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World's First "Brain Vital Signs" Revolutionizes The Science Behind Brain HealthInnovative NeuroCatch™ brain imaging technology changes how we understand brain waves SURREY, BC, June 1, 2016 /CNW/ - A team led by a world-renowned neuroscientist from Simon Fraser University (SFU) has announced a global game-changing healthcare breakthrough, which is revolutionizing the way we measure brain health. Dr. Ryan D'Arcy and team have discovered a way to extract a simple series of brain vital signs (the new science for analyzing brain waves) from longstanding brainwave technologies that have been around for nearly a century. To make sure the science advance is accessible, the team is developing the new NeuroCatch™ platform for the highest quality brain vital sign monitoring. Currently in the development phase, NeuroCatch™ makes it possible to translate the brain waves into objective, practical and deployable brain vital signs that help better monitor brain health. In a highly accessed peer-reviewed study, just published this month in the international journal Frontiers in Neuroscience, scientists explain that - like other vital signs - such as blood pressure, heart rate and pulse oxygenation – the development of brain vital signs represents an essential advance to monitor brain health. The ground-breaking discovery demonstrated:
"Brain vital signs represents a scientific breakthrough we have been working towards for more than 20 years, which can soon be made accessible to people through the forthcoming NeuroCatch™ brain monitoring platform. There is no doubt that this discovery will revolutionize our ability to provide better treatments for injuries like concussions, brain injuries, and stroke along with diseases like Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis, and so many others," says Dr. Ryan D'Arcy, SFU's BC Leadership Chair in Medical Technologies, Head of Health Sciences and Innovation at Surrey Memorial Hospital, and President & Chief Scientific Officer of HealthTech Connex Inc. "Much like how we monitor blood pressure in hospital, in clinics, or at home, we plan to bring brain vital signs to any portable brainwave device that can be used by health care specialists and any individual who wants to regularly track their own brain health." Brain Vital Signs framework illustration link: www.HTCBrainVitalSigns.com Illustration: How the NeuroCatch™ brain monitoring platform breaks down the brainwaves into a brain vital sign framework to analyze the brain's overall vitality, which allows for complex brainwave responses to be extracted as indicators of brain health and measures of improved brain vitality. About the Science About brain vital signs and NeuroCatch™: In order to move these embedded laboratory advances into globally accessible brain care, Dr. Ryan D'Arcy and the team at HealthTech Connex Inc. began developing the NeuroCatch™ brain monitoring platform in the fall of 2015 and have quickly been able to deploy initial successful evaluations for use in concussion, brain injury, brain health monitoring, and the measurement of treatments for recovery. New trials for monitoring healthy cognitive enhancement along with early detection of dementia are now underway. About HealthTech Connex Inc. SOURCE HealthTech Connex Inc. |