New monitoring tool could revolutionize brain treatment
With Neurosteer's simple three-electrode strip, neurologists and doctors can see the effects of therapy in a real time map of brain activity.
“An EEG requires a half hour of placing electrodes, and fMRI involves getting into a big machine in a special controlled setting for 15 to 20 minutes with limited ability to stimulate the brain during recording,” says Weinberg.
“With Neurosteer, brain monitoring can be done on a 24/7 basis. It’s the EEG equivalent of a heartrate and glucose monitor that can be on continuously in a nonintrusive way while the patient carries out regular activities.”
Compared to fMRI – the current gold standard for brain activity screening and assessment – Neurosteer is inexpensive, portable and unobtrusive, requiring only an adhesive three-electrode strip placed on the forehead connected to a pocket-sized device that wirelessly transmits sensor data to a cloud-based HIPAA-compliant server.
The device can be used clinically for initial assessment of neurological disorders and then as part of a patient’s normal daily routine to see the effects of treatment. -- More....
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