The U.S. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) awarded a $399,954 Project Grant to Highland Instruments Inc. under the Drug Abuse and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) to expand the commercialization readiness of its Electrosonic Stimulation (ESStiM) technology. ESStiM is a noninvasive brain stimulation modality developed by Highland Instruments to treat chronic pain associated with carpal tunnel syndrome. The grant funding will enable Highland Instruments to...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $275,000 to Rehabnetics Medical LLC will fund the development of a prototype robotic wrist-hand exoskeleton device for physical therapy. The system aims to provide tailored rehabilitative exercises and quantified measures of therapeutic progress for patients with motor deficits resulting from neurological conditions such as stroke, traumatic brain injury, and Parkinson's...
The National Institute of Mental Health awarded Evren Technologies, Inc. a $769,743 project grant under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to develop a personalized transcutaneous vagal nerve stimulation device for post-traumatic stress disorder research and treatment. Evren will create the Phoenix Laboratory, the first non-invasive vagal nerve stimulator designed to meet the complex needs of both researchers and patients. In Phase I, Evren will develop the stimulator and...
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) awarded a $6,522,833 Project Grant to The Leland Stanford Junior University to conduct a mechanistic randomized clinical trial investigating the central and peripheral nervous system mechanisms of pain relief induced by peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) for the treatment of refractory chronic neuropathic pain. The 3-year study, funded under the NIH HEAL Initiative's CFDA 93.279 Drug Abuse and Addiction Research Programs, aims...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $634,238 to the University of Texas at Austin to develop and demonstrate the feasibility of a real-time, personalized brain state-dependent transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) system for enhancing post-stroke hand rehabilitation. The key objectives are to: 1) establish the feasibility of delivering...
This $750,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program will fund the development of appropriate rehabilitation technology for stroke survivors through passive tactile stimulation. The Leland Stanford Junior University will lead an interdisciplinary team including universities, hospitals, and community organizations to finalize the team composition, generate use cases, and develop a comprehensive research plan including initial...
This $115,881 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), supports research to evaluate the use of operant conditioning of the wrist extensor motor evoked potential (MEP) as a therapy to improve upper limb motor recovery in individuals with cervical spinal cord injury (SCI). The project aims to apply this non-invasive brain stimulation technique to target...
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) awarded a $3,565,780 Project Grant under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) to The General Hospital Corporation, doing business as Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), to develop a groundbreaking high-frequency trans-spinal magnetic stimulation (HF-TSMS) system for the non-invasive treatment of neuropathic pain. The funded project aims to create an HF-TSMS tool that can target neural pathways involved in...
This $450,213 National Science Foundation project grant will fund research at Loyola University of Chicago to develop a fundamental theory for using electrical modalities to enhance physical rehabilitation outcomes. Specifically, the grantee will investigate how best to use neuromodulation techniques to improve the results of neurorehabilitation by incorporating different electrical stimulation sequences. The research aims to provide insights into how peripheral nerve stimulation can assist axon...
This Project Grant award, valued at $690,763.00 and funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program, aims to optimize responsive neurostimulation (RNS) therapy for treating drug-resistant epilepsy. The key objectives are to: 1) Identify patient-specific white matter connectivity, structural imaging, and stimulation field modeling factors that influence...