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IBM Watson Health to Integrate MedyMatch Technology into Cognitive Imaging Offerings to Help Doctors Identify Head Trauma and Stroke

By Guest PostMarch 16, 2017Health, Technologyanne le grand, cognitive imaging, gene saragnese, head trauma, ibm watson, medical solutions, medymatch, michael lev, stroke, Technology

MedyMatch Application to Help Doctors Identify Head Trauma and Stroke

Tel Aviv, Israel – 16 Mar 2017: MedyMatch Technology today announced a collaboration with IBM (NYSE: IBM) Watson Health to bring MedyMatch’s A.I.-based clinical decision support application to imaging experts working in hospital emergency rooms and other acute care settings to help doctors identify instances of intracranial bleeding as a result of head trauma and stroke. Initially, IBM Watson Health’s Imaging group will distribute the MedyMatch brain bleed detection application globally through its vendor neutral sales channels. Moving forward, IBM Watson Health and MedyMatch will develop interoperability between MedyMatch’s application and IBM Watson Health Imaging’s offerings. (more…)

Racing the Clock to Help Young Patients with Old Hearts

By Guest PostJuly 11, 2014Healthapc2, army private cloud, biomolekuele als katalysator, cell types, cloud deal, genetically engineered, heart failure, hiatus phenomenon, kohlenstoff molekuele, muscle cells, normaldruck, nullpunkt, paul scheier, protein, schneebaelle, stem cells, stroke, university of maryland, xiao hai yan

UMD study of premature aging may help explain effects of normal aging

COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Children with progeria, a rare disorder that causes premature aging, die in their teens of ailments that are common in octogenarians: heart failure and stroke. Kan Cao, a University of Maryland assistant professor of cell biology and molecular genetics, urgently wants to help find a cure. Cao and her colleagues have taken a big step in that direction, showing that a toxic protein destroys muscle cells inside the patients’ arteries. The researchers suspect the damaged arteries are more prone to failure. (more…)

New Ultrasound Device May Aid in Detecting Risk for Heart Attack, Stroke

By Guest PostMay 6, 2014Scienceabfallwirtschaft, heart attack, microbubbles, molecular imaging, north Carolina, northern lights, risk, state university, stroke, tomoki kimura, wassertemperatur, william dunn, xray aurora

Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed an ultrasound device that could help identify arterial plaque that is at high risk of breaking off and causing heart attack or stroke.

At issue is the plaque that builds up in arteries as we age. Some types of plaque are deemed “vulnerable,” meaning that they are more likely to detach from the artery wall and cause heart attack or stroke. (more…)

For older hypertension patients, an unwelcome tradeoff

By Guest PostFebruary 25, 2014Scienceblood pressure, chronic conditions, fall injury, functional loss, heart attack, jama internal medicine, ling han, mary tinetti, medications, mortality, older hypertension patients, risk, stroke

Medications used by many older people to control their blood pressure also increase the risk of serious fall injuries by 30% to 40% — injuries that have a similar effect on mortality and functional loss as the strokes and heart attacks the blood pressure drugs are meant to prevent — according to a new study by Yale School of Medicine researchers in the Feb. 24 issue of JAMA Internal Medicine.

Clinicians have long assumed that blood pressure medications are safe and effective in all older adults. That is probably true in healthy older adults, but the same might not be true in a more typical population of older adults, who commonly have several other chronic conditions, note the researchers. (more…)

Natural Compound Mitigates Effects of Methamphetamine Abuse, University of Missouri Researchers Find

By Guest PostNovember 26, 2013Healthalzheimer's disease, behavioral impairments, bond life, brain, colored vegetables, dennis miller, disease research, dopamine level, drug addiction, effects, grace y sun, hyperactivity, methamphetamine abuse, mizzou advantage, model, natural compound, neurodegenerative disorders, neurological, neurotransmitter dopamine, parkinsons disease, resveratrol containing products, sciences center, stroke, sustainable energy, university of missouri

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Studies have shown that resveratrol, a natural compound found in colored vegetables, fruits and especially grapes, may minimize the impact of Parkinson’s disease, stroke and Alzheimer’s disease in those who maintain healthy diets or who regularly take resveratrol supplements. Now, researchers at the University of Missouri have found that resveratrol may also block the effects of the highly addictive drug, methamphetamine.

Dennis Miller, associate professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences in the College of Arts & Science and an investigator with the Bond Life Sciences Center, and researchers in the Center for Translational Neuroscience at MU, study therapies for drug addiction and neurodegenerative disorders. Their research targets treatments for methamphetamine abuse and has focused on the role of the neurotransmitter dopamine in drug addiction. Dopamine levels in the brain surge after methamphetamine use; this increase is associated with the motivation to continue using the drug, despite its adverse consequences. However, with repeated methamphetamine use, dopamine neurons may degenerate causing neurological and behavioral impairments, similar to those observed in people with Parkinson’s disease. (more…)

Mind over mechanics

By Guest PostJuly 17, 2013Health, Science3 d, alzheimer's disease, ar, artificial limbs, augmented reality, bci, bin he, brain circuits, brain computer interfaces, brain waves, bypass, control, drone, eeg, electronic command, fiction into reality, flying robot, functional mri, mind over mechanics, motor cortex, neurodegenerative diseases, new technology, science fiction, signals, stroke, university of minnesota

How thoughts can control a flying robot

It’s a staple of science fiction: people who can control objects with their minds.

At the University of Minnesota, a new technology is turning that fiction into reality.

In the lab of biomedical engineering professor Bin He, several young people have learned to use their thoughts to steer a flying robot around a gym, making it turn, rise, dip, and even sail through a ring. (more…)

Songbirds’ Brains Coordinate Singing with Intricate Timing, Study Shows

By Guest PostMarch 2, 2013Nature, Scienceactivity, ana amador, anatomy, aphasia, avian vocal organ, basic motor functions, brain, buenos aires, control vocalizations, coordinate singing, coordinating human speech, daniel margoliash, disorder, dynamics of movement, feedback, gabriel mindlin, highly skilled behavior, howard nusbaum, human brain, human speech production, model, neuroscientist, premotor cortical neurons, single neurons, song, song system, songbird, songs of birds, speech, speech problems, stroke, stuttering, syrinx, timing, university, university of chicago, vocal signals, yonatan sanz perl, zebra finches

Research may help explain how human brain governs speech

As a bird sings, some neurons in its brain prepare to make the next sounds while others are synchronized with the current notes—a coordination of physical actions and brain activity that is needed to produce complex movements, new research at the University of Chicago shows.

In an article in the current issue of Nature, neuroscientist Daniel Margoliash and colleagues show, for the first time, how the brain is organized to govern skilled performance—a finding that may lead to new ways of understanding human speech production. (more…)

UCLA Study Shows Promise, Offers Hope for Brain Hemorrhage Patients

By Guest PostFebruary 22, 2013Scienceamericans suffer strokes, bleeding, brain hemorrhage patients, clinical trial, ct scans, disability in america, endoscope, endoscopic surgical procedure, gps like precision, keyhole incision, neil martin, paul vespa, removing blood, severe disability, standard medical treatment, stroke, toxic, ucla neurosurgeons

Minimally invasive surgery may benefit patients previously deemed hopeless

A new endoscopic surgical procedure has been shown to be safer and to result in better outcomes than the current standard medical treatment for patients who suffer strokes as a result of brain hemorrhages, UCLA neurosurgeons have announced.

The findings from their potentially groundbreaking, randomized, controlled phase 2 clinical trial, which was conducted at multiple medical centers, were presented last week at the International Stroke Conference in Honolulu. (more…)

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