Healthcare's future is manipulating the body's own
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Posted On: 05/25/2024 1:36:20 PM
Healthcare's future is manipulating the body's own nerves/immune system to fight disease
Study: Stimulating vagus nerve to lower inflammation, heart rate
May 15th, 2024 Julianne Mosher Allen
"The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research is the global scientific home of bioelectronic medicine, which combines molecular medicine, neuroscience, and biomedical engineering. At the Feinstein Institutes, medical researchers use modern technology to develop new device-based therapies to treat disease and injury."
'Building on years of research in molecular disease mechanisms and the link between the nervous and immune systems, our researchers discover neural targets that can be activated or inhibited with neuromodulation devices, like vagus nerve implants, to control the body's immune response and inflammation. If inflammation is successfully controlled, diseases – such as arthritis, pulmonary hypertension, Crohn's disease, inflammatory bowel diseases, diabetes, cancer and autoimmune diseases – can be treated more effectively."
"Beyond inflammation, using novel brain-computer interfaces, Feinstein Institutes' researchers developed techniques to bypass injuries of the nervous system so that people living with paralysis can regain sensation and use their limbs. By producing bioelectronic medicine knowledge, disease and injury could one day be treated with our own nerves without costly and potentially harmful pharmaceuticals"
“Understanding how the brain-body connections control the immune system is one of the fastest growing fields in science and medicine,” said Kevin J. Tracey, MD, president and CEO of the Feinstein Institutes and Karches Family Distinguished Chair in Medical Research, who is also a co-author of the paper. “Drs. Falvey and Pavlov’s discovery explaining how a specific part of the brain can stop inflammation in the body has remarkable implications for using computer chips to replace drugs in the coming years.”
Read full article here, https://feinstein.northwell.edu/news/the-late...heart-rate
Study: Stimulating vagus nerve to lower inflammation, heart rate
May 15th, 2024 Julianne Mosher Allen
"The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research is the global scientific home of bioelectronic medicine, which combines molecular medicine, neuroscience, and biomedical engineering. At the Feinstein Institutes, medical researchers use modern technology to develop new device-based therapies to treat disease and injury."
'Building on years of research in molecular disease mechanisms and the link between the nervous and immune systems, our researchers discover neural targets that can be activated or inhibited with neuromodulation devices, like vagus nerve implants, to control the body's immune response and inflammation. If inflammation is successfully controlled, diseases – such as arthritis, pulmonary hypertension, Crohn's disease, inflammatory bowel diseases, diabetes, cancer and autoimmune diseases – can be treated more effectively."
"Beyond inflammation, using novel brain-computer interfaces, Feinstein Institutes' researchers developed techniques to bypass injuries of the nervous system so that people living with paralysis can regain sensation and use their limbs. By producing bioelectronic medicine knowledge, disease and injury could one day be treated with our own nerves without costly and potentially harmful pharmaceuticals"
“Understanding how the brain-body connections control the immune system is one of the fastest growing fields in science and medicine,” said Kevin J. Tracey, MD, president and CEO of the Feinstein Institutes and Karches Family Distinguished Chair in Medical Research, who is also a co-author of the paper. “Drs. Falvey and Pavlov’s discovery explaining how a specific part of the brain can stop inflammation in the body has remarkable implications for using computer chips to replace drugs in the coming years.”
Read full article here, https://feinstein.northwell.edu/news/the-late...heart-rate
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