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Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Shown to Improve Learning Skills

Researchers at HRL Laboratories, a Malibu, CA firm, have shown that their novel transcranial direct current stimulation system successfully helped novice pilots improve their flying skills. The team tested their technology by employing an advanced flight simulator while volunteer subjects wore a cap that was monitoring brain waves and delivering low-current electrical signals. But first, expert […]

New NeuroStar Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Therapy System for Depression Cleared by FDA

Neuronetics, a firm based in Malvern, Pennsylvania, won FDA approval for its latest NeuroStar transcranial magnetic stimulation therapy system. Approved in the U.S. for treating depression in patients who have tried at least one antidepressant drug, the new system has the major benefit of offering the same therapy during shorter sessions. Although session duration is decided […]

Nicotrax Smoking Monitoring and Support System Helps Everyone Quit Their Own Way

Quitting smoking can be difficult for a lot of people, often turning normal folks into irritated grouches that can’t seem to control their emotions. A good deal trouble arises from the fact that smokers often don’t realize what triggers their cravings and what they can do to avoid such situations. A new hardware and software […]

Creating Your Own “Shadow Person”

A research team at the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne, led by Olaf Blanke, may have found a cause for schizophrenic behavior. Simple stimulation of the brain can cause the mind to play complex and creepy tricks on itself, neurologists have discovered. They found that, by inserting electrodes into a specific part of the brain, […]

Plushies: for Fear of Nuclear Annihilation

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a powerful, proven tool in helping people get over some phobias and neuroses. But we can’t tell if the creators of the Huggable Atomic Mushroom are subscribers to CBT, or poking fun at it: The Huggable Atomic Mushrooms are soft toys shaped like nuclear explosions , enabling those of us with […]

Psychiatric VRx (virtual reality therapy)

Georgia State University is beginning a clinical trial to determine the effectiveness of virtual reality therapy for the treatment of public speaking phobia: For many people, the mere thought of public speaking makes their palms sweat, heart race and stomach reel. But help may be on the way in the form of virtual reality exposure […]

Deep TMS Technology by Brainsway

Do you remember our report about the Neurostar System by Neuronetics, a transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) device being considered by the FDA for the treatment of major depression? If you don’t, maybe you need some TMS to restore your memory function. After all, the technology is promoted to be the cure of the future for depression, schizophrenia, migranes, and restoration of peripheral […]

The Alzheimer’s Bus Stop… to Nowhere

Many Alzheimer’s patients experience unexpected urges to reconnect with their past. Trying to convince someone with Alzheimer’s that their uncle Joseph is no longer living, or that he’s too far away, is no use. So, how to manage these situations? One solution that’s just come to our attention: placing fake bus stops outside of clinical […]

PlayStation May Help Burn Victims Adjust to New Reality

Following severe injury or reconstructive surgery that considerably alters patient’s visual appearance, many people suffer from psychological issues trying to adjust to the new reality. Becoming comfortable with oneself and having a good impression of how one looks to others can greatly improve self esteem and help move on with life. To aid and accelerate […]

My Word is (Spray) Bond

Oxytocin, a hormone involved in labor and lactation, has now been found to engender trust. The Swiss study, appearing in this week’s Nature, was summarized in the New York Times: In the study, the participants played an investment game with anonymous partners. Those who were given oxytocin invested more money with the partners than did those who did not […]

First Drug-Free Option for ADHD Cleared in America

For the first time, children in the United States will have a non-drug option for treating attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The FDA just cleared the Monarch external Trigeminal Nerve Stimulation (eTNS) System from NeuroSigma, a Los Angeles, California company, to treat ADHD in kids between 7 and 12 years old. The system has already been […]

Brainsway to Test TMS for Smoking Cessation

Brainsway Ltd. out of Jerusalem, Israel, a company we’ve been covering over the last few years, has received local approval to conduct clinical trials of its deep transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) as an aid in quitting smoking. The drastic approach is to be tested on about 100 lung cancer patients that have not been able to […]

emWave Personal Stress Reliever

We here at Medgadget are no strangers to stress, after all its not easy running the #1 site for emerging medical technologies. So you can imagine our relief when we came across the emWave personal stress reliever. Sure, it may just look like a credit card with fancy LEDs, but its that and so much […]

ABILIFY MYCITE, The First FDA Approved Digital Medicine That Tracks Its Own Ingestion

Proteus Digital Health, a Redwood City firm, and Otsuka Pharmaceutical of Tokyo, Japan won FDA approval for the world’s first digital pill. The ABILIFY MYCITE (aripiprazole) is a tablet with a tiny sensor embedded in its interior. After the tablet is swallowed and dissolved, the sensor meets the stomach juices, which activate it and allow it […]

eXimia NBS System

European Union’s Information Society Technologies (IST) has awarded Nexstim Ltd., a company out of Finland, with the European IST Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in Europe. According to the press release, the award winning technology, called Navigated Brain Stimulation (NBS), is “capable of measuring the functionality and health status of the central nervous system.” A non-invasive brain […]

Brain Implant Relieves Depression

Reuters, among others, is reporting on a study from today’s Neuron which demonstrates a deep brain electrical stimulator which improved depression in 4 of 6 patients: Four of six severely depressed patients who underwent deep brain stimulation, which involves surgically implanting electrodes in a targeted area of the brain thought to be involved in depression, experienced a “striking […]

Augmented Reality System Lets Severely Disabled Operate Own Robots

Robots that help severely disabled people are generally assumed to have to be super smart, capable of replacing human caretakers. Engineers at Georgia Tech decided to take a very different approach, instead empowering disabled people to control the robots that help them. The technology allows disabled people to see what the robot is seeing, since a […]

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