FDA Clears Advanced Brain Visualization Software for Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery
May 2nd 2019The proprietary software utilizes sophisticated algorithms and 7T MRI data to predict the location of the subthalamic nuclei, a key target for deep brain stimulation for the treatment of Parkinson disease.
Sleep Apneas Show Association With Tau Accumulation in Cognitively Unimpaired
May 1st 2019Researchers found that cognitively unimpaired patients with apneas had an average of 4.5% higher levels of tau in the entorhinal cortex than those who did not have apneas, after controlling for several other factors.
Improving Sleep Diagnostics By Revolutionizing Sleep Monitoring
April 29th 2019Onera’s co-founder and chief medical officer, and the associate professor at John’s Hopkins University spoke about the plans for recently raised Series A funding and how a newly developed patch system could alter the diagnostics of sleep medicine.
Biofluid Biomarkers Hold Promise for the Future of Huntington Disease
April 29th 2019Currently, there are no disease-modifying medications for Huntington disease and few interventions available to effectively alleviate symptoms, while the lack of indicators of pathobiological processes at the molecular level has limited the ability to prove efficacy and safety in clinical trials.
Approaching Lacunar Stroke and Dementia With a Dual Treatment Regimen
April 28th 2019The chair of Applied Neuroimaging and head of Neuroimaging Sciences and Edinburgh Imaging at the University of Edinburgh spoke about what the physician community needs to know about utilizing isosorbide mononitrate and cilostazol for lacunar stroke.
Creativity, Persistence Are Key to Advancing the Approach to MS Symptom Management
April 27th 2019Although highly efficacious DMTs have improved outcomes for a growing number of patients, the majority of people with MS are still subjected to the day-to-day consequences of the disease’s symptoms, which often have a more debilitating effect on the patient than the disease itself.