Month: October 2021

Stronger Breast Implant Safety Measures Announced by FDA

A boxed warning and a checklist of risks that must be shared with patients is among the new breast implant safety measures announced by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday. As the FDA “continues to evaluate the overall effects of breast implants in patients,… Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David […]

Published on October 28, 2021

Quantifying the Landscape of Decision Making From Spiking Neural Networks

The decision making function is governed by the complex coupled neural circuit in the brain. The underlying energy landscape provides a global picture for the dynamics of the neural decision making system and has been described extensively in the literature, but often as illustrations. In this work, we explicitly quantified the landscape for perceptual decision […]

Published on October 28, 2021

Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Background: Parkinson’s disease is a common neurodegenerative disorder with motor and non-motor symptoms. Recently, as adjuvant therapy, transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has been shown to improve the motor and non-motor function of patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). This systematic review aimed to evaluate the existing evidence for the efficacy of tDCS for PD. We […]

Published on October 28, 2021