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Positive Results Reported for Deep TMS H System For Depression

Israel’s Globes newspaper is reporting that Brainsway Ltd., a company trying to commercialize transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) device, is reporting positive outcomes in the first efficacy test on a group of 64 patients with depression. The company believes that these results will allow Brainsway to file for an application for CE Mark from the European Union, and then proceed with similar […]

MEMENTO Memory LifeBook Concept

Peter Sin Guili, a product design student at LaSalle-SIA College of the Arts in Singapore, tells Medgadget that he has developed an idea for a personal assistance device to help people suffering from dementia, which can help with communication, memorizing events in one’s life, and keeping tabs on important to-do’s and objects that need to be kept […]

SpringTMS Transcranial Magnetic Stimulator for Treatment of Migraines FDA Cleared (VIDEO)

eNeura, a company out of Baltimore, Maryland, received FDA 510(k) clearance for its SpringTMS device to treat migraine headaches. The device delivers transcranial magnetic stimulation, hence the TMS in the product name, in order to disrupt the electrical signals that are thought to be responsible for migraines. The SpringTMS is intended for patients to use […]

Virtual Reality Shown to Help Treat Clinical Depression

At University College London and ICREA-University of Barcelona researchers have shown that virtual reality can be used a therapy tool for helping people with clinical depression improve how they assess and critique themselves. The technology involves wearing an immersive headset and seeing the world through the eyes of another person, a digital avatar, with a […]

Image Recognition Technology to Expand Abilities of Microsoft’s Digital Camera Device

Microsoft has partnered with Oxford Metrics Group (Oxford, UK), a company specializing in computer vision applications, to further develop Microsoft’s ViconRevue (formerly SenseCam) digital camera-like gadget. The device continuously snaps a picture every 30 seconds, hence it might be worn around the neck by patients with memory problems (i.e. Alzheimer’s, s/p hypoxic/ischemic encephalopathy). The device is thought to […]

VNS Therapy for depression?

VNS therapy (Vagus Nerve Stimulation Therapy System) has for a while been an FDA-approved adjunctive treatment for medically refractory partial onset seizures. Now, it seems, that FDA is considering an approval of VNS therapy for treatment-resistant depression. HOUSTON, Feb. 2 — Cyberonics, Inc. today announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has deemed the […]

Handheld Eye Scanner to Detect Autism Spectrum Disorder

Researchers at Flinders University in Australia have developed a handheld eye scanner that could help to identify children with autism spectrum disorder. The device allows clinicians to obtain light-adapted electroretinograms, which involves detecting electrical signals in the retina. The device could help in diagnosing children with autism much earlier, meaning that they can get appropriate […]

Pocket Sky Wearable For Seasonal Affective Disorder, Jetlag, and Shift Work Disorder

Active Wearables, a medtech startup based in Austria, has released Pocket Sky, a wearable designed to combat conditions resulting from time shifts and poor access to sunlight. The device can be worn like a pair of glasses and emits blue light to emulate sunlight, supposedly suppressing the production of melatonin. The company claims that the […]

Spray-On Helps Ease Children’s Trauma

According to research conducted at the University of Queensland, Spray-on skin helps child burn victims cope with scarring trauma… Here’ s more from the Australian university: A study has shown most children reported an improvement in the appearance of their scars and were happier when they used the product, called Microskin. The new liquid spray-on […]

Brain-Computer Interface with Neurofeedback Improves Human Performance

When performing challenging and dangerous tasks, our state of mind can have great effect on whether we succeed or fail. During emergencies some people panic while others remain calm. Some people get so influenced by emotion that an easy task, such as simply running out of a building, can turn into a disaster all of […]

Experiencing Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

British neuroscientists are working on miniaturizing devices that would be able to deliver high tesla fields to produce magnetic stimulation within the brain, a potential therapy for migraines, and other neurological or psychiatric disorders. These new brain stimulators, called DC machines, introduce very weak electrical currents. But like TMS, DC also has the same effect […]

Software Predicts Dementia from Amyloid PET Scans

Scientists at McGill University in Canada created a piece of software that can analyze images taken during an amyloid PET scan and provide an estimate of the chances of patients developing dementia. Alzheimer’s is associated with the buildup of amyloid plaques within the brain, but interpreting their location and concentrations into clinically useful information is […]

New VR Display Gentler on Brain; Reduces Nausea and Fatigue

Virtual reality systems recreate the impression of natural 3D vision, but the headsets that do this really only deliver light beams from two separate displays while in the real world light comes in from many different angles. Because the brain has to perform an unnatural reconstruction of the image, many people end up feeling nausea […]

Smartphone App Detects Opioid Overdose

Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a smartphone app that can detect if someone is experiencing an opioid overdose. The app uses sonar to monitor the breathing rate of a user, which it can do from up to three feet away, to assess if someone is experiencing an overdose. So far, the technology […]

Microsoft and VA Rolling Out Xboxes with Adaptive Controllers at Rehab Centers

If you’ve been stuck recovering in a hospital for a long period of time, you may know how delightful video games are for killing time. Injured veterans, usually people that don’t enjoy being stuck in one place and like exciting challenges, often don’t get to benefit from video games because of the disabilities that got […]

Magstim’s Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Therapy System FDA Cleared to Fight Major Depression (VIDEO)

The FDA awarded Magstim, a Carmarthenshire, Wales firm, clearance to bring to market the company’s Magstim Rapid2 rTMS (repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation) Therapy System. The system is indicated to treat drug resistant major depressive disorder in an outpatient setting. The Magstim Rapid2 has been available to researchers in fields such as cognitive neuroscience, neurophysiology, and rehabilitation. Now the magnetic […]

Women Paint Over Own Digital Avatars to Improve Mental Health

How we view our bodies is often influenced by popular culture and each one of our’s social environment. Young women, in particular, tend to suffer from poor “body image,” which can result in depression, eating disorders, and all kinds of other mental issues. Researchers at the University of Missouri wanted to see whether letting women […]

Primetime Basic Instincts: Milgram Experiment on TV

Tonight at 10pm ET ABC News is planning to air its “Primetime” special that will show the recreation of the famous Milgram Experiment: In 1961, social psychologist Stanley Milgram asked those same questions. That was the year Nazi Adolf Eichmann, on trial for his war crimes, denied responsibility for his actions by saying he was simply doing […]

TMS Studied for Difficult-to-Treat Cases of Depression

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), covered by us earlier, is a procedure in which electrical activity of the brain is changed by an alternating magnetic field, through magnetic induction. The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas reports its involvement in the trial of TMS for treatment-resistant cases of depression: Barbara Baas ran away from home […]

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Shows Initial Promise in Alzheimer’s Trial

If you remember from your high school or college physics classes, there is a strong relationship between electricity and magnetism. Basic principles of electromagnetism have revolutionized the way we live; for example, knowledge that a wire carrying a current generates a magnetic field led to the development of motors and the discovery that moving a […]

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Improves Working Memory

Researchers from Duke University School of Medicine have found that magnetic brain stimulation can help improve working memory. They studied repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), showing that it improved memory task performance in all ages of adults. Given that individuals with Alzheimer’s will more than double by 2050, rTMS may be a potential form of […]

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