by Alfred Poor | September 6, 2016 | Health, Medical
As our population ages, our society faces the challenges of how to support and care for our older citizens. For many good reasons — not the least of which are saving on healthcare and other costs — seniors want to live independently in their own homes as...
by Bruce Brown | July 29, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Brain mapping just made a huge leap forward. A group of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and from six other research centers have more than doubled the known number of distinct areas on the outer layer of the human brain, also known as the cortex or...
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by Alfred Poor | July 8, 2016 | General News, Medical
We’ve covered devices that are designed to send electrical currents through your head (such as “Coffee, Tea, or Thync?”) but this is about a product that uses magnetic fields instead. Brainsway has created a padded helmet that a patient wears for...
by Bruce Brown | May 13, 2016 | General News, Medical
Not everyone who has an irregular heartbeat is at risk for sudden cardiac death. And not everyone who has a heart attack is likely to develop arrhythmia. Acting on the side of caution however, cardiologists often implant small defibrillators in heart attack patients...
by Alfred Poor | March 21, 2016 | General News, Medical
It’s a classic theme in horror pictures such as Frankenstein; the mad scientist sends an electrical current through the brain of a subject (soon-to-be-monster, in most cases) in order to bring it to life. In real life, scientists have used a similar process to...
