Accelerating Neuroplasticity
How Natural Brain Healing Can Be Accelerated Using Stimulation- Share
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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