Excerpt from an article in the Health News section of the Irish Independent:
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The non-invasive MagnetoEncephaloGram (MEG) technique was used by British and Spanish researchers to compare individuals with schizophrenia and healthy individuals. They found two specific signals that were significantly different in the psychotic patients. In addition, four brain wave signals from the schizophrenia patients were found to change with age in a way not seen in healthy volunteers ... Using the MEG signals, the researchers were able to classify patients with 71% accuracy.
< Link to Irish Independent Article Here (HTML) >
The findings are published in the journal "Physiological Measurement" - A journal for sensors, instrumentation and systems in physiology and medicine that covers the quantitative assessment and visualization of physiological function in clinical research and practice, with an emphasis on the development of new methods of measurement
and their validation. Practical and theoretical papers are published in topics including:
- measurement in applied physiology
- biomedical sensors
- human biology and clinical medicine
- instrumentation and methods of data analysis
- clinical engineering
- patient monitoring
- life support systems and prosthetic devices
- modeling and simulation as they apply to measurements
- measurement of flow and pressure (for example blood flow, tissue perfusion and hemodynamics)
- body composition (for example XRF, bone mineral density, ultrasound bone measurements)
- bioMEMs and applications of microfabrication technology to biomedical measurements.
This is a peer-review medical journal.
< Link to Physiological Measurement Article Here (PDF) >
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01 Feb 2013, 7:28 pm
