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Neuroelectrics announces positive results for treatment of medication-Resistant epilepsy using Starstim™

At the recent American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Neuroelectrics Corporation presented positive results from its clinical trial treating patients with drug resistant epilepsy with Starstim a device that uses mild electric currents applied on the scalp to calm abnormal activity of the brain. Of the seventeen patients that completed the study, treatment with Neuroelectrics’ Starstim device resulted in a reduction in seizure frequency of at least 40% from baseline in 75% of the patients, measured eight weeks after treatment. Also, no device-related adverse events were reported during the study. Neuroelectrics sponsored the FDA-approved investigational device study of its Starstim product (NCT02866240) at Boston Children’s Hospital, with adult...

Halloween Special: How tDCS Contributes to the Extinction of Fear

We all have our own reasons for feeling scared at times, and it’s generally not a very pleasant moment. Halloween, however, is the one time a year when many people will seek that rush of fear. For some, it may be triggered by a spider jumping at them, a ghost in the room, or a moving skeleton, but others may get scared at the mere sight of a brain. Why is it, though, that we associate the brain with Halloween? Does it produce that much fear in people? This is a Halloween special to discuss fear and its connection to the...

Ana Maiques: The Story of Chasing A Dream

The Newspaper El País and the Santillana Foundation organised the seventh edition of “The Country with Your Future” last December. An event where student attendees have the chance to listen in first person to professionals that they want to be similar to. The goal of these talks is to inspire and help students to guide their future. One of the most important professional life decisions of a person happens when they choose which studies they are going to take. This can be an overwhelming process when being 16 to 18 years old and you are not sure where life is going...

Eureka!: What Is Really Going On In The Brain?

When Archimedes, one of the greatest scientists and mathematicians of Ancient Greece, was tasked with determining whether his king’s crown was made of pure gold, he was stumped. He decided to ponder this task over a warm bath, as one does. After entering the water and noticing how it rose based on the volume of his body, he discovered how to measure the volume of an irregular object. He thought he solved the king’s task and excitedly ran home nude exclaiming “Eureka!” and the term has been popularized ever since. Though this story is likely fictional, the experience is not. In...

Does Brain Training Really Work?

In the last few years, brain training is becoming a more salient concept for the general population – mostly due to the appearance of mobile apps that, like Lumosity, offer games for the enhancement of brain function. But to what extent these cognitive training tasks enhance cognitive abilities? Tens of thousands of apps are trying to tap into the market of cognitive training but as a consumers, how do we make sure that they work?   Unless mobile apps are explicitly used for diagnosis, treatment or preventing health conditions they are not considered medical devices and thus, not overseen by regulatory bodies like FDA or the...