POSTS TAGGED AS brain

Wearable Magnetoencephalography (MEG)

Wearable Brain Scanner New MEG Helmet
Magnetoencephalography is a technology that measures electrical transmission within the brain based on tiny (i.e. [MORE]

A Highly Accurate Stroke Detector

Cerebrotech Visor
Even within the so-called “golden hour,” stroke detection currently gets low marks. But a California company claims to have [MORE]

Memory Enhancing Brain Prosthetic

Memory Stimulation Brain Implant
At Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center epilepsy treatments include implanting electrodes in the brain which can stimulate [MORE]

Concussion Diagnosis: MicroRNAs in Saliva

Concussion
“Researchers [at Penn State Health Children’s Hospital] identified five microRNA molecules which “accurately identify” patients with concussion symptoms. Three of [MORE]

Brain Delivery of Drugs with Ultrathin Needle

Ultrathin Needle Delivers Medication to Brain
Quoting directly: “Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have devised a miniaturized system that can deliver [MORE]

An Artificial Synapse for “Brain-on-a-Chip” Device

Artificial Synapse Researchers Tan, Kim, Choi
Quoting directly: “. . . engineers at MIT have designed an artificial synapse in such [MORE]

Monitoring Neuronal Connections

TRACK
This story should be a companion piece to the one above: Caltech engineers have developed a “transneuronal control of transcription” [MORE]

LLNL’ Brain Chip

Brain-on-a-Chip
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is best known for developing advanced technologies for national security (i.e. nuclear weapons). But actually, it [MORE]

Allen Institute for Brain Research Opens It’s Cell Type Database to Researchers

Human Brain Tissue
The human brain is made up of some 86 billion neurons and sorting them into “types” is akin [MORE]

A Better Way to Make Organic Bioelectronics

Organic Bioelectronics
Most of today’s neural implants are made of metal. They have good conductivity between electrodes and neurons, but risk [MORE]

RNA Sequencing with a Microfluidics Device

Single Cell RNA Sequencing
In order to map a brain, investigators have to show different cells types, and differences in each [MORE]

Million Electrode Array for Brain-Computer Interface

Brain Electrode
Under DARPA’s Neural Engineering Systems Design Program, engineers at Columbia University have developed a high density electrode array that’s [MORE]

Mind-Reading Machine

Brain Activation Patterns Identify Thoughts
Here’s a conundrum to consider: does a comatose person have a privacy right to their thoughts? [MORE]

New Progress with Antisense Oligonucleotides

Reversing Ataxia in Mice
Ataxia, in its most severe form and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis share the same symptoms of life-threatening, deteriorating [MORE]