Study: Wearable sensors and machine learning may well (one day) help detect a broad range of epileptic seizures

By SharpBrains | January 22, 2021

Wear­able Device Clears a First ‘Mile­stone’ in Seizure Detec­tion (Med­scape; requires sub­scrip­tion): A wrist-worn device that uses machine learn­ing accu­rate­ly detects dif­fer­ent seizure types in find­ings that have the poten­tial to rev­o­lu­tion­ize the man­age­ment of patients with epilep­sy. “We have set a first bench­mark for auto­mat­ic detec­tion of a vari­ety of epilep­tic seizures using wearable…

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How to intervene early to address brain/ mental health problems: Examples in depression, epilepsy and smoking cessation

By SharpBrains | July 18, 2019

How to inter­vene ear­ly: Exam­ples in depres­sion, epilep­sy and smok­ing ces­sa­tion from Sharp­Brains We hope you enjoy this slid­edeck sup­port­ing a fas­ci­nat­ing, for­ward-look­ing ses­sion held at the 2019 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: The Future of Brain Health (March 7–9th).  Full record­ings are avail­able for pur­chase here. 10.45am-12.15pm. How to inter­vene ear­ly: Exam­ples in depres­sion, epilep­sy and smok­ing ces­sa­tion  Dr. Wal­ter Greenleaf,…

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Next: Monitoring the body’s electrical signalling to enhance brain health

By SharpBrains | June 5, 2019

_______ READING THE BODY’S ELECTRICAL SIGNALS TO TREAT ILLNESS (Uni­ver­si­ty of Mel­bourne): “Chem­i­cal elec­tric­i­ty is how we move, think, and remem­ber. And increas­ing­ly, as tech­nol­o­gy minia­turis­es and com­put­er pow­er mul­ti­plies, it’s how we are treat­ing chron­ic ill­ness. Since the ful­ly implantable pace­mak­er was devel­oped in the 1950s to keep a patient’s heart beat­ing in rhythm…

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Study: Brain scans mapping language and memory areas can help guide epilepsy-related surgeries

By SharpBrains | January 13, 2017

Can brain scans help doc­tors nav­i­gate epilep­sy surgery? (UPI) “…When med­ica­tion does­n’t effec­tive­ly con­trol epilep­sy, surgery may be rec­om­mend­ed. Doc­tors can remove the part of the brain that trig­gers seizures or use cer­tain pro­ce­dures to con­trol seizure activ­i­ty. Before surgery, how­ev­er, the brain must be “mapped” to ensure the regions respon­si­ble for lan­guage and memory…

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Next: Targeted neurotechnology to augment–perhaps even take over–neuropharmacology

By SharpBrains | February 3, 2016

Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy offers new solu­tions to treat­ing brain dis­eases (Dell Tech Cul­ture): “A new wave of med­ical tech­nolo­gies is chang­ing the way we approach study­ing the brain and treat­ing patients suf­fer­ing from neu­ro­log­i­cal dis­eases and men­tal ill­ness. For peo­ple suf­fer­ing from Parkinson’s, epilep­sy, OCD and severe depres­sion, these tech­no­log­i­cal advance­ments are 

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Thinking globally to improve mental health: New NIH initiative

By SharpBrains | July 7, 2011

Think­ing glob­al­ly to improve men­tal health: NIH announces inter­na­tion­al research ini­tia­tive (press release): — “The Grand Chal­lenges in Glob­al Men­tal Health Ini­tia­tive, led by the Nation­al Insti­tutes of Health and the Glob­al Alliance for Chron­ic Dis­eases, has iden­ti­fied the top 40 bar­ri­ers to bet­ter men­tal health around the world. Sim­i­lar to past grand chal­lenges, which 

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