Detecting magnetism generated within the brain!

[Ian PParticipant @ianp]

I saw a short item on the Channel 4 news a few days ago and I am bowled over by the thought that it is possible to detect the magnetic field generated by the current flowing in the nerves of the human body. (Neat 3D printed headgear too)

Link is to the 5 minute long segment from the 7pn news

Channel 4 News Item

Ian P

[Ian PParticipant @ianp]

Mind boggling technology

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

Sharks have been doing it for a while now

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Fabulous work there, Ian … thanks for the link

 

Orders of magnitude improvement on the old EEG kit !

MichaelG.

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Ref. https://www.medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com/medtech-memoirs-the-electroencephalograph-eeg/

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 29/07/2023 03:58:40

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

A little more info, here: **LINK**

https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/children-with-epilepsy-to-benefit-from-wearable-brain-scanner

MichaelG.

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Edit:__ and the ‘advert’ for Nottingham as a research establishment achieving actual progress

https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/research.aspx

Edit: __ meanwhile, there is a sobering piece about University funding, in the FT Edit  

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 29/07/2023 07:24:06

[Ian PParticipant @ianp]

Posted by Michael Gilligan on 29/07/2023 03:52:37:

Fabulous work there, Ian … thanks for the link

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 29/07/2023 03:58:40

No need to thank me for the work, all I did was watch Channel 4 News

There is more info here on how the sensors work here, a long, but good read

Magnetoencephalography (The optically pumped version)

Ian P

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

‘There’ being the University of Nottingham

Thanks for the further link

MichaelG.

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Edit:__ I may need to read that several times, but even on a quick-skim it is awesome, to the point of being humbling

… we need more clever people doing stuff like this.

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 29/07/2023 20:22:18

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