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Epilepsy relief relies on research — NTH Director Sri Sarma profiled

With NIH support, biomedical engineer Sri Sarma develops neurotechnologies to improve understanding and treatment of epilepsy.

Johns Hopkins biomedical engineer Sri Sarma is developing new technologies to pinpoint the exact origin of seizures in the brain—life-changing work for the roughly 21 million epilepsy patients worldwide whose seizures aren’t relieved by medications.

Removing the specific brain region where seizures originate is the last resort when medication fails. But current clinical tools make precisely locating the epileptogenic zone (EZ) extremely difficult, rendering surgery effective in only about half the cases. With funding from the National Institutes of Health, Sarma and her team help surgeons determine if and where they should operate, improving the success rate of epilepsy surgeries.

Read full article here.

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Feeling is believing: Bionic hand ‘knows’ what it’s touching, grasps like a human — NTH PI Nitish Thakor profiled

NeuroTech Harbor is proud to share that NTH Technical Director Nitish Thakor’s work on an advanced prosthetic hand that ‘knows’ what it is holding and carefully conforms and adjusts its grasp to avoid damaging or mishandling the object was recently featured in an online publication by Johns Hopkins University!

Read more about Dr. Thakor’s work here: https://hub.jhu.edu/2025/03/05/prosthetic-robotic-hand/

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NeuroTech Roadshow Podcast #1 in March 2025

The NTH Outreach Team is excited to announce the upcoming launch of our podcast, NeuroTech Roadshow. Beginning in March 2025, we will be publishing one podcast episode a month featuring industry experts, thought leaders, patients/patient advocates, and more to raise awareness of neurological disorders and facilitate the sharing of knowledge to accelerate neurotechnology advancement. The podcast will dive into topics including the neurological disorders that affect 1-in-3 people worldwide, cutting edge neuromedical interventions (both invasive and non-invasive), lived patient experience with neurological disorders, the ethics of neurotechnology, and more.

The Outreach Team is currently planning the first six episodes of the podcast, to be published from March through August 2025. Please check this space as we finalize the guest for episode 1.

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NeuroTech Roadshow Podcast #2 in April 2025

The NTH Outreach Team is excited to announce the upcoming launch of our podcast, NeuroTech Roadshow. Beginning in March 2025, we will be publishing one podcast episode a month featuring industry experts, thought leaders, patients/patient advocates, and more to raise awareness of neurological disorders and facilitate the sharing of knowledge to accelerate neurotechnology advancement. The podcast will dive into topics including the neurological disorders that affect 1-in-3 people worldwide, cutting edge neuromedical interventions (both invasive and non-invasive), lived patient experience with neurological disorders, the ethics of neurotechnology, and more.

The Outreach Team is currently planning the first six episodes of the podcast, to be published from March through August 2025. Episode 2 will feature Dr. Sri Sarma and her research into misdiagnosed non-epileptic seizures.