In a First, People Had Their Brain Activity Tracked Remotely During Everyday Life - Gizmodo

They then used that data to adjust the treatment of people with Parkinson’s disease through deep brain stimulation.

Currently, for instance, it can take a long while and multiple hospital visits for doctors and patients to fine-tune the right level and timing of deep brain stimulation to best alleviate their symptoms, based on short-term readings of their brain activity.

But scientists at the University of California, San Francisco have been developing an adjustable form of the treatment, one that only sends out stimulation when it’s deemed necessary, based on real-time recordings of brain activity.

Finally, this information was used to adjust people’s deep brain stimulation if needed.

“This is the first device that allows for continuous and direct wireless recording of the entire brain signal over many hours,” said study author Phillipp Starr, a UCSF researcher, in a statement released by the National Institutes of Health, which helped fund the study.