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Neurotechnology Conference at Brown
by Megan Hall
WRNI (June 9, 2008)

The brain may hold the answer to healing patients who thought they were beyond help. That's according to scientists gathering this week at Brown University. They're meeting to discuss their work creating brain implants that do everything from moving artificial limbs to treating mental health. WRNI's health care reporter Megan Hall has the story of a Rhode Island man who was the first American to use this new technology to treat his obsessive compulsive disorder.




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