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VA Research Currents archive
VA developing cutting-edge tools in fight against smokingeterans smoke cigarettes at higher rates than their civilian counterparts, a sobering thought given that some 21 percent of the general population regularly smokes...Learn more |
Lab study: Microdevice restores function in damaged brainsUntil recently, doctors believed that injuries to the brain were discrete, meaning damage was isolated to the injured area. The brain was seen as a collection of independent areas...Learn more |
Can magnetic coil ease tinnitus? VA trial aims to find outIn TMS, clinicians hold a magnetic coil, usually in the form of a figure eight, against the skull. The coil emits repetitive electromagnetic pulses that reach the brain cells under the scalp and change their activity pattern...Learn more |
Israeli prize to BrainGate teamThe Brown University-VA research team that created the investigational BrainGate brain-computer interface won a major international award, the $1 million Moshe Mirilashvili Memorial Fund B.R.A.I.N. Prize, at a brain science technology conference in Israel this past October...Learn more |
Stem cell breakthrough uses adult bloodResearchers at VA and Loma Linda University in Southern California have discovered a way to reprogram adult blood cells into stem cells. ...Learn more |
Easing the pressureVA-Case Western Reserve team working on simple but elegant solution for preventing pressure ulcers... Learn more |