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ReviewClinical pharmacology and therapeutics2018

Brain Monitoring Devices in Neuroscience Clinical Research: The Potential of Remote Monitoring Using Sensors, Wearables, and Mobile Devices.

Bill Byrom, Marie McCarthy, Peter Schueler, Willie Muehlhausen

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In one paragraph

Review in Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
41citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

41 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 91 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Neurofeedback for functional neurological disorders: future directions for research and clinical practice.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2026
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  8. Assessment of cognitive load in the context of neurosurgery.International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Bill ByromICON Clinical Research, Marlow, UK.
Marie McCarthyICON Clinical Research, Dublin, Ireland.
Peter SchuelerICON Clinical Research, Cologne, Germany.
Willie MuehlhausenICON Clinical Research, Dublin, Ireland.
The Institute of Conservation · GBIcon (United Kingdom) · GBWest German Broadcasting Cologne · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The increasing miniaturization and affordability of sensors and circuitry has led to the current level of innovation in the area of wearable and microsensor solutions for health monitoring. This facilitates the development of solutions that can be used to measure complex health outcomes in nonspecialist and remote settings. In this article, we review a number of innovations related to brain monitoring including portable and wearable solutions to directly measure brain electrical activity, and solutions measuring aspects related to brain function such as sleep patterns, gait, cognition, voice acoustics, and gaze analysis. Despite the need for more scientific validation work, we conclude that there is enough understanding of how to implement these approaches as exploratory tools that may provide additional valuable insights due to the rich and frequent data they produce, to justify their inclusion in clinical study protocols.

Indexed as

BrainTelemedicineWearable Electronic DevicesActigraphyCognitionElectroencephalographyEye Movement MeasurementsGait AnalysisHumansMobile ApplicationsNeurophysiological MonitoringSleepSmartphone

Identifiers

PMID29574776
PMCPMC6032823
OpenAlexW2791572672

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