http://www.corante.com/brainwaves/ The field of neurotechnology, the focus of this blog, encompasses advances in brain science (neurons), information technology (bits) and bioengineering (genes). Up for discussion and analysis: the political, economic, ethical, and social forces that will shape the future of what will be one of the most important and fascinating stories of the coming decades. en-us zack@neuroinsights.com 2004-10-04T20:47:48-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.corante.com/brainwaves/archives/human_brain_imaging_advances.php The University Illinois at Chicago recently announced the installation of the most powerful human brain imaging system to date. While most fMRI systems in use today are powered 1.5-tesla or 3.0-telsa magnets, this new high resolution fMRI system has a... 26330@http://www.corante.com/brainwaves/ Brain Imaging 2004-10-04T20:47:48-05:00 http://www.corante.com/brainwaves/archives/neuroimaging_breakthrough_magnetic_resonance_force_microscopy.php IBM Researchers have made a radical breakthrough in imaging sensitivity. The method is called magnetic resonance force microscopy (MRFM) and improves MRI sensitivity by some 10 million times compared to the medical MRI devices used to visualize organs in the... 5107@http://www.corante.com/brainwaves/ Brain Imaging 2004-07-23T15:44:47-05:00 http://www.corante.com/brainwaves/archives/the_chronoarchitecture_of_the_human_brain.php This is for you neuroimaging fanatics. I highly recommend this recent NeuroImage paper by Andreas Bartels and Semir Zeki on the Chronoarchitecture of the Brain- natural viewing conditions reveal a time-based anatomy of the brain. This reminds me of that... 3555@http://www.corante.com/brainwaves/ Brain Imaging 2004-05-06T16:07:52-05:00 http://www.corante.com/brainwaves/archives/human_brain_project_2004.php The Human Brain Project (HBP) turned 10 years old this past week and neuroscientists gathered to celebrate recent advances and speculate about what is to come. While the field of cognitive neuroscience took a while to realize the importance of... 3439@http://www.corante.com/brainwaves/ Brain Imaging 2004-04-30T11:37:18-05:00 http://www.corante.com/brainwaves/archives/too_many_brain_imaging_systems.php This is very interesting (from Strategy and Business) There is substantial evidence that overutilization and misuse of technology leads to spending that exceeds its value for patients. In the diagnostic imaging technology category — which has grown to nearly a... 2829@http://www.corante.com/brainwaves/ Brain Imaging 2004-04-15T00:20:39-05:00 http://www.corante.com/brainwaves/archives/worlds_largest_brain_imaging_center_announced.php You know neurotechnology is emerging when people start putting hundreds of millions of dollars into building new centers of brain imaging excellence. Last week, London Imperial College and GlaxoSmithKline announced plans to build a £76 million medical imaging research center... 2555@http://www.corante.com/brainwaves/ Brain Imaging 2004-03-19T09:49:06-05:00 http://www.corante.com/brainwaves/archives/berkeley_brain_imaging_breakthrough.php Alexander Pines and his colleagues at UC Berkeley have discovered a remarkable new way to improve the versatility and sensitivity of magnetic resonance imaging and the technology upon which it is based, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). "NMR encoding is exceptional... 2499@http://www.corante.com/brainwaves/ Brain Imaging 2004-03-17T10:17:37-05:00 http://www.corante.com/brainwaves/archives/the_brainy_scientist.php This week's "The Scientist" contains several relevant articles for neurotechnology. Here are the highlights: 1. Numbers on the Brain breaks down the public and private funding initiatives supporting the $60B neuroscience/pharmacology market. 2. Cutting Neurons Down to Size details the... 572@http://www.corante.com/brainwaves/ Brain Imaging 2003-11-03T21:07:17-05:00 http://www.corante.com/brainwaves/archives/2003_nobel_prize_in_medicine.php Recognizing the importance of brain imaging technologies, the Nobel Assembly has awarded the 2003 Nobel in Medicine to American Paul Lauterbur and Britain's Peter Mansfield for their discoveries on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a painless diagnostic method used by doctors to... 426@http://www.corante.com/brainwaves/ Brain Imaging 2003-10-06T12:32:35-05:00 http://www.corante.com/brainwaves/archives/brain_waves_required_for_consciousness.php Caltech neuroscientist Christof Koch is interviewed by The Scientist this week on his decade long discussion with Francis Crick about the nature of consciousness:  Koch states that he and Crick have revised their earlier proposition that synchronous neuronal oscillations might be at the... 255@http://www.corante.com/brainwaves/ Brain Imaging 2003-07-14T21:22:22-05:00 http://www.corante.com/brainwaves/archives/dividing_dyslexics_for_their_own_good.php Using fMRI brain scanners, Yale scientists report in the NYTimes that two types of brain problems cause dyslexia. This new information should lead to more effective treatment for both types. The two types are divided into those whose dyslexia is, either: Predominately genetic:... 259@http://www.corante.com/brainwaves/ Brain Imaging 2003-07-08T19:21:27-05:00 http://www.corante.com/brainwaves/archives/charting_your_neurome.php San Diego-based Neurome is racing to chart the brain's neural circuitry in the hope of creating breakthroughs treatments for mental illnesses. "All this information about the function of the brain has to somehow be stored in a database that is standardized... 263@http://www.corante.com/brainwaves/ Brain Imaging 2003-07-02T13:33:21-05:00 http://www.corante.com/brainwaves/archives/the_human_brain_project.php This year's annual Human Brain Project meeting will be held in Bethesda, Maryland, May 12-13.  Because understanding brain function requires the integration of information from the level of the gene to the level of behavior, neuroinformatics is the primary area of focus for... 315@http://www.corante.com/brainwaves/ Brain Imaging 2003-04-22T22:35:34-05:00 http://www.corante.com/brainwaves/archives/lastest_brain_imaging_breakthroughs.php Developing safe and effective neurotechnology will depend on continued advances in biochips and brain imaging technologies.  This week's Science reports good progress on the imaging front: (article links require subscription). Single Neuron Imaging: Using a combination of genetic engineering techniques and optical imaging techniques,... 324@http://www.corante.com/brainwaves/ Brain Imaging 2003-04-11T12:12:19-05:00 http://www.corante.com/brainwaves/archives/the_brain_imaging_bottleneck.php Current brain imaging technologies constrain our ability to understand how the brain functions. To develop next-generation cogniceuticals we will need to move beyond today's three brain imaging technologies to the level of neuron and intra-neuron scanning. fMRI's (functional magnetic resonance... 291@http://www.corante.com/brainwaves/ Brain Imaging 2003-03-18T16:38:58-05:00