Study: Brain stimulation can work–if properly timed

By SharpBrains | April 21, 2017

—– Elec­tri­cal Stim­u­la­tion To Boost Mem­o­ry: Maybe It’s All In The Tim­ing (NPR): “Peo­ple with a brain injury or demen­tia often strug­gle to remem­ber sim­ple things, like names or places. In research pub­lished Thurs­day in the jour­nal Cur­rent Biol­o­gy, sci­en­tists have shown it may be pos­si­ble to improve this sort of mem­o­ry using tiny pulses…

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Monitoring physiological and health data via non-contact sensors: Key neurotechnology patent #33

By SharpBrains | March 21, 2017
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Today we dis­cuss a neu­rotech patent very rel­e­vant to non-con­­tact neu­romon­i­tor­ing sen­sors (as an alter­na­tive to skin-con­­tact elec­trodes), which may play an impor­tant role in mea­sur­ing brain activ­i­ty in the near future. U.S. Patent No. 7,485,095: Mea­sure­ment and analy­sis of trends in phys­i­o­log­i­cal and/or health data Inventor(s): Vladimir Shus­ter­man Tech­nol­o­gy Cat­e­go­ry: Hybrid Issue Date: February…

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Monitoring neurological activity to detect epileptic seizures: Key Neurotech Patent #9

By SharpBrains | February 9, 2017

—– Today we are shar­ing a 2002 patent assigned to Neu­ropace, Inc. (As men­tioned, we are fea­tur­ing a foun­da­tion­al Per­va­sive Neu­rotech patent a day, from old­er to new­er by issue date) U.S. Patent No. 6,473,639: Neu­ro­log­i­cal event detec­tion pro­ce­dure using processed dis­play chan­nel based algo­rithms and devices incor­po­rat­ing these pro­ce­dures. Assignee(s): Neu­ropace, Inc. Inventor(s): David R. Fis­chell, Jonathan…

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Reservoir electrodes for electroencephalograph headgear appliance: Key Neurotech Patent #5

By SharpBrains | February 4, 2017
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Today we are shar­ing a 2001 patent assigned to Sed­line, Inc. (As men­tioned, we are fea­tur­ing a foun­da­tion­al Per­va­sive Neu­rotech patent a day, from old­er to new­er by issue date) U.S. Patent No. 6,301,493: Reser­voir elec­trodes for elec­troen­cephalo­graph head­gear appli­ance. Assignee(s): Sed­line, Inc. Inventor(s): Dominic P. Mar­ro, Thomas T. Wash­burn, Denis E. LaBom­bard Tech­nol­o­gy Cat­e­go­ry: EEG Issue Date: October…

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Trend: From brain surgery towards non-invasive brain stimulation therapies

By SharpBrains | June 19, 2015

. BRAIN-STIMULATING HELMET MAY HELP PARKINSON’S PATIENTS (Pop­u­lar Sci­ence): “When Michelle Lane was inca­pac­i­tat­ed by Parkin­son’s dis­ease, her best option was brain surgery. Elec­tri­cal leads were sur­gi­cal­ly implant­ed into her skull, and a pace­­mak­er-like device installed to deliv­er elec­tri­cal sig­nals to the move­ment region of the brain. Now

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Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) as depression treatment: much promise, some DIY risks

By Drs. Kerrie-Anne Ho and Colleen Loo | December 5, 2014 |

Around 350 mil­lion peo­ple world­wide have depres­sion. Anti­de­pres­sant med­ica­tions are often pre­scribed to treat the con­di­tion, along­side talk­ing ther­a­pies and lifestyle changes such as reg­u­lar exer­cise. But a sub­stan­tial pro­por­tion of peo­ple either don’t respond to anti­de­pres­sants, or expe­ri­ence such sig­nif­i­cant side effects that they’d pre­fer not to take them. In search of 

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