brain research News
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New BESA Research workshop scheduled
The first BESA Research #workshop of 2022 will take place in May, from the 9th through to the 13th, on five consecutive half-days. The time zone will work best for Europe and Asia / Oceania. Basics and advanced methods of M/EEG data analysis in human brain #research will be covered extensively. Briefly, the workshop will include a journey from basic data review and pre-processing through source ...
By BESA GmbH
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Flosonics Medical accepted into the third cohort of the Lazaridis Scale-Up Program
The innovative program helps emerging companies achieve global success through workshops with international business experts and access to a national peer group of entrepreneurs Flosonics Medical, a Canadian medical device company headquartered in Northern Ontario, is pleased to announce that it was selected to participate in the third cohort of the Lazaridis Scale-Up Program. Facilitated by ...
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NeuroVigil`s iBrain Technology to Help Research Psychiatric Drugs, Assist in Understanding Neurological Disease
NeuroVigil, the company that developed iBrain, the world’s first portable brain scanner, has now partnered with a large pharmaceutical company which plans to deploy the iBrain technology in its pharmaceutical research. The iBrain allows for accurate recordings of single-channel EEG over extended periods from individuals with or without pathologies or treatment. NeuroVigil has a growing ...
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10 ways leaders can protect their reputations in 2011 - from reputation and crisis expert Davia Temin
"2010 was remarkable for its series of public gaffes made by CEOs and other leaders that shattered organizations, share price, job tenure, coastlines, and even religious tolerance," says reputation, crisis, and marketing advisor Davia Temin, CEO of Temin and Company. "In 2011, we can learn from their mistakes in order to protect our own reputations." "Of course," she adds, "one way to never need ...
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Balance, Nymbl, and our mission to prevent 1 million falls
If you’re over 65 you’ve no doubt seen plenty of information on BALANCE, most likely from your physician or the multitude of newsletters and articles that are written about aging. Maybe you go to fitness classes for seniors and your instructor works balance into your workouts. Why so much attention on balance? The data is staggering – 1 in 4 Americans aged 65+ ...
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Newton Howard at TEDx – The Human Brain
The evolution of humanity is based on the evolution of the human brain. What are the next steps in our evolutionary process and what is the role that technology will play? Dr. Howard leads the Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience in Oxford and the Laboratory of Synthetic Intelligence at MIT. He is a founding member of the Committee of two NGOs: the Howard Brain Sciences Foundation, which ...
By ni2o, Inc.
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Healthcare Industry Leader Scott Serota Joins Theranica Board of Directors
Theranica, a prescribed digital therapeutics company developing advanced electroceuticals for migraine and other pain conditions, today announced the appointment of Scott Serota to its Board of Directors. "Over the course of the past few decades, which I have dedicated to enabling patients of various medical conditions access to new treatments, I developed passion for supporting the advancement ...
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Bened Biomedical Affiliates US Distributor, Now Bened Life
Bened Biomedical Co, LTD., the global leader in psychobiotics with clinical studies, has acquired its US distributor Oryx Biomedical, Inc., who is pioneering the translation of microbiome research into impactful biotherapeutics and is one of the earliest stage companies bringing the gut-brain axis category of probiotics to the market. Based in Taiwan and founded by Prof. Ying-Chieh Tsai, PhD, ...
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Inscopix Expands Strategic Partnership with GRINTECH to Become Exclusive Global Supplier of GRIN lenses
Inscopix, Inc., a neuroscience company helping decode the brain for tomorrow’s treatments, announced that it is expanding its strategic supplier partnership with leading gradient index (GRIN) lens manufacturer GRINTECH GmbH to be the sole exclusive seller of GRIN lenses for neuroscience research applications. Inscopix offers innovative miniature-microscope (miniscope) based imaging ...
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EMOTIV Enlists Two Machine Learning Heavyweights as AI Takes Aim at the Human Brain
EMOTIV, the bioinformatics pioneer advancing understanding of the human brain using electroencephalography (EEG), today added two renowned scientists to its executive leadership team, naming Dr. Gary William Flake as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Dr. Scott Rickard as Chief AI Scientist. The new hires underscore EMOTIV’s strategic objectives to meet the quickening pace of advancements ...
By Emotiv Inc.
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NFL & GE Announce Six Final Winners of $10 Million Head Health Challenge
Innovations are advancing the understanding and diagnosis of mild traumatic brain injury Breakthrough ideas include: point-of-care blood test to rapidly detect the presence of mild and moderate brain trauma; biomarkers that indicate how the brain reacts following a traumatic brain injury (TBI) and a method to identify which brain areas become disconnected after injury GE (NYSE: GE) and the ...
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Exercise may help prevent brain damage caused by Alzheimer’s Disease
Regular exercise could help prevent brain damage associated with neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, according to research published this month in Elsevier’s journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. “Exercise allows the brain to rapidly produce chemicals that prevent damaging inflammation”, said Professor Jean Harry, who led the study at the National Institute of ...
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Publications by our customers - current trends
We took a look at the number of publications created using BESA software. And we need to conclude: the trend is positive! Each year, more publications get generated where BESA software is used. In particular, over the last couple of years BESA Statistics and BESA Connectivity featured much more frequently than before, reflecting the trend to analyze brain connectivity, and to present ...
By BESA GmbH
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Exercise may help prevent brain damage caused by Alzheimer’s Disease
Regular exercise could help prevent brain damage associated with neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, according to research published this month in Elsevier’s journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. “Exercise allows the brain to rapidly produce chemicals that prevent damaging inflammation”, said Professor Jean Harry, who led the study at the National Institute of ...
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AI Helps Improve Tumor Diagnosis in the Operating Room
To help neurosurgeons diagnose brain tumors more efficiently, researchers from the University of Michigan developed a deep learning-based imaging technique that can reduce the tumor diagnosis process during surgery from 30-40 minutes to less than three minutes. First unveiled in 2017, the technique called stimulated Rama histology (SRH) helps neurosurgeons more rapidly assess tumor tissue in ...
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TecTraum’s pro2cool Receives FDA Designation as a Breakthrough Device for the Treatment of Concussions
TecTraum Inc., dedicated to providing the world’s first point-of-care treatment for concussions, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has designated its flagship technology, pro2cool, as a Breakthrough Device. The pro2cool System is a novel, non-invasive hypothermic therapy device designed to reduce the severity of concussion symptoms and allow patients to ...
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Saneron and Henry Ford Health: Cell Therapy Combo Aids Stroke
Researchers at the Henry Ford Health System (Detroit, MI) and colleagues at Saneron CCEL Therapeutics, Inc. of Tampa, Florida, have found that when human umbilical cord blood cells (HUCBCs) were transplanted into test rats modeled with stroke, the addition of Simvastatin to the HUCBCs significantly increased the therapeutic benefit of the HUCBCs. The study was published in a recent issue of ...
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Inscopix Expands Applications with Blood Flow Imaging to Study Relationship between Brain Activity and Vascular Dynamics
Inscopix, Inc., a neuroscience company helping decode the brain for tomorrow’s treatments, announced that it has launched a new application for its miniscope-based platforms to investigate neuronal activity and blood flow simultaneously, a novel research method that may prove critical to studying neurovascular dynamics in the context of aging, dementia, stroke and other debilitating ...
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Longeveron Announces Initiation of Phase 2a Clinical Trial of Lomecel-B for the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease
Longeveron Inc. (NASDAQ: LGVN) ("Longeveron" or the "Company"), a clinical stage biotechnology company developing cellular therapies for chronic aging-related and certain life-threatening conditions, announced today the initiation of its Phase 2a clinical trial evaluating Lomecel-B as a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The first patient has consented to participate in the trial and ...
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Detecting the previously undetectable
Combining engineering and medicine can lead to world-leading tools like the Raman spectroscopy, which can help to distinguish cancer cells from healthy cells; for example, in brain tumour surgery.ISTOCKPHOTO / GETTY IMAGES One of the biggest challenges in brain tumour surgery is making sure that all cancer cells are removed. “If you leave a few cancer cells behind, the cancer will come ...
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