UCLA brain stimulation research using ultrasound to jump-start a man’s brain following a coma is the eighth best thing that happened in 2016, Wired reports in its ‘Best of 2016’ edition. The research may lead to new ways to treat patients in coma.
“We've rounded up the best developments in science, technology and pop culture,” Wired writes in its introduction.
The UCLA researchers are Martin Monti, the study’s lead author and a UCLA associate professor of psychology and neurosurgery; Paul Vespa, a UCLA professor of neurology and neurosurgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA ; and Alexander Bystritsky, a UCLA professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences in the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior.
Read about their research here.
Also on Wired’s list of the best of 2016: The population of wild tigers has increased for the first time in 100 years; Zika has been downgraded as a global threat; we are closer to curing HIV; and 55 countries reached an agreement in Paris to minimize climate change (Wired ranked this climate accord No. 13 on the list, five places below the UCLA brain stimulation research).
