Test of Brain Device Is Setback for Maker
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Results from a crucial clinical trial showed that Northstar Neuroscienceâs brain-stimulating device failed to help stroke victims recover the use of their arms and hands.
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Neurochem gets another step closer to a bad idea.
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File will cause portable gaming device to malfunction, company says.
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A mannequin skull sits in an MRI machine, about to be filled with a thick, brain-like gel. MRIs are required tests for numerous disorders.
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Unpredictable reasoned victories The news that the lab investigating parapsychological phenomena around extra-sensory perception has closed makes for a bad week for pseudoscience.â¦
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WASHINGTON -- Advanced brain scanning uncovered startling signs of awareness in a woman in a vegetative state, British scientists reported Thursday _ a finding that complicates one of medicine's ethical minefields.
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Although only a test, the failure of the US National Missile defense Program yesterday was seen as a major setback for the program.
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NEW YORK  - Early tests are raising hopes  that a new device can help people who've injured their spinal  cord.
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A device that reads brain waves may give paralyzed patients a way to control prosthetic limbs without needing brain implants, medical investigators say.
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Brain scans have been developed which it is claimed can predict what a person is about to do.
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A  tiny 100 electrode chip was implanted in a 24-year-old quadriplegic's brain in June of this year. He's now able to send email and play videogames using only his thoughts. The whole package is dubbed BrainGate.
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Federal health advisers recommended Thursday that the government not approve a novel implantable device designed to detect worsening heart failure.
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Chiron, the biotech company, has become the subject of a federal grand jury investigation in the US after British regulators last week issued a surprise suspension on the
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A new brain imaging study shows that when people tell the truth and lie, they use different parts of their brains. Scientists are exploiting these brain changes to develop an imaging technique
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Applying some of the same brain-scan technology used to understand Alzheimer's and autism, scientists are trying to learn what makes a Republican's mind different from a Democrat's.
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Volunteers show marked improvement in verbal skills after a research team runs a weak current through their foreheads. The researchers say it could lead to innovative therapies for patients with brain injuries. By Amit Asaravala.
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The board bowed to a federal monitorÂs pressure after a mishandled attempt to solve a patent dispute.