Smartphone App Could Make It Easy to Screen for Neurological Disease

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'Eye-Catching' Smartphone App Could Make It Easy to Screen for Neurological Disease 

UC San Diego News Center

Liezel Labios, April 29, 2022

University of California, San Diego (UCSD) researchers have enabled screening for neurological diseases through an eye-scanning smartphone application. The app employs the near-infrared camera built into many newer smartphones in combination with a conventional selfie camera to measure changes in the pupil's diameter, which could be used to evaluate a person's cognitive condition. The infrared camera allows the app to estimate pupil size with sub-millimeter accuracy across various eye colors, while the selfie camera records the stereoscopic distance between smartphone and user. Said UCSD's Colin Berry, “We hope that this opens the door to novel explorations of using smartphones to detect and monitor potential health problems earlier on.”   .. .

Personalized Medicine with Brain Stimulation

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A New Realm of Personalized Medicine with Brain Stimulation

Ben Paul | February 1, 2021

Researchers’ “skeleton key” can unlock a brain.

Machine-learning models developed by researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) and New York University can predict the impact of electrical stimulation on an individual's brain activity across multiple brain regions. The research paves the way for the use of personalized brain stimulation to treat certain neurological and mental disorders. The researchers created a novel electrical stimulation wave to map brain activity; machine learning models learn the map from brain data collected during stimulation. Said USC's Maryam Shanechi, "Our wave, which changes its amplitude and frequency randomly in time, allowed us to see and predict how the brain responded to a wide range of stimulation doses." ...