ASU secures $3.9 million to study spinal cord injuries and neurological disorders
... of Engineering. Jung is also affiliate faculty in electrical engineering at ASU and Abbas is director of Clinic...essors in ASU's Fulton School, Stephen Phillips in electrical engineering and James Sweeney, Harrington Department Bioengineering. Magnetic Resonance Imaging/Spe...Optical imaging added to ultrasound improves breast cancer diagnosis
...d author, Quing Zhu, Ph.D., associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. By combining ultrasound with optical tomography, which employs diffused light in the near infrared (NIR) spectrum, the researchers were able to calculate the concentration of oxyge...MoMA showcases Penn State researcher's device
...urity. Developed by Craig A. Grimes, professor of electrical engineering and materials science and engineering at Penn State, the glucose biosensor, when placed under the skin, could provide glucose levels for diabetics without a finger prick. Diabetics must monitor the levels of glucose in their blood and adj...Nerve changes from diabetes begin earlier than previously known
...tion tests, which measure how quickly nerves carry electrical signals. The nerve conduction tests, over time, provided the most consistent and reliable measures of early nerve damage due to diabetes. "Even when patients had nerve conduction values well within the normal range, our serial assessments showed ste...Launch milestone achieved: Last-ever look at CryoSat
...ze upper stage took place a few days ago. Once the electrical interfaces had been checked and the outer fabric-l...xplosive-equipment is being installed. A number of electrical tests will be performed on the Breeze stage before the thermal cover and ventilation system are adde...National funding goes to Johns Hopkins to advance research on stem cell therapies for heart attack
...into more specialized heart cells that can conduct electrical currents and contract like heart muscle should. Directing the overall SCCT effort at Hopkins will be cardiologist Joshua Hare, M.D. Hare, a professor of medicine, leads the project to evaluate adult mesenchymal stem cells as a potential therapy to he...Novartis MS drug shows promising results
... remission in function. Over time, transmission of electrical nerve impulses is disrupted, nerve cells are destroyed, and patients experience symptoms ranging from fatigue, tingling, numbness and blurred vision to poor muscle control with partial or complete paralysis, speech or mental impairment. About 50% of ...A new analysis of a standard brain test may help predict dementia
...er analysis of the EEG, which measures the brain's electrical activity, accurately predicted healthy people in their 60s and 70s who would develop dementia over the next 7 to 10 years. It also identified individuals who would remain virtually unchanged over the same time span. The EEGs were almost 95 percent ac...New insights into cost-effectiveness of implanted heart device
...fibrillators that keep the heart beating in proper electrical rhythm to prevent cardiac arrest appears to be cost-effective for those patients who receive a significant mortality reduction, according to researchers from Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI), Stanford University and the VA Palo Alto Health Car...UC Santa Barbara named to National Cancer Institute's multi-center nanotechnology collaboration
... and treat cancer," said Evelyn Hu, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and materials, and Co-Director of the California NanoSystems Institute. The potential of nanotech-based therapeutic delivery systems to enhance the efficacy of cancer treatments is enormous, but such innovation requires inno...Fatty foods fight inflammation
...rough the vagus nerve, the nerve that provides the electrical regulation for many internal organs, including the gut and the heart. In response to CCK, vagus nerve endings in the gut released a neurotransmitter called acetylcholine. Acetylcholine then bound to proteins on immune cells and turned the cells off...Early life stress can lead to memory loss and cognitive decline in middle age
...llular abnormalities, the researchers recorded the electrical activity of brain cells, which appeared normal in young adult rats exposed to early life stress, but became very disturbed as they reached middle age. These changes in brain-cell activity were consistent with the rats' behavioral changes. More than 5...Biosense Webster announces FDA clearance
...allows you to create a 3D map of the heart showing electrical activity. By developing the 3D map using the Biose...ble to pinpoint the exact timing or voltage of the electrical signal which allows for a more timely diagnosis of the patient's irregular heart beat (arrhythmia). ...What makes the brain tick, tick, tick. . .
...modified mice, pharmacological tools, recording of electrical brain signals in ensembles of brain cells and functional magnetic resonance imaging of the brain. For example, they are studying how the clock's ticking changes in Parkinson's patients as they change levels of their medication, which effects the amo...Characteristic cardiac scar pattern predicts risk of fatal arrhythmias
...illator implanted, a small device that delivers an electrical shock to restore their cardiac rhythm in case the ...rchitecture - rather than its pumping function and electrical signaling - and so far the only study to analyze this architecture for clues about arrhythmias in pa...Johns Hopkins celebrates its first century of neuroscience
...r had developed and used techniques to measure the electrical output of the brain. While at Hopkins, Gerard refi...ome on the School of Medicine campus are measuring electrical signals from individual neurons in a laboratory dish to study how they react to different stimulatio...RNA splicing occurs in nerve-cell dendrites
...each other to form a network. Dendrites detect the electrical and chemical signals transmitted to the neuron by the axons of other neurons. The synapse is the neuronal structure where this chemical connection is formed, and investigators surmise that the synapse is where learning and memory occur. Researchers ...Study finds torture and human rights abuses among Tibetan refugees
...rture techniques across both groups were beatings, electrical torture, being forced to provide blood, and being imprisoned. In addition to torture, both groups reported traumatic events that may affect mental health. These included sleep deprivation, witnessing murder, kidnapping of family and friends, and th...Neurologists refine multiple sclerosis diagnostic criteria
...ce that normally insulates nerve fibers and speeds electrical conduction through the fibers. Depending on which nerve fibers are hindered, patients can experience problems ranging from weakness and clumsiness to numbness, visual disturbances, and even emotional and intellectual alterations. In some patients, M...Synaptic connections need nurturing to retain their structure and keep outsiders at bay
...he nerve cell. When the investigators studied the electrical activity at the synapse between granule and Purkinje cells in models that lacked the gene for cbln1 (cbln1-/-), they found that the signals in Purkinje cells stimulated by granule cells were consistently smaller than normal. In addition, the number o...