Alzheimer Disease

Neuronetrix Announces Preliminary Alzheimer's Study Results at the Society for Neuroscience Conference

Published in Medical Imaging Week, December 27th, 2008

Last week, at the Society for Neuroscience Conference in Washington DC, Neuronetrix announced preliminary results from a clinical study of their COGNISION(TM) System to diagnose Alzheimer's disease. The study was performed with Alzheimer's patients at the University of Kentucky's Sanders-Brown Center for Aging.

The COGNISION(TM) System uses event-related potentials (ERP) to record brain activity while the patient listens to a sequence of sounds. Subjects with Alzheimer's process auditory information differently than healthy individuals and that difference can be detected with the test.

The ability of the ERP method to diagnose Alzheimer's disease has...

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Source: Medical Imaging Week (2008-12-27)

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