Posts Tagged ‘Parkinsons’
How to detect brain health problems early: Examples in Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s, anxiety and PTSD
? Rethinking and Retooling Brain Health and Mental Health from SharpBrains Hoping you enjoy this slidedeck supporting a great discussion held during the 2019 SharpBrains Virtual Summit: The Future of Brain Health (March 7–9th). Full recordings are available for purchase here. 9–10.30am. How to detect problems early: Examples in Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s, anxiety and PTSD Dr. Srijan Sen, Professor…
Read MoreJan Samzelius, CEO of Brainnovations Winner NeuraMetrix, encourages pioneers to focus on “simple, elegant solutions to big problems”
What surprised you the most from the Judges’ questions and feedback during the Brainnovations Pitch Contest last month? Even with only a brief presentation the judges immediately got the potential impact of our technology to measure and monitor brain health and began to think about other applications for us – several we had not thought about. That…
Read MoreNext: Targeted neurotechnology to augment–perhaps even take over–neuropharmacology
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
Read MoreAccelerating brain health research via online registries
San Francisco-based online ‘brain registry’ seeks volunteers to transform research (San Jose Mercury News): “By volunteering — repeatedly over time — participants join a pool of research subjects in the new Brain Health Registry, opened Tuesday, for studies on brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, as well as depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and other neurological…
Read MoreMedicare updates reimbursement criteria for “maintenance” therapy services
A Quiet “Sea Change” in Medicare (The New York Times): “In January, Medicare officials updated the agency’s policy manual –the rule book for everything Medicare does– to erase any notion that improvement
Read MoreGood survey of brain stimulation methods, value and limitations
Stimulating the Brain: From If to How (The Dana Foundation): “Recent years have brought modern methods of brain stimulation into the mainstream of neurology and psychiatry. But their mechanism—how exactly deep brain stimulation (DBS) relieves Parkinson’s disease symptoms and how repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) improves depression, for example—remains obscure. Research
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