brain Coverage - MedCity News https://medcitynews.com/tag/brain/ Healthcare technology news, life science current events Fri, 07 Jun 2024 21:00:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 228111745 Zeto Receives FDA Clearance for Its User-Friendly EEG Brain Monitoring System https://medcitynews.com/2024/06/eeg-fda-brain-monitoring/ https://medcitynews.com/2024/06/eeg-fda-brain-monitoring/#respond Fri, 07 Jun 2024 21:00:54 +0000 https://medcitynews.com/?p=127087

Medical device company Zeto received clearance for its EEG brain monitoring system. The system includes a user-friendly, comfortable EEG headset designed to be easily operated by any medical professional with minimal training.

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]]> https://medcitynews.com/2024/06/eeg-fda-brain-monitoring/feed/ 0 127087 Novocure’s Electrical Cancer Therapy Shows It Can Treat Tumors in the Brain https://medcitynews.com/2024/03/electricity-cancer-therapy-metastases-tumor-novocure/ Wed, 27 Mar 2024 21:51:09 +0000 https://medcitynews.com/?p=668682

Novocure said its “Tumor Treating Fields” met the main goal of a pivotal study enrolling non-small cell lung cancer patients with brain metastases. However, results for the electricty-based treatment fell short of statistical significance on several secondary endpoints.

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]]> 87645 Brain Patterns, Physiological Metrics Show VR’s Ability To Reduce Chronic Pain In New Research https://medcitynews.com/2024/02/virtual-reality-healthcare-chronic-pain/ Fri, 09 Feb 2024 16:55:53 +0000 https://medcitynews.com/?p=663849

AppliedVR released study results demonstrating VR’s ability to help patients suffering from chronic low back pain. The technology was able to increase participants’ brain coherence and help them achieve a slower breathing rate — two metrics associated with reduced pain.

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]]> 86924 Stem cells to transplant in the brain: Stealth UCSF spinout Neurona Therapeutics raises $7.6M https://medcitynews.com/2014/12/stem-cells-transplant-brain-stealth-ucsf-spinout-neurona-therapeutics-raises-7-6m/ Wed, 24 Dec 2014 14:00:29 +0000 https://medcitynews.com/?p=322641 A UCSF spinout is growing neuronal stem cells to transplant into the brain, for potential use in treating epilepsy, spinal cord injury, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease – and investors are listening. Because one thing that differentiates Neurona Therapeutics is that its stem cells turn exclusively into interneuron cells – which are less likely to be tumorigenic than other IPS cells. […]

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]]> 67427 UCLA memory program offers ‘gym for your brain’ https://medcitynews.com/2014/03/ucla-memory-program-offers-gym-brain/ Wed, 12 Mar 2014 09:02:05 +0000 https://medcitynews.com/?guid=89a4bd59915b99e3f5dd260f59c573ef Just as they had so many times during the past 60 years, Marianna and Albert Frankel stepped onto the dance floor. He took her hand in his, and smiling, waltzed her around the room. “I remembered how it used to be and we could really do the waltz and he would whirl me around until I […]

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