Article Excerpt: A first-of-its-kind brain chip that would be used to treat severe mental disorders is being developed in the Twin Cities. A team at the University of Minnesota Medical School recently received a $6.6 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to create, build and test a brain implant. “It’s going to be a chip, like a millimeter on each side, maybe even less, but it is going to be the heart of this new technology,” said Dr. Alik Widge, an assistant professor in the medical school’s psychiatry department, who is the principal investigator on the project…Dr. Widge said people with severe mental health disorders often have brain waves that are out of sync. He believes the key to fixing the problem is getting the circuit reconnected.
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