S4 E1: What in the world is a Bioelectronic Medicine?

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What in the world is a Bioelectronic Medicine?

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• Link to Schema on Bioelectronics Medicines Framework: here
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Episode Description:

“Tis but thy name that is my enemy;

Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.

What’s Montague? It is not hand, nor foot,

Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part

Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose

By any other name would smell as sweet;

So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call’d,

Retain that dear perfection which he owes

Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,

And for that name which is no part of thee

Take all myself.

For those of us in the field, we know conceptually what bioelectronic medicine is, but we’ve also spent a few years trying to clearly define it as it pertains to the larger fields of #neurotechnology and #neuromodulation. We all have an opinion. A theory. A thought. But in the end, which matters more? What we call it or what it is?

In our Bioelectronic Medicine Series, we will endeavour to build consensus around a definition for Bioelectronic Medicine while digging into the history, opportunities, and future. We’ll start today with some background and an overview that will allow new listeners and people outside of the field to join us for another amazing Skraps journey.

So, as Tim Dennison (Prof, University of Oxford and former head of engineering at Medtronic) is fond of saying (while toasting with an appropriate pint of suds) “Here’s to neuromodulation, in all of its forms.”

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Recordings were mixed and mastered by Swaminathan Thirugnanasambandam. The content was created by Arun Sridhar & JoJo Platt and the episode was edited by Arun Sridhar.