Medical Control of Nervous System Signals: A New Frontier

It’s called Bioelectronic Medicine.

From news-medical.net:

Bioelectric medicine involves the use of implanted devices that stimulate targeted nerves within natural signaling pathways in order to achieve a therapeutic effect.

Neuromodulation can aid with the unmet needs of several diseases, including heart failure, hypertension, inflammation, asthma, arthritis, Alzheimer’s disease, and diabetes. There are also novel approaches that aim to intervene with the neuronal signaling that is involved wit...