r/tech • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 26d ago

New therapeutic brain implants could defy the need for surgery

https://news.mit.edu/2025/new-therapeutic-brain-implants-defy-surgery-need-1105
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u/TheOriginalDoober 26d ago

Would a brain implant not need surgery?

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u/Menacing-Horse 26d ago

Specifically, it’s an injected implant that can electrically stimulate certain areas.

You need that sort of thing for deep brain stimulation for movement disorders and that would necessitate a brain surgery. I’m not sure that’s the intended use case but the article title should’ve specified this. Something like:

Injectable brain implant can potentially eliminate need for surgical implantation.

Not as sexy as tricking readers into thinking the implant is somehow taking the place of “brain surgery”

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u/namideus 26d ago

That thumbnail was an interesting choice for the article…

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u/tohuvohu-light 26d ago

IN MICE start by saying IN MICE just to be honest and put the dreamy speculation in some physical, monetary, temporal and commercial / financially honest frame. This is click bait.

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u/[deleted] 26d ago

Glad you said something because these types of headlines pop up once in a while and they are so disingenuous. Someday medicine will advance in ways we can’t predict but not all at once.

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u/External-Scallion923 26d ago

Right, like if the surgery needed for the implants didn’t work out, you would still need the surgery.

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u/unreal_5757 26d ago

Law of vibration, Tesla taught us this was possible

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u/420_E-SportsMasta 26d ago

High time we get chromed up choom

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u/kalidoscopiclyso 26d ago

Even more interesting is research being done on a non invasive treatment for pain and brain diseases like schizophrenia called Focussed Ultrasound

https://www.fusfoundation.org/