Boost REM Sleep with a Wearable
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Credit: Huiliang “Evan” Wang via The University of Texas in Austin A team of researchers led by The University of Texas in Austin have developed a soft wearable device called “NEUSLeeP” capable of stimulating deep brain regions and monitoring brain activity in real time. The study, published in Nature Communications, helped boost participants REM sleep. […]
Credit: Huiliang “Evan” Wang via The University of Texas in Austin
A team of researchers led by The University of Texas in Austin have developed a soft wearable device called “NEUSLeeP” capable of stimulating deep brain regions and monitoring brain activity in real time. The study, published in Nature Communications, helped boost participants REM sleep.
“This is the first time we’ve been able to noninvasively target deep brain regions involved in REM sleep, while simultaneously monitoring brain activity,” said Kai Wing “Kevin” Tang, a recent UT biomedical engineering Ph.D. graduate who led the research effort. “Our skin-attached NEUSLeeP patch opens up new possibilities for understanding sleep and treating sleep disorders in home settings,” added Huiliang “Evan” Wang, assistant professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering’s Department of Biomedical Engineering, who supervised Tang’s work and served as the principal investigator (PI) directing the overall project.