POSTS TAGGED AS Neurology

A Giant Step for iPSC’s

In a “world’s first” for primates, researchers at Keio University in Tokyo implanted induced pleuripotent stem cells (derived from [MORE]

Smart Chips for Chronic Pain

Researchers at a national laboratory in Sydney, Australia have developed a tiny (about the size of a match head) [MORE]

The Patient Channel

When does a behavioral intervention have the greatest effect?  The Patient Channel supposes that moment is when the patient [MORE]

Culturing Brain Tissue

In tissue culturing a medullary preparation, technicians often use a tilt device that manipulates the sample on two axes.  [MORE]

Gene Therapy for the Brain-an Outpatient Procedure?

Gene therapists have been experimenting with genetically modified SV-40 virus as a vector for many years.  Neurologists have known for [MORE]

Artificial Touch

Under a $5.6m DARPA grant, researchers at Southern Methodist University’s Neurophotonics Research Center are developing fiber optic threads that [MORE]

The Human Connectome Project

Over the next five years, the National Institutes of Health will be funding a $40m project to scan the [MORE]

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]

Traumatic Brain Injury Reseach

Don DuRousseau, CEO and Senior Scientist at Human Bionics LLC,   discusses issues of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and the [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]