A Chip to Better Control Brain Stimulators for Parkinson's
From: IEEE Spectrum Tech Alert - 06/26/2008 - page 74
By: Morgen E. Peck 

Deep-brain stimulators help people with Parkinson’s disease by jolting a
small cortical area with low-voltage electric pulses. So far, there’s only
been one way to evaluate the treatment: by observation. Now there may be a
new way: a programmable device capable of stimulating the brain and recording
the results simultaneously. 

Michigan engineers are developing a closed-loop deep-brain stimulation device
for Parkinson's disease that would listen to the brain while stimulating it 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jun08/6381

Links:
Deep-Brain Stimulators for Parkinson's Disease Increase Impulsive Decision
   Making 
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/oct07/5669

Jerrold Vitek
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/twisted/vitek.html
http://my.clevelandclinic.org/staff_directory/6/staff_5389.aspx

Daryl Kipke
http://www.umich.edu/~neurosci/faculty/dkipke.htm
http://www.engin.umich.edu/directory/DisplayPeople.do?tableType=PEOPLE&secure=false&theID=626

University of Michigan Neural Engineering Laboratory - Current Research
http://nelab.engin.umich.edu/Research/default.aspx

Researchers forging neural links for finer control of artificial limbs
http://eetimes.eu/research/201802251

Michael Flynn
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~mpflynn/news/news.php

Scheme to Let Robot Take Over Brain-Computer Interface
http://spectrum.ieee.org/may08/6269

e-Cleveland Clinic Announces Online Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery Pre-Evaluation
http://my.clevelandclinic.org/news/2005/e-cleveland_clinic_announces_online_deep_brain_sti.aspx

Deep Brain Stimulation
http://my.clevelandclinic.org/services/deep_brain_stimulation/ns_overview.aspx