Brain-Machine Interfaces
A brain-machine interface.
What is something that maps or coordinates the brain's electrical outputs to an external device?
Telemedicine is defined as...
What is the use of electronic information and communications technologies to provide and support healthcare when distance separates the participants.
This type of surgery uses a robotic system—commonly the da Vinci system—to enhance precision and allow surgeons to operate through tiny incisions.
What is robotic-assisted surgery?
This hormone, sometimes called the “love hormone,” helps stimulate uterine contractions during labor and milk let-down during breastfeeding.
What is oxytocin?
This type of immunity occurs when enough people in a population are vaccinated or immune, indirectly protecting those who are not immune.
What is herd immunity?
BMIs take advantage of this unique trait of the brain.
What is neural plasticity?
After COVID decreased, virtual health visits experienced an increase, stayed the same, or decreased.
What is decrease?
First successfully performed in 1967 by Christiaan Barnard in Cape Town, this groundbreaking procedure replaced a failing organ with one from a donor.
What is a heart transplant?
This term refers to the death of a woman during pregnancy or shortly after, and it is commonly used as a key indicator of a country’s health system.
What is maternal mortality?
This measure describes the number of new cases of a disease that develop in a population during a specific time period.
What is incidence?
The first BMI was invented in this year.
What is 1973?
The type of visit with the highest percentage of visits done through telehealth compared to other outpatient visits.
What is Mental Health/Substance Use Disorder?
Instead of large incisions, this modern approach to surgery uses very small cuts and cameras, often resulting in less pain and faster recovery.
What is minimally invasive surgery?
This neural tube defect, prevented by folic acid supplementation, can occur when the spinal column does not close completely during early development.
What is spina bifida?
Developed by Jonas Salk and introduced in 1955, this vaccine helped nearly eliminate a viral disease that once caused widespread paralysis in children.
What is the polio vaccine?
Individuals were able to type letters with their brains by using this machine in 1988.
What is the P300 speller?
The percentage of telehealth visits has peaked at this number for the type of visit that sees the highest percent of telehealth visits.
What is 40%? anywhere from 30%-50% is ok.
This emerging technology uses patient imaging data and headsets to project digital images onto a surgeon’s field of view, helping guide procedures in real time.
What is augmented reality?
This virus, which caused a major outbreak in 2015–2016 in Brazil, can be transmitted from mother to fetus and is linked to microcephaly.
What is Zika virus?
This federal U.S. agency monitors disease outbreaks, issues vaccination recommendations, and played a central role in the COVID-19 response.
What is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?
These three types of techniques were mentioned and are used to measure brain activity and for BMI purposes.
What are an EEG, MEG, and fMRI?
AI helps patients through these three methods
What is remote monitoring through wearables, collecting health data before visits, using decision tools to help patients, and automating notes/follow-up?
only need three of these.
This gene-editing technology, increasingly being tested in clinical trials, allows surgeons and physicians to precisely modify DNA and has been explored for treating inherited blood disorders.
What is CRISPR-Cas9?
In the United States, this federal nutrition program provides food support and health referrals to low-income pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers, and young children.
What is Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)?
This epidemiologic measure compares the risk of a health outcome in an exposed group to the risk in an unexposed group and is commonly used in cohort studies.
What is relative risk?