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Researchers Have Developed a Brain-Computer Interface That Adds a Soundtrack to Your Life
“The public currently perceives music predominantly as a medium for entertainment, but music has a much bigger footprint in human history than this. Historically, it’s served many important roles in society, from social cohesion to mother-infant bonding to healing,” say researchers who have developed a music-based brain-computer interface (BCI) that helps people struggling with ...
By ni2o, Inc.
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Synthetic Nicotine: What It Is and Its Risks
What is synthetic nicotine? Though synthetic nicotine has been around for a while, its presence has dramatically grown as it finds its way into e-cigarettes and vape products increasingly used by young individuals. Synthetic nicotine is created in a laboratory using chemicals – often of unknown origin and methods – rather than tobacco leaves. Because it’s a liquid, it’s ...
By Zeptive
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Deepwater Chemicals, Inc. host Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt on his Top Ten Cabinet Tour.
Deepwater hosted Governor Stitt, on July 31, 2019, at our Woodward, OK manufacturing site. The governor launched his Top Ten Cabinet tour in Woodward, OK. This tour allows the governor and his cabinet the opportunity to discuss the progress being made in our state during Stitt’s administration. Members of the Governor’s Cabinet include: Lt. Gov. Matt Pinnell, Secretary of Tourism ...
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RTsafe’s core role for the development of German guidelines for a standard, safe and efficient implementation of Single-Isocentric Multi-Focal SRS throughout the country
RTsafe is happy to announce that its PRIME and Pseudopatient 3D phantoms, have been selected by a consortium of high-end German Radiotherapy Institutions – led by the Division of Medical Physics of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Medical Center of University of Freiburg – towards supporting a study whose results will be used for the development of national guidelines in ...
By RTsafe
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Forge Reports Positive Clinical Data on Brain Development and Motor Function from the RESKUE Novel Phase 1/2 Gene Therapy Trial in Patients with Krabbe Disease at the SSIEM Annual Symposium
FBX-101 clinical data demonstrating safety and initial efficacy from the RESKUE trial is being presented at the 2022 Society for the Study of Inborn Errors of Metabolism (SSIEM) Annual Symposium FBX-101 is a systemic AAV gene therapy following unrelated cord blood transplantation (“UCBT”) and has been well tolerated through Day 180 FBX-101 significantly increased GALC enzyme ...
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Lead Acts to Trigger Schizophrenia
Study in Mice Points to a Synergistic Relationship Between Lead Exposure and Schizophrenia Gene Mice engineered with a human gene for schizophrenia and exposed to lead during early life exhibited behaviors and structural changes in their brains consistent with schizophrenia. Scientists at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins University School of ...
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Stem Pharm Awarded $1.7M NIH SBIR Grant for Better Models of the Brain
Stem Pharm has been awarded a $1.7 million SBIR grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to optimize its induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived model of the central nervous system for drug discovery and toxicology applications. Stem Pharm’s model fills a commercial need to accurately reflect the complexity of cell ...
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Green spaces linked to improved cognitive development in schoolchildren
Exposure of primary schoolchildren to outdoor green spaces is linked to an improvement in their cognitive development, finds a new study, which is the first of its kind. The association may be partly explained by reductions in traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) near green areas. Approximately half of the global population live in cities, and it is projected that by 2030, three of every five ...
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NRDC Sues EPA to Ban Two Toxic Pesticides in Pet Flea Collars
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) today filed a lawsuit in federal court against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) seeking EPA to respond to NRDC’s petitions to ban two hazardous pesticides used in popular pet flea treatment products. Due to concerns that the products can harm children’s brains and nervous systems, the agency has severely restricted household ...
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LOK Corporation and Sense Neuro Diagnostics Announce Commercial Partnership Focused on International Market
(August 17, 2021—Montreal, Canada and Cincinnati, Ohio) LOK Corporation, a manufacturing agent that helps companies develop and manage their international distribution network and Sense Neuro Diagnostics, a medical technology company focused on improving outcomes for stroke and brain injury patients today announced a commercial partnership to bring innovative brain scanners being developed ...
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atai Life Sciences acquires majority stake in Psyber, Inc., to develop Brain Computer Interface-enabled digital therapeutics targeting mental health disorders
atai Life Sciences ("atai" or the "Company"), a global biopharmaceutical company developing psychedelic and non-psychedelic compounds for various mental health indications, has acquired a majority stake in Delaware based Psyber, a company dedicated to developing interventions to improve various mental health disorders and induce behavioural changes through brain computer interface (BCI)-enabled ...
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Defymed and GlioCure initiate collaboration in the field of solid tumours without therapeutic options
Defymed, a Strasbourg-based medical technology company, and GlioCure, a neuro-oncology drug development company based in Angers, France, have set themselves the joint goal of exploring a new therapeutic approach for solid tumors that have no therapeutic option or that are resistant to standard treatments due to the overexpression of the TUBB3 protein. TUBB3 is a constitutive molecule of ...
By Defymed
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NRDC Sues EPA to Block New Pesticide That Threatens Monarch Butterflies, Human Health
The Natural Resources Defense Council today filed suit to block the use of a powerful, newly approved weed killer that will wreak further destruction on monarch butterfly populations already devastated by agricultural chemicals and poses risks to human health. The suit was filed in the D.C. Circuit court immediately after the Environmental Protection Agency approved the use of “Enlist ...
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MCS America Launches Vaccine/Mercury/Autism Webpage
Salem, NY - The Autism Society of America (2007) defines autism as a complex developmental disability that typically appears during the first three years of life and is the result of a neurological disorder that affects the normal functioning of the brain, impacting development in the areas of social interaction and communication skills. Both children and adults with autism typically show ...
By MCS America
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Forge Biologics Announces Updated Positive Clinical Data in RESKUE, a Novel Phase 1/2 Gene Therapy Trial for Patients with Krabbe Disease
Clinical data demonstrating initial safety and efficacy from the RESKUE trial are being presented by Chief Medical Officer Maria Escolar, M.D., at the 29th Congress of European Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (ESGCT), October 11-14, 2022 Subjects treated with FBX-101 have shown increased galactocerebrosidase (GALC) enzyme activity in plasma and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), normal white matter ...
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JAMA Highlights Success of BrainScope`s EEG-based Concussion Index As Reliable Indicator of Concussion
JAMA Network Open has published "Validation of a Machine Learning Brain Electrical Activity-Based Index to Aid in Diagnosing Concussion Among Athletes," a ground-breaking study on the accuracy of the BrainScope FDA-cleared biomarker, the Concussion Index, to indicate the likelihood and severity of concussive brain injury and to aid in evaluating an athlete's readiness to return to play. "What ...
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Women who start prenatal vitamins early are less likely to have children with autism
Women who reported not taking a daily prenatal vitamin immediately before and during the first month of pregnancy were nearly twice as likely to have a child with an autism spectrum disorder as women who did take the supplements — and the associated risk rose to seven times as great when combined with a high-risk genetic make-up, a study by researchers at the UC Davis MIND Institute has ...
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Prenatal exposure to insecticide Chlorpyrifos linked to alterations in brain structure and cognition
While No Longer Registered for Household Use in the U.S., the Insecticide Is Widely Used Around the World and in U.S. Agriculture Even low to moderate levels of exposure to the insecticide chlorpyrifos during pregnancy may lead to long-term, potentially irreversible changes in the brain structure of the child, according to a new brain imaging study by researchers from the Columbia Center for ...
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Defymed and GlioCure initiate collaboration in the field of solid tumours without therapeutic options
Defymed, a Strasbourg-based medical technology company, and GlioCure, a neuro-oncology drug development company based in Angers, France, have set themselves the joint goal of exploring a new therapeutic approach for solid tumors that have no therapeutic option or that are resistant to standard treatments due to the overexpression of the TUBB3 protein. TUBB3 is a constitutive molecule of ...
By Defymed
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Pesticides linked to childhood brain cancers
There is much grey matter surrounding causes of brain cancer in children, but there is increasing evidence indicating that a culprit may be pre-birth pesticide exposure. In a new study released by the National Institute of Health Sciences, herbicide use appeared to cause an elevated risk for cancer. The study found that children living in homes where their parents use pesticides are twice as ...
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