Design and development of tungsten microelectrodes to record neural data, Kerman Neural Research Center

Design and development of tungsten microelectrodes to record neural data, Kerman Neural Research Center

The correspondent of the Neuroengineering research team and the faculty member of Kerman Neural Research Center announced: researchers of neural research center of Kerman University of medical sciences in cooperation with electrical engineering department of Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, with support from Cognitive Sciences & Technologies Council, successfully designed and developed tungsten microelectrodes to record neural data.

He noted that Neuroengineering lab was established to be active in design and production of neural prosthetic implants, and said: presenting new and non-pharmaceutical technics to treat neural diseases like Parkinson's disease, ADHD, epilepsy, and other neural disorders using smart neural prosthetics was one of the main goals of this research team.

Dr. Abed Khorasani said this team produced four electrophysiology devices and assessed each of them in animal trials, and added: high strength tungsten microelectrodes with 30-micron thickness were designed and developed in the first stage and the electrochemical impedance and cortical data acquisition assessments of these electrodes, which was taking place in our sensory data processing lab, showed that these electrodes are comparable to foreign and more expensive devices.