Prof. Bikson featured on Behind the Bench

Prof. Marom Bikson interviewed for Behind the Bench. Includes discussion of how the the Bikson’s lab unique approach to neural engineering and medical device creation.

“There was not much work at CWRU in non-invasive stimulation. By picking that area for my research I had to leverage a lot of the tools that were developed at Case, but I also had to adapt them and create a new sort of toolkit of neural engineering for non-invasive electrical stimulation,” Bikson said. “I’m starting to work more and more with them,” he continued. “For example, I’m working with Rafael Carbunaru, who was a student of Dominique’s and now he’s directing R&D at Boston Scientific. And the reason these things came full circle is because all of a sudden, the fields of invasive and non-invasive neuromodulation that were seemingly different started to push in against each other. All of a sudden, high frequency became relevant for non-invasive and all of a sudden, sub-threshold became relevant for invasive. And oscillations became relevant for everything. Closed loop became relevant for everything. And in this way, I’m starting to work more in spinal cord stimulation, but I’m doing it with toolkits that we developed for non-invasive neuromodulation. Another example is individualized modeling was pioneered first for invasive but was pushed ahead for non-invasive. A lot of those tools can now be applied back to invasive.”

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