Newsletter tagged with 'Neurology'
Convenient Biosensors for ECG and EEG Monitoring
With both electrocardiograms and electroencephalograms, patients have to have electrodes “stuck” on their skin to get good signals. Bioengineers [MORE]
Untangling Brain Pathways of Pretzel Syndrome
The mTOR pathway (named for the mammalian target of rapamycin), keys on a protein kinase that is involved in [MORE]
First Total Spine Arthroplasty
The FDA has issued an investigational device exemption to Flexuspine, Inc (Pittsburg, PA) to proceed with clinical trials of [MORE]
Stem Cell Therapy for Stroke Approved
Last month, The Financial Times reported that the UK Gene Therapy Advisory Committee has approved the world’s first stem [MORE]
Optical “Brain Pacer”
Medtronic (Minneapolis), maker of numerous medical implantable devices, is researching a brain implant that causes neural stimulation from alternative [MORE]
Brain Surgery Robot
IMRIS, Inc. (Winnipeg) has acquired another Canadian company, NeuroArm Sugical, Ltd. (Calgary) to further develop a robotic surgery [MORE]
Brain Implanted Neurotransmitter Sensors
Deep brain stimulation, for treating Parkinson’s disease, works even if it’s not known how. But to answer that question, [MORE]
Myomo Neuro-Robot
Myomo Inc. (Boston) takes its name from the Latin prefix, myo, meaning muscle. Rightly so, as Myomo is a [MORE]
Neuronal Regeneration
The axoloti salamander is the model organism the University of Florida’s McKnight Brain Institute is using to investigate neuronal [MORE]
Seizure Detection Technology
Two companies-Cyberonics (Houston, TX) and Flint Hills Scientific (Lawrence, KS) are teaming up to make a more effective, implantable device [MORE]
GPS Tracking of Alzheimer’s Patients
The Alzheimer’s Association (Chicago, IL) recently announced a new mobile monitoring system called “the Comfort Zone.” It uses wireless [MORE]
First Artificial Nerve Cell
Swedish researchers at a government-financed “Center of Excellence in Organic Bioelectronics” have developed an artificial nerve cell that, instead of [MORE]
Jacob Rosen Develops “Wearable” Robot
University of California at Santa Cruz engineer, Jacob Rosen, has developed a robotic “exoskeleton” that can assist disabled people in [MORE]
Micro Nerve Stimulators
RFID has many applications in healthcare, but a Dallas, TX company, MicroTransponder, has taken radio-frequency in a new direction altogether-making [MORE]
Teleneurology
The May 1, 2009 issue of Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association has an article by Lee H. Schwamm, [MORE]
“Smart” Neuro-Catheter
University of Cincinnati nanotech engineers have developed an early stage “smart’ catheter that drains cerebrospinal fluid from a brain trauma [MORE]
Don DuRoussueau, President of Human Bionics, to Develop “Brain Music” for Use by DHS
Insomnia, fatigue and headaches, from stress, afflict everyone from time to time, but when they unease first responders, like firefighters, [MORE]
Non-Invasive Brain Blood Flow Monitor
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s Comprehensive Neuroscience Center recently demonstrated a non-invasive portable monitor that measures brain blood flow [MORE]
Phages at Work
One of the problems bioengineers have to overcome with regenerating tissue is creating a scaffolding on which cells can link. [MORE]
Mayo Discontinues Its Clinical Trials Service Unit
The M/St.P Business Journal reports that the Mayo Clinic has announced that it will discontinue its Clinical Trial Services unit [MORE]