Across realms of neuroscience and microtechnology, UW and the Massachussets Institute of Technology are working to build a better device that can regularly record signals in the brain, which could...
Depression and type 2 diabetes were each associated with an increased risk for dementia. The risk was even greater among individuals diagnosed with both depression and diabetes, according to work led...
For more than 15 years, burn patients at Harborview Medical Center have donned a head-mounted display to play a virtual-reality game while undergoing painful dressing changes and other therapies. ...
The last time Sean Maloney’s legs worked, they straddled his motocross in midair at the Riverdale Raceways in southwest Washington. Maloney, then 18, launched himself from the earth and landed badly...
Researchers at the UW Medicine, Veteran's Administration Puget Sound and Saint Louis University have made a promising discovery that insulin delivered high up in the nasal cavity goes to affected...
In August UW Medicine announced plans to create a Sports Health and Safety Institute at Harborview Medical Center, to be focused on the research, education, prevention and treatment of sports-related...
On a computer monitor at Harborview Medical Center, Dr. Michael Levitt rotates a 3-D angiogram that maps the blood flow to a patient’s brain. As a collective, the vessels evoke a tree canopy; then...
A study published today in JAMA Pediatrics links the use of antidepressants during pregnancy to an increased risk of autism in children.
Dr. Bryan King, program director of Seattle Children’s Autism...
A wearable device that creates electrical fields to suppress cancer cells’ proliferation in the brain was so effective at extending patients’ survival that the clinical trial in which it was being...
Using electrodes implanted in the temporal lobes of awake patients, scientists have decoded brain signals at nearly the speed of perception. Further, analysis of patients’ neural responses to two...