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On March 15th 2015, Tim Buckinx’ son said: “Papa, you work in digital, can’t you create a light that turns on when my brain switches off?” At ten years old, he was simply fed up with the daily impact of his refractory epilepsy. That pain became a vision, and that vision became the Belgian digital therapeutics company epihunter, aimed at enabling people with a brain ...
Electroencephalography (EEG) devices are incredibly helpful in diagnosing and monitoring certain brain disorders, such as epilepsy and strokes. However, they are not particularly user-friendly or convenient, with specialized technicians performing time consuming procedures, such as skin preparation, to get patients ready to undergo the procedure. A combination of messy gels and wires also makes ...
More than 250,000 people are living with epilepsy in Australia, of which 1 in 7 are having difficult-to-notice absence seizures. Such seizures are different from tonic-clonic (convulsive) seizures, and are typically shorter in length, with a brief loss of consciousness. Even though this type of seizure usually does not lead to physical injury, it has a major impact on the wellbeing of the person ...
One such entity is TRISH, who chose Empatica to develop EmbracePlus to be the first wearable to monitor the health of the astronaut crew that will board the first manned mission to Mars. 50 years ago, on November 19th, 1969, Apollo 12 made a precision landing on the surface of the moon. ...
The core of the product is the AI algorithm to detect absence seizures, and upon detection, seizures are automatically signalled and logged and they can be automatically video-recorded too. Different from convulsive seizures, absence seizures are difficult-to-notice, short and the person is not aware of having them. ...
“Including video in epileptic seizure detection has the potential to change the way neurologists and epileptologists assess and document seizure frequency and the effect of therapy,” says Dr Sándor Beniczky, Head of Clinical Neurophysiology at the Danish Epilepsy Centre. It is estimated that 1 in 100 people have epilepsy, and 1 in 3 people with epilepsy continue to experience ...
Belgian startup, epihunter, introduces automated video functionality to their CE-marked seizure detection app - a breakthrough for children and adults with epilepsy, their families and doctors. “Including video in epileptic seizure detection has the potential to change the way neurologists and epileptologists assess and document seizure frequency and the effect of therapy,” says Dr ...