However, a device called a brain pacemaker implanted in the brain stem can send electrical impulses to specific parts of the brain, like a regular pacemaker does in the heart.

尽管如此，一种植入脑干被称为脑起搏器的装置能够像有规律的起搏器作用于心脏那样，将电脉冲送入大脑的具体部位。

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“You can’t cremate any kind of electronic device like a cell phone or hearing aid or pacemaker,” says Perman.

不能和手机、助听器、心脏起搏器这样的电子产品,一起火化。

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When he turned his attention to medical devices, he had the key insight that a pacemaker is like a tiny satellite within the body.

后来他将精力转向医疗设备领域，他发现了一个有趣的事：心脏起搏器在身体里就像一颗小卫星一般。

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He would like other centers in the United States and Europe to form their own pacemaker reutilization programs.

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It's a device called a deep brain stimulator, developed by a company called Medtronic, and it looks like a pacemaker that's implanted inside your body.

这个装置叫做深部脑刺激器,由美敦力公司研发,看上去像一个植入体内的起搏器

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Like the cardiac pacemaker, one of which we show on the exhibition as well."

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Unlike stimulation for treatment of Parkinson's or other issues, in which the brain is stimulated continuously or repeatedly with an implanted pacemaker-like device, memory in the latest study was improved by a single burst of current when administered in the right location as memories were being formed, according to Dr. Fried.

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This wouldn't be able to replicate the function of the vestibular system, but it could act like a pacemaker for people who have attacks that make the vestibular system go haywire, like sufferers of Meniere's disease.

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The goal is for the system to be wireless with everything contained in the body, much like a pacemaker, he says.

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