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Article: Portable Device Detects Abnormal Brain Activity.(NeuroGraph may be able to diagnose Alzheimer's disease)
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- Pain & Central Nervous System Week
- Article date:
- October 8, 2001
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2001 OCT 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) --
What do pilots, divers and pharmaceutical trial participants have in common with people being screened for Alzheimer disease or other ailments affecting the brain such as strokes? The answer is NeuroGraph, a portable device that provides an almost instantaneous reading of brain activity and can swiftly detect differences from the norm.
Developed with funding from the Office of Naval Research for reading submarine sonar signals, the device offers enormous commercial potential as a screening device for Alzheimer disease. NeuroGraph, which received Food and Drug Administration clearance in June 2001, reads brain ...