SXSW 2022
Electricity as Medicine
Description:
Every impulse in the brain is electric and all activities–from walking to dreaming–are based on electrical signals. Scientists are tapping these signals to understand how we can address medical conditions by interfacing with the brain. There’s endless potential from treating epilepsy to restoring independence to people with paralysis. Now, clinicians are leveraging brain-machine interfaces to record and stimulate specific regions of the brain to treat what was previously untreatable. By harnessing the nervous system’s language, we could transform how we approach other disorders affecting the brain, such as epilepsy, depression, obesity and more.
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Takeaways
- What brain data captured by emerging technologies teach us about electrical disorders of the brain and the implications of manipulating the brain.
- How data captured by neurotechnologies give patients a look inside their brain to better personalize treatment, and the privacy concerns around it.
- The patient perspective about implanted devices that tap into the brain’s electrical impulses. Could this really become mainstream?
Speakers
- Dr. Dileep Nair, Section head of adult epilepsy and director of intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring, Cleveland Clinic
- Martha J. Morrell MD, Chief Medical Officer, NeuroPace, Inc.; Clinical Professor of Neurology & Neurosurgery, Stanford University, NeuroPace; Stanford University
- Kimberly Bari, Meeting and Events Coordinator and RNS ambassador (RNS patient), Accenture
- Beata Jarosiewicz, Neuroengineer, Neuralink
Organizer
Shay Smith, Account Executive, Health+Commerce
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