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Electrical stimulation may help bring back the voice of stroke patients

A Virginia Tech College of Engineering researcher is seeking a new way to help those who are unable to speak to find their voice. But this isn't "The King's Speech," the Academy Award-winning film about a British royal undergoing speech therapy to battle a stammer. Instead, Alexander Leonessa wants to help bring back the voice of stroke patients and others who have suffered paralysis of the vocal folds, through electrical stimulation.

4 Mar 2011

Acupressure improves cognitive function in patients with mild traumatic brain injury

A new University of Colorado Boulder study indicates an ancient form of complementary medicine may be effective in helping to treat people with mild traumatic brain injury, a finding that may have implications for some U.S. war veterans returning home.

1 Mar 2011

Meditation leads to stronger mind-body connection than dancing

The body is a dancer's instrument, but is it attuned to the mind? A new study from the University of California, Berkeley, suggests that professional ballet and modern dancers are not as emotionally in sync with their bodies as are people who regularly practice meditation.

25 Feb 2011

HRS invites NewCardio to present CardioBip system clinical study results at Annual Scientific Meeting

NewCardio, Inc., a cardiovascular diagnostic solutions developer, announced today that the Company has been invited by the Heart Rhythm Society to present results of a recent clinical study showing that recurrent atrial fibrillation was accurately and timely detected in patients who used CardioBip for daily monitoring following catheter ablation procedures.

25 Feb 2011

Scientists suggest that lateral habenula can be a prime locus of human depression

A team of neuroscientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory and UC San Diego has collected evidence suggesting that a previously overlooked portion of the brain could be a prime locus of human depression.

24 Feb 2011

Autism could be detected earlier and easier: Study

Scientists at Boston may have found the beginnings of a non-invasive diagnostic test that can detect abnormal brain waves that suggest increased risk for autism – a debilitating neurological disorder in babies. This test would be safe, inexpensive, and easy to perform and could make it possible for at-risk kids to get help right away rather than having to wait until months or years later, which is now the case with the behavioral tests believe experts.

22 Feb 2011

Noninvasive test to evaluate risk of ASD in infants

A computational physicist and a cognitive neuroscientist at Children's Hospital Boston have come up with the beginnings of a noninvasive test to evaluate an infant's autism risk.

22 Feb 2011

Role of hybrid Brain Computer Interface in people with paraplegia

"Brain Computer Interface" pursues the objective to extract information from human brain waves in order to provide persons suffering from severe disabilities with a communication system.

21 Feb 2011

Deep brain stimulation therapy promising against severe OCD

When obsessive-compulsive disorder is of crippling severity and drugs and behavior therapy can't help, there has been for just over a year a thread - or rather a wire - of hope. By inserting a thin electrode deep into the brain, doctors can precisely deliver an electrical current to a cord of the brain's wiring and soften the severity of the symptoms. "Deep brain stimulation" therapy for OCD won Food and Drug Administration approval in 2009 for extreme cases under its humanitarian device exemption.

19 Feb 2011

Pittsburgh researchers awarded funds for testing brain-computer interfaces in patients with spinal cord injuries

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have been awarded funding for two projects that will place brain-computer interfaces (BCI) in patients with spinal cord injuries to test if it is possible for them to control external devices, such as a computer cursor or a prosthetic limb, with their thoughts.

18 Feb 2011

Iworx introduces 2011 Product Catalog of physiology teaching and advanced research solutions

iWorx, a developer of advanced physiology research and teaching tools, has introduced its 2011 Product Catalog of physiology teaching and advanced research solutions.

9 Feb 2011

UW research receives Keck Foundation grant to restore lost brain function using neurochips

Tiny, implantable computers that would restore brain function lost to disease or injury is the goal of University of Washington research recently funded by a $1 million, three-year grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation.

9 Feb 2011

Scientists monitor frequencies of brain activity to unleash new insights into how it works

Like listeners adjusting a high-tech radio, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have tuned in to precise frequencies of brain activity to unleash new insights into how the brain works.

9 Feb 2011

Study: Fluorescent probe may serve as useful tool in future surgeries to repair injured nerves

Accidental damage to thin or buried nerves during surgery can have severe consequences, from chronic pain to permanent paralysis. Scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine may have found a remedy: injectable fluorescent peptides that cause hard-to-see peripheral nerves to glow, alerting surgeons to their location even before the nerves are encountered.

6 Feb 2011

NeuroMetrix fourth quarter total revenues decrease to $3.1 million

NeuroMetrix, Inc., a science-based health care company transforming patient care through neurotechnology, today reported business and financial highlights for the quarter and year ended December 31, 2010.

3 Feb 2011

Coordinated behavior occurs whether or not neurons are actually connected via synapses

The brain-awake and sleeping-is awash in electrical activity, and not just from the individual pings of single neurons communicating with each other. In fact, the brain is enveloped in countless overlapping electric fields, generated by the neural circuits of scores of communicating neurons.

3 Feb 2011

Physicians suggest new target structure for deep brain stimulation

Nearly ten percent of all cases of depression are so severe that the patients do not respond to any established treatment method. Targeted stimulation of areas in the brain using a type of "brain pacemaker" has recently raised hopes: According to initial studies, half of patients with the most severe depression treated in this manner see a significant improvement in mood.

31 Jan 2011

Inovio announces regulatory approval for Phase 2 trial to treat leukemia using new vaccine delivery device

Inovio Pharmaceuticals, a leader in the development of therapeutic and preventive vaccines against cancers and infectious diseases, announced today the regulatory approval of a Phase 2 clinical trial to treat leukemia utilizing Inovio's new ELGEN 1000 automated vaccine delivery device.

31 Jan 2011

Boston Scientific reports first U.S. use of Blazer Open-Irrigated Catheter in BLOCk-CTI clinical trial

Boston Scientific Corporation today announced the first use of the Blazer® Open-Irrigated Catheter in the U.S. as part of the BLOCk-CTI clinical trial. BLOCk-CTI is a prospective, randomized trial evaluating the safety and effectiveness of the Blazer Open-Irrigated Catheter in patients with sustained or recurrent Type 1 atrial flutter.

28 Jan 2011

As recording technology rapidly improves, neurons give up their secrets cell by cell

Scientists at The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC), designated the "#1 Rehabilitation Hospital in America" by U.S. News & World Report since 1991, report that, thanks to improvements in technology and data analysis, our understanding of the functional principles that guide the development and operation of the brain could improve drastically in the next few years.

27 Jan 2011

Electrode News and Research

Electrical stimulation may help bring back the voice of stroke patients

Acupressure improves cognitive function in patients with mild traumatic brain injury

Meditation leads to stronger mind-body connection than dancing

HRS invites NewCardio to present CardioBip system clinical study results at Annual Scientific Meeting

Scientists suggest that lateral habenula can be a prime locus of human depression

Autism could be detected earlier and easier: Study

Noninvasive test to evaluate risk of ASD in infants

Role of hybrid Brain Computer Interface in people with paraplegia

Deep brain stimulation therapy promising against severe OCD

Pittsburgh researchers awarded funds for testing brain-computer interfaces in patients with spinal cord injuries

Iworx introduces 2011 Product Catalog of physiology teaching and advanced research solutions

UW research receives Keck Foundation grant to restore lost brain function using neurochips

Scientists monitor frequencies of brain activity to unleash new insights into how it works

Study: Fluorescent probe may serve as useful tool in future surgeries to repair injured nerves

NeuroMetrix fourth quarter total revenues decrease to $3.1 million

Coordinated behavior occurs whether or not neurons are actually connected via synapses

Physicians suggest new target structure for deep brain stimulation

Inovio announces regulatory approval for Phase 2 trial to treat leukemia using new vaccine delivery device

Boston Scientific reports first U.S. use of Blazer Open-Irrigated Catheter in BLOCk-CTI clinical trial

As recording technology rapidly improves, neurons give up their secrets cell by cell

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