Mike Weisend – Treating the Brain from the Outside

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

"You can do stupid things with electricity," says Mike Weisend. Take poorly executed electroshock therapy for example. People end up literally frying their brains. It's like being struck by lightening, and the therapeutic effects of being struck by lightening—if there any—have not been approved by the FDA. However, it's undeniable that the brain is an electrical organ, and is effected by electricity. To better understand the cause and effect of electricity in the brain, Mike has been heading up research at RioGrandeNeuroScience, and developing therapies for illnesses are from depression to dementia.
"I'm a decent case study," says Weisend. "I've zapped myself pretty frequently to test new paradigms, or electroconfigurations… or new technologies…. And… I'm doin' alright. You know."
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0:00.0	Welcome to Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.
0:07.9	Future Technologies always to transform our lives for better or worse are the focus of this podcast.
0:13.6	Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.
0:17.7	We're just around the corner.
0:19.7	From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D around the corner, from Bitcoin to artificial intelligence,
0:22.0	3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.
0:25.5	Hi, this is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech Podcast. My guest today is Mike Weizand,
0:31.2	chief scientist at Rio Grande Neurosciences. Mike, how you doing?
0:36.2	Doing great. How about you?
0:37.9	Good. Yeah, thanks for coming.? Doing great. How about you? Good.
0:38.6	Yeah, thanks for coming.
0:39.8	So if you would, can you let guests know what Rio Grande Neurosciences does?
0:44.5	What's your main mission and what projects are you working on?
0:47.1	Right.
0:47.4	So Real Grand Neuroscience is a non-invasive brain stimulation Company that has three different technologies.
0:55.2	The first technology is something called PEMF or Pulse electromagnetic field therapy.
1:03.0	And it's approved for, it's FDA approved for pain and edema, especially post-surgically.
1:12.0	And then we have TMS, which is transpranial magnetic stimulation, which is FDA cleared for
1:21.2	depression.
1:23.8	And then we have electrical brain stimulation.
1:26.3	Electrical brain stimulation doesn't have an FDA clearance yet.
1:30.3	It's still experimental, but it has somewhere in neighborhood of 2000 publications over the last five years,
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