Latest News

Latest News: (for the older news check the archive)

05/24/14 - Video of the first wireless transmission of tripolar concentric ring electrode electroencephalography by Dr. Besio group’s has been published (link).
05/19/14 - Paper entitled "Significant improvement in one-dimensional cursor control using Laplacian electroencephalography over electroencephalography" has been published in the Journal of Neural Engineering (doi, pdf).
05/14/14 - Dr. Besio received the 2014 URI Intellectual Property Patent Excellence Award (link).
04/25/14 - The Besio group’s research makes the front page of NSF (link, snapshot, pdf).
03/14/14 - Dr. Besio is recognized by the Universiry of Rhode Island for two patents issued in 2013 (link).

News Archive:

12/08/13 - Two papers have been presented at the IEEE Signal Processing in Medicine and Biology Symposium (SPMB13) in New York City (pdf #1, pdf #2).
11/27/13 - Dr. Besio's work is featured in the Universiry of Rhode Island
Big Thinkers series (link).
07/25/13 - Paper entitled "Effects of transcranial focal electrical stimulation alone and associated with a sub-effective dose of diazepam on pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus and subsequent neuronal damage in rats" has been published online and in September's issue of Epilepsy & Behavior (doi, pdf).
07/07/13 - Two papers have been presented at 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society in Osaka, Japan (pdf #1, pdf #2).
06/08/13 - Two papers have been presented at Fifth International Brain-Computer Interface Meeting in Pacific Grove, California (pdf #1, pdf #2).
04/12/13 - CREmedical is featured in the Universiry of Rhode Island video "Innovation, Design and Invention at URI: A Hub for RI's Economy" (link).
03/18/13 - CREmedical is featured in Providence Business News article "Research emphasis paying off in patents at URI" (link, pdf).
02/19/13 - CREmedical is featured in Boston Business Journal article "RI works to build innovation economy seen in Mass. and Calif." (link).
02/18/13 - Paper entitled "Transcranial focal electrical stimulation via tripolar concentric ring electrodes does not modify the short- and long-term memory formation in rats evaluated in the novel object recognition test" has been published online and in April's issue of Epilepsy & Behavior (doi, pdf).
01/07/13 - Paper entitled "Effects of transcranial focal stimulation via tripolar concentric ring electrodes on pentylenetetrazole-induced seizures in rats" has been published online in Epilepsy Research (doi, pdf).
12/20/12 - The Besio group’s research makes the front page of NSF (link, snapshot, pdf).
12/17/12 - Paper entitled "Automatic seizure detection in rats using Laplacian EEG and verification with human seizure signals" has been published online in Annals of Biomedical Engineering (doi, pdf).
12/08/12 - CREmedical receives an NSF SBIR Phase I award (link).
12/07/12 - Two abstracts have been presented at American Epilepsy Society's 66th Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA (link #1 and link #2).
10/21/12 - Two abstracts have been presented at Society for Neuroscience 42nd Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA (link #1 and link #2).
09/27/12 - Paper entitled "Ischemia-reperfusion increases blood-brain barrier permeability and alters tight junction protein expression in ovine fetuses" has been published online in Neuroscience (doi, pdf).
09/01/12 - Two papers have been presented at 34th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society in San Diego (pdf #1, pdf #2).
07/06/12 - Paper entitled "Toward a noninvasive automatic seizure control system in rats with transcranial focal stimulations via tripolar concentric ring electrodes" has been published online and in July's issue of IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (doi, pdf).
06/05/12 - Paper entitled "Noninvasive transcranial focal stimulation via tripolar concentric ring electrodes lessens behavioral seizure activity of recurrent pentylenetetrazole administrations in rats" has been published online in IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (doi, pdf).
04/06/12 - Paper entitled "Automatic food intake detection based on swallowing sounds" has been published online in Biomedical Signal Processing and Control (doi, pdf).
03/26/12 - The Besio group’s research is featured in Rhode Island Science and Technology Advisory Council article "The TCRE: An Elegant Solution to The Problem of EEG Interference" (link).