Zap Your Tongue, and Fix Your Brain!
From: Medical Design Technology - 06/03/2015

Helius Medical has spent many years developing the noninvasive Portable
Neuromodulation Stimulator, PoNS for short, aptly named after a section of
the brainstem. PoNS is the latest evolution of the “Tongue display unit”
meant to communicate sensory information to the brain through the tongue. It
then became the “brainport balance device,” which sent information through
the tongue to replace vestibular signal lost through disease or trauma. A
researcher then discovered that neurostimulation via the tongue, combined
with exercises to overcome neurological deficits as a result of disease or
trauma, was able to challenge the brain into reorganizing its function to
accomplish movement that had been disturbed.

Read the entire interview with Philippe Deschamps, President and CEO of
  Helius Medical Technologies at:
http://www.mdtmag.com/blogs/2015/06/zap-your-tongue-and-fix-your-brain

Links:
Helius Medical Technologies
http://www.heliusmedical.com

PoNS
http://www.heliusmedical.com/divisions/neurohabilitation/pons-device