A pair of Rice University students are harnessing cutting-edge neuroscience to design an affordable, wearable solution for people living with Parkinson’s disease around the world.
Undergraduate engineering students Emmie Casey and Tomi Kuye, under the guidance of Maria Oden and Heather Bisesti with support from the Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen (OEDK), have created a vibrotactile glove that aims to reduce the debilitating symptoms of Parkinson’s through a noninvasive approach. Their design is based on promising research out of the Peter Tass lab at Stanford University, which explores how randomized vibratory stimuli delivered to the fingertips could help rewire misfiring neurons in the brain — a hallmark of Parkinson’s disease.
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