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A low power micro deep brain stimulation device for murine preclinical research
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posted on 2013-01-01, 00:00 authored by Abbas KouzaniAbbas Kouzani, O Abulseoud, Susannah Tye, Md Kamal Hosain, Michael BerkMichael BerkDeep brain stimulation has emerged as an effective medical procedure that has therapeutic efficacy in a number of neuropsychiatric disorders. Preclinical research involving laboratory animals is being conducted to study the principles, mechanisms, and therapeutic effects of deep brain stimulation. A bottleneck is, however, the lack of deep brain stimulation devices that enable long term brain stimulation in freely moving laboratory animals. Most of the existing devices employ complex circuitry, and are thus bulky. These devices are usually connected to the electrode that is implanted into the animal brain using long fixed wires. In long term behavioral trials, however, laboratory animals often need to continuously receive brain stimulation for days without interruption, which is difficult with existing technology. This paper presents a low power and lightweight portable microdeep brain stimulation device for laboratory animals. Three different configurations of the device are presented as follows: 1) single piece head mountable; 2) single piece back mountable; and 3) two piece back mountable. The device can be easily carried by the animal during the course of a clinical trial, and that it can produce non-stop stimulation current pulses of desired characteristics for over 12 days on a single battery. It employs passive charge balancing to minimize undesirable effects on the target tissue. The results of bench, in-vitro, and in-vivo tests to evaluate the performance of the device are presented.
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IEEE journal of translational engineering in health and medicineVolume
1Pagination
1 - 9Publisher
IEEELocation
Piscataway, N.J.Publisher DOI
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2168-2372Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
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