The Stopcock Social
Philadelphia, PA || May 21, 2023
On May 21, we held the Stopcock Social at the Moberg Intergalactic Headquarters in celebration of neuroscience nurses who were attending the American Association of Critical Care Nurses in Philadelphia. It was co-hosted by Dr. DaiWai Olson, one of the premier neuroscience nurses on the planet, who co-branded the evening as the “Neuro Nurse Nerd Night” as we had a lot of fun technology to play with.
DaiWai is explaining the operation of the device.
Sample annotations from this device were obtained through an ongoing clinical trial.
This project originated at the company but has been further developed by some wicked smart Drexel University students doing their Senior Design project with us.
DaiWai and Mary Kay Bader (another superstar neuroscience nurse) play BrainBall, a game we developed many years ago where a ball rolls across a table to your goal depending on how relaxed you are (as measured by EEG alpha activity).
Dr. Dan Licht, a neurologist from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and one of the world’s experts in diffuse correlation spectroscopy as applied to non-invasive brain monitoring, attended along with Dr. Jana Kainerstorfer, a biomedical engineering professor at Carnegie Mellon University where she runs the Biophotonics Lab.
Our friend Carlos Bremer from brain4care was in town for the meeting and brought his noninvasive ICP sensor so we could do the world’s first experiment on whether brain compliance changes while you are under pressure to relax.
A selfie taken by the Drexel Senior Design team and others after playing BrainBall.
Attendees mingled in our Museum of Brain Monitoring, which features oddities such as The Grateful Head, an EEG simulator we built in the 90’s, and one of the first multimodal neuromonitoring devices built by Dr. Wolfgang Fleckenstein, inventor of the Licox.
