On this episode of Vital Spark, our new host, Dan Wagner, Chief Commercial Officer of Spark Biomedical, spoke with two representatives from the Medical University of South Carolina.

• Dorothea Jenkins, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics, Medical University of South Carolina Division of Neonatology, and 
• Bashar Badran, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the College of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences Medical University of South Carolina,

They are actively involved in treating this disorder and spoke about their combined efforts utilizing translational therapies with neurostimulation on babies with NOWS. 

Jenkins and Badran discuss: 

• The effects of certain opioids on the neurology of the brains of babies 
• New non-evasive brain stimulation treatments to combat NOWS 
• Learnings from utilizing auricular neurostimulation on babies with NOWS 

“We are on track towards the better understanding of reasonable, high-ranking hypothesis that may be the reason why we get such beneficial effects of auricular neurostimulation,” Badran said.” 

Dorothea Jenkins, M.D. is a professor of Pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina Division of Neonatology who does research and translational therapies for babies with brain injuries.

Bashard Badran, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the College of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina. He is a neuroscientist who works on brain stimulation research and device development.