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Caption:Janes Castles reporting
Description: Brian Lithgow at press conference demonstrating EVestG technique with plastic model.
Narration: An innovative diagnostic technique invented by a Monash University researcher could dramatically fast-track the detection of mental and neurological illnesses.
Caption: Dr Roger Edwards. CEO Neural Diagnostics
Dr Roger Edwards: "One in four of us here today will have a serious neurological problem in our lifetime. Globally the world spends two trillion dollars a year on managing mental illness."
Description: Brian Lithgow at press conference demonstrating EVestG technique with plastic model.
This invention by biomedical engineer Brian Lithgow measures the shifting electrical activity of the brain and more specifically the vestibular or balance system.
Caption: Brian Lithgow. Biomedical Engineer
Brian Lithgow: "There are primitive links between the balance system and the emotional behavioural parts of the brain that were developed over millions of years of evolution. Why are we able to achieve so much? Well basically we're the only group in the world that can extract these signals”
Description: Hospital Laboratory and volunteer in specially designed chair being tested by Brian Lithgow for mental illness.
Narration: The patient sits in a specially designed chair that is able to trigger electrical responses in their balance system. These responses are recorded through an electrode placed in the individual's ear canal, and then assessed for any distinct significant electrical patterns.
Working with researchers at Monash's Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre he tested volunteers and found distinct patterns, or "biomarkers” that distinguished different Central Nervous System diseases from each other and from regular electrovestibular activity.
Caption: Professor Jayashri Kulkarni-Director MAPrc
Professor Jayashri Kulkarni: Patients have responded very well and I think it's also tapping into the fact that it's demystifying mental illness because there's a sense of comfort in science technology and medicine, a sense there's some thing can happen, some thing good can happen.
Description: Hospital Laboratory and volunteer in specially designed chair being tested by Brian Lithgow for mental illness and plastic model of ear canal.
Narration: Monash has teamed up with corporate partner Neural Diagnostics to develop electro-vesti-bulography or EVestG.
It is hoped that this simple, quick and inexpensive screening process will become standard in hospitals around the world.
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