New approach to chronic back pain with Body Synergy and Delsys EMG

Rowan Ellis, founder of the Body Synergy gym, has a simple but compelling approach to relieving musculoskeletal pain. His hypothesis: to protect the spine and joints, one must contract the right muscles at the right time. Rowan believes that poor physical awareness of which muscles we are using, especially the trapezius, is a root cause for a variety of back problems and some forms of migraine. The Delsys EMG system allows him to view clients’ muscle activity in great detail.

Snail brain physiology a highlight at Crawdad 2014

They're slow, spineless and slimy but if you think you don't have much in common with a snail, think again. Researchers are learning a surprising amount about the human brain by studying snails and we thought it was time to expand our snail neurophysiology session in the latest Crawdad educator's course.

New in LabChart 8: Easy access to shared data

Sometimes it’s the tiny details that make all the difference - in this case, a minor but important addition to the Welcome Center in LabChart 8 that lets you create easy access to shared data and settings.

New in LabChart 8: LabChart Pro for students

Our new Student Licenses provide access to LabChart Pro for data analysis. Your students can work on data outside of class, so you can devote more of their lab time to teaching hands-on, practical, data-collection techniques.

New in LabChart 8: Send and Publish your data

Another of our favorite additions to LabChart 8 are the Send and Publish functions. Designed to help both teachers and researchers, they’re a great way to share data from the classroom or the lab.

New in LabChart 8: Data Plots

The Data Plots feature lets you quickly create plots to analyze your data or even monitor trends in your data as you sample. You can make a plot right within LabChart – no more time spent cutting and pasting data between applications! Watch the video after the click.

Pulmonary artery hypertension gets the knock-out treatment

Novel signaling pathway demonstrated, involved in the pathogenesis of pulmonary artery hypertension. Possibility for future therapeutic interventions of pulmonary artery hypertension.

Supporting neuroscience education and research in Africa

For a third year running, ADInstruments has sponsored the annual "Teaching and Research in Neuroscience for Development in Africa" (TReND) summer schools at Kampala International University (KIU), Uganda.

Awesome wireless EMG system from Delsys

To show Delsys' new wireless EMG sensors in action, we recorded the EMG signals from a top gymnast as she ran, tumbled, and flipped through her routine. These sensors are compact and lightweight, enabling you to collect authentic signals of your subject's natural movement with no wires to get in the...

Setting impossibly high standards

Bar-headed geese are known for their exceptional feats of physical endurance. Their unique physiology is the focus of an international research team led by Prof. Peter Frappell (University of Tasmania).

Taking the edge out of workplace stress with Yoga

Study finds that several markers of stress can be significantly reduced with 15 minutes of daily office-based yoga.

Letting the cat out of the bag on wireless behavioral electrophysiology

A new approach to electrophysiological recordings in awake and free moving cats using combined video-tracking and wireless biopotential signals, including: LFP, MUA, EOG, EMG.

Early baby insight points to frail cardiovascular control

New study shows lower heart rate and blood pressure variability in pre-term babies, pointing to autonomic maturation deficits as a possible risk factor for SIDS.