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You told us you wanted a choice: a cart-based system for permanent installations and a lightweight portable for mobile applications. XLTEK listened, and we answered with Protektor, our leading-edge IOM system. Both configurations feature XLTEK’s ruggedness and deliver what you demand: unequalled reliability, flexibility and performance. more...
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Ambulatory EEG Systems Offer a Cost-Effective Alternative
Ambulatory EEG recording offers the electroencephalographer several important advantages. The laboratory s recording capacity may be increased without adding new space. Long-term EEG recording may be performed without constructing an inpatient unit costing between several hundred thousand and 1 million dollars. Long-term recording may be performed in a way which is more comfortable to the patient and representative of daily functioning in their own environment.
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Hydroxyapatite Bone Graft Material
Hydroxyapatite has been used as an autologous bone graft substitute in orthopedic surgery for more than a decade. These bone void fillers are available as blocks, powder, microcrystals, paste, granules. One key variable is the source. While most suppliers offer allograft material, some offer synthetic options. Each have their unique benefits: more rapid engraftment, zero risk of infection transmission, etc. Here are three examples of these materials:
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Study Finds Surprising Links Between Depression, Suicide, And Epilepsy
Researchers have found provocative evidence that the brain dysfunction that underlies epilepsy may also determine whether people are at risk for suicide. The study, published online October 10, 2005 ...
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Scientists Pinpoint Inflammation Gene
A team of international researchers has discovered that a specific gene on chromosome 15 regulates inflammation, a finding with implications for a wide range of disorders, including cancer, ...
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Fear Of Falling Gait Affects Many People s Ability To Walk
The patient came into the doctor s office in a wheelchair, weighted down by a diagnosis of Parkinson s disease, taking medication for the disorder and insisting she was unable to stand or ...
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Nerve Cells Possess A Previously Unknown Form Of Plasticity
Researchers have discovered a new form of synaptic plasticity, the changes to nerve cells in the brain that underlie learning and memory. The phenomenon, the scientists say, may help govern how a ...
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Neural Stem Cells Are Long-Lived
New studies in mice have shown that immature stem cells that proliferate to form brain tissues can function for at least a year — most of the life span of a mouse — and give rise to multiple types of ...
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Refractive Surgery An Option For Kids With High Bilateral Myopia
Refractive surgery may be an option for treating children with high myopia and neurobehavioral disorders who are unable to use either of the two principal methods of correcting myopia, spectacles or ...
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A Molecular Basis For Selective Therapeutic Intervention In Alzheimer s Disease
Alzheimer s disease, a complex neurological disorder, has as one of its hallmarks the presence of senile plaques in the brains of affected ...
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Shift In Brain s Language-Control Site Offers Rehab Hope
"This knowledge may give new hope for rehabilitation of brain function in adults after stroke or traumatic brain injuries," said Dr. Szaflarski. "The fact that language adaptability is seen even in ...
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Collaborations Yield New Discoveries In Psychiatric Genetics
Two New Jersey research teams are reporting discoveries about the biological nature of psychiatric disorders that may bring them closer to the ultimate goal of finding cures for complex diseases, ...
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Move Closer To Schizophrenia, Autism Cures
New Jersey scientists are reporting discoveries they say might lead to cures for such psychiatric disorders as autism and ...
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A New Analysis Of A Standard Brain Test May Help Predict Dementia
Although Alzheimer s disease affects millions of people worldwide, there is no way to identify this devastating brain disease at its earliest stages when there still may be time to delay or even ...
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The Brain Needs The Middle Ear To Track Depth
When you jaywalk, your ability to keep track of that oncoming truck despite your constantly changing position can be a lifesaver. But scientists do not understand how such constant updating of depth ...
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How The Brain Sorts Babble Into Auditory Streams
Known as "the cocktail party problem," the ability of the brain s auditory processing centers to sort a babble of different sounds, like cocktail party chatter, into identifiable individual voices ...
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Exercise In Midlife Could Reduce The Risk Of Dementia, Alzheimer’s
Being physically active in midlife could decrease a person’s risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) later in life, concludes an article published online today (Tuesday October 4, 2005) by The ...
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Varian Medical Systems To Highlight Trilogy, A Powerful New Product For Robotic Non-Invasive Neurosurgery, At The Congress Of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting
Varian Medical Systems will feature the newest, most advanced imaging and treatment technologies for image-guided non-invasive neurosurgery at the upcoming annual meeting of the Congress of ...
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Universal Biomedical Amplifier (UBA-4204)
LKC Technologies, Inc.
The UBA-4204, with its four differential channels, is superior to other amplifiers for several reasons. The signal is directly amplified and digitized without any AC coupling components providing ultra-low noise. Its large DC dynamic range (up to ±0.5 V) and high sensitivity (less than 1 mV) meet all requirements for detecting small signals without DC drifting or amplifier saturation. It provides true DC signal amplification, complete electrical isolation, weighs 8 oz., and is powered by a Lithium-ion rechargeable battery with an eight hour continuous use capability per recharge.
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CranioFix 2
AESCULAP
Now, Aesculap offers the next generation CranioFix Titanium Clamp System CranioFix 2, which is up to 40% faster than the original CranioFix and all flap fixation systems on the market.
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New, "no slip" gripping post allows the neurosurgeon to easily grip and position clamps in the craniotomy gap for faster and easier application. Larger inner cylinder subassembly for improved strength and durability. Larger fenestration of the inner cylinder subassembly for easier and more efficient cleaning.
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Vertebral Body Replacement (VBR)
Ulrich GmbH & Co. KG
The vertebral body replacement (VBR) is used for the anterior thoracic and lumbar spine. It is intended for use in the thoracic and lumbar spine to replace a collapsed, damaged, or unstable vertebral body due to tumor or trauma (i.e. fracture).
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