNS® device
• 29:11 | Why aren’t these devices used everywhere?
• 29:28 | Working with patients considered “untreatable”
• 30:56 | FDA approval for the PoNS® device

Additional Resources

• Yuri Danilov at Academia.edu, Google Scholar, and ResearchGate
• Who was Phineas Gage? at Encyclopædia Britannica
• Paul Bach-Y-Rita at ResearchGate
• Mitchell Tyler at ResearchGate
• Kurt Kaczmarek at ResearchGate
• Erik Wiehenmayer’s website
• The Portable Neuromodulation Stimulator (PoNS®) Device