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“There could be very nice applications in other parts of the body,” says Todd Coleman, an associate professor at the University of California, San Diego. He suggests the tiny coils [in the brain implant] could be used to modulate activity in…the human digestive system…to help people with conditions in which the gut doesn’t move food along as it should.
Bernard Casse, a researcher at the PARC research institute, owned by Xerox, where the new implant design was invented…says he is interested in exploring use of the technology on the vagus nerve in the chest to control symptoms of PTSD.
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