The startup behind the surgery is Inner Cosmos, one of a growing cadre of tech companies working on implanted devices for the brain. The trial, the first of its kind using implants in the bone of the skull to treat depression, represents a step forward for scientists’ efforts to treat mood disorders with hardware.“Any time you get a technology in a patient is a major milestone,” said Benjamin Rapoport, a New York-based brain surgeon who works with another company in the field.
That’s helpful for the company’s goal of creating a new mass-market tool for treatment-resistant depression, which affects an estimated 2.8 million US adults. In Los Angeles, a company called Kernel has moved away from deeper brain implants – and is now building an electrode-studded helmet that accomplishes similar goals but requires no surgery at all. And New York-based Synchron, which has raised more than US$60mil , avoids brain surgery by sending electrodes to the brain via blood vessels, in a stent.
If it works, the technique could eventually treat a much broader range of cognitive disorders. Inner Cosmos said surgery went well for its first patient.
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