Latest Electrophysiology Stories
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Surgeons have been using general anesthesia since the 19th century, but until now physicians and neurologists didn’t know exactly how brain activity correlates to the loss of consciousness. A new study from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) that was recently published in the journal PNAS demonstrated how distinctive brain activity patterns are associated with the loss of...
Brain's code for visual working memory deciphered in monkeys -- NIH-funded study The brain holds in mind what has just been seen by synchronizing brain waves in a working memory circuit, an animal study supported by the National Institutes of Health suggests. The more in-sync such electrical signals of neurons were in two key hubs of the circuit, the more those cells held the short-term memory of a just-seen object. Charles Gray, Ph.D., of Montana State University, Bozeman, a grantee of...
CLEVELAND, Nov. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- CardioInsight Technologies Inc., the leading developer of non-invasive electrocardiographic mapping technology, announced today the appointment of Patrick J. Wethington as President & CEO. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121101/DC03452LOGO) Mr. Wethington brings more than 20 years of cross functional medical device experience in the cardiovascular industry, including sales and marketing leadership roles at Guidant,...
ALBANY, New York, October 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research (http://www.transparencymarketresearch.com) "ECG Monitoring Systems Market - Global Industry Analysis by Type, Size, Share and Forecast, 2011 - 2016 [http://www.transparencymarketresearch.com/ecg-monitoring-systems-market.html ]," the global ECG monitoring systems market is estimated to reach a market size worth USD 822.1 million in 2016, growing at a...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Can't remember what you dreamt about last night? Never fear, because a team of Japanese researchers has reportedly discovered a way to determine what thoughts are going through a person's mind about while they sleep. Yukiyasu Kamitani, a member of the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Kyoto, and colleagues recruited three male volunteers and monitored them while they slept, using electroencephalography to record their...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online A person’s aptitude for video games can be predicted by their brain waves, according to a new study published in the journal Psychophysiology. The researchers used electroencephalography (EEG) to observe the electrical activity in the brains of 39 study participants before they trained on the video game 'Space Fortress,' a game developed for cognitive research. None of the subjects were daily video game players. The...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- DART Therapeutics, LLC, an innovative, new-model biotechnology firm focused on developing therapies for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), announced today the successful completion of a study to evaluate a promising new biomarker for DMD. The biomarker, electrical impedance myography (EIM), is a non-invasive and simple-to-use technique that allows the operator to measure the health of a muscle and track its changes over time. The...
CLEVELAND, Sept. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ChanTest, the leading CRO expert in ion channels and nonclinical cardiac safety testing, announces funding of a Phase II SBIR grant. ChanTest will use the grant from the National Heart Lung & Blood Institute to optimize drug safety and discovery assays using stem cell-derived human cardiomyocytes. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120817/CL58977LOGO ) "This grant will allow us to optimize our industry-leading cardiomyocyte...
The cellular cause of birth defects like cleft palates, missing teeth and problems with fingers and toes has been a tricky puzzle for scientists. Now Professor Emily Bates and her biochemistry students at Brigham Young University have placed an important piece of the developmental puzzle. They studied an ion channel that regulates the electrical charge of a cell. In a new study published by the journal Development, they show that blocking this channel disrupts the work of a protein that is...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Rhythmic oscillations in the brain provide heightened visual awareness that, when controlled, could help improve visual processing in critical environments such as air traffic control towers and nuclear power plants, according to a new study by the Beckman Institute. Using periodic visual stimuli and electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings, the researchers found they could precisely time the brain’s natural oscillations to future...
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Electrocardiography, sometimes called ECG or EKG, is a measurement of the electrical activity of the heart as the linear process unfolds. With the use of electrodes that are attached to the skin, this non-invasive test can provide vast information as to the patient’s status. By leaving the electrodes attached, the patient’s status can be monitored over intervals of time and recorded on the device. This data can be sent electronically for consults about potential treatments without delay....
Electrooculography, sometimes shortened to EOG, is the tracing of electricity used for operation of the retina in different phases, specifically the resting potential. The results are recorded on an electrooculogram. These are interpreted for opthalmological diagnosis and in recording eye movements. Eye movement measurements: Usually, pairs of electrodes are placed either above and below the eye or to the left and right of the eye. If the eye is moved from the center position towards one...
