Posts Tagged ‘CNS’
MEG White Paper 2010 Functional Brain Mapping with Magnetoencephalography James R. Petite Jr. Ph.D.
Elekta and Orasi Medical have released a white paper detailing the opportunity for utilizing magnetoencephalography (MEG) technology to accelerate the development of drugs to treat neurological disorders. The paper describes MEG technology, its current clinical and research use, illustrates the comparison of MEG to EEG and importantly demonstrates how MEG can improve and accelerate the development of Central Nervous System (CNS) drugs.
The release of the paper comes at a critical time. With the average duration to bring a CNS drug to market exceeding 12 years—and only seven percent of neurological drugs making it to market—pharmaceutical companies are looking for technologies to assess the effect of drugs earlier and more accurately in the development process. “There is a critical need for better tools to ascertain brain function in drug development, as well as novel biomarkers that identify neurological drug and disease signatures,” said Michael Gold, Vice President, GlaxoSmithKline.
“We have heard firsthand from pharmaceutical thought leaders that there is no one modality that solves the current needs in CNS clinical drug development,” said Stephen Otto, Chairman of Elekta’s Neuromag Business. “The technical advantages and patient-friendly qualities of MEG make it a natural fit for the measurement of CNS drugs.”
To read more about how this novel application of MEG can accelerate drug development, reduce costs and improve CNS drug innovation by measuring neurological drug effects and real-time brain function throughout key phases of the drug development process, click here: www.orasimedical.com/2010megwhitepaper.
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We invite you to celebrate the joy of life expressed in France during the industrial revolution. Enjoy cocktails, dinner and live shows including aerialists, contortionist acrobats, can can dancers and more!
Rendezvous in the lower lobby of the Hilton Riverside Hotel in front of “Spirits” at 6.20pm. The Republic is located just blocks away from the Hilton. Transportation will be provided. This is a departure you do not want to miss!
FREEDOM . . .LOVE . . .TRUTH . . . . BEAUTY.
Oh, the life of a Bohemian!
It was a period of transition between two centuries, during which the social barriers collapsed. This time brought hope of a better life, and a rich cultural profusion promised decadence for all.
New Orleans, as the immortalized French city of the Americas, also had a bourgeois revolution, much of which can be attributed to the thought and vitality that arose from this turn of the century phenomenon. Join Elekta and emmerse yourself in the same Joie de Vivre inherent at the original Moulin Rouge!
For more information on this event – http://www.elekta.com/cns2009
Cancer – A complex set of diseases which involve malignant tumors capable of spreading. Can be systemic, such as leukemias, or organ specific, such as breast, kidney or lung cancer. Tumors grow in a manner uncoordinated with normal tissues and destroy healthy tissue.
Central nervous system (CNS) – The brain and spinal cord.
Carcinoma – A malignant tumor arising from an epithelium.
CAT Scan – Computer Assisted Tomography (see CT).
Chemotherapy – The application of cytotoxic (cell poisoning) agents to the patient through oral, injection or organ infusion methods in order to cure cancer. The dose administered is systemic and hence affects the whole being, resulting in wide spread side effects and is frequently delivered in fractions as the total dose would injure the patient if administered in a single treatment.
Cobalt 60 – A radioactive substance emitting gamma rays. Used in radiation therapy.
Conformal therapy – Radiation treatment where the shape of the treatment volume conforms to the dimensions of the tumor. IMRT is one type of conformal therapy.
CT (Computerized Tomography) – Imaging technique using computer processing to generate an image of the absorption of x-rays in a field of view. The field of view is devised as a slice so that a complete examination of the brain or body may be obtained by taking a series of slices, one above the other (other abbreviations are CAT scan, EMI scan).
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