Plexon

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Plexon

Industry Biotechnology

Predecessor Spectrum Scientific

Founded 1983; 38 years ago in Dallas, Texas, United States

Founder Harvey Wiggins

Headquarters United States

Website www.plexon.com

Plexon (from "plexus," a term describing a network of nerve cells) is an American

company that "invents, develops, and manufactures hardware and software that
acquires, amplifies, records, and analyzes signals from individual brain cells." [1] It is
based in Dallas, Texas and is very close to the campus of Southern Methodist
University with a satellite office in Brussels, Belgium. It primarily services academic
researchers doing work in neuroscience and electrophysiology. Plexon equipment
has been used in "areas of study including autism, prosthetic limb control for
paralysis patients, and the effects of drugs on brain processing and memory." [1] In
addition, it also develops equipment and software for behavioral video tracking. [1]

History[edit]
Harvey Wiggins of Dallas, Texas founded Spectrum Scientific in 1983. In the early
days of Spectrum Scientific, design and manufacturing was conducted solely by
Wiggins with backing and most funding being provided by Don Woodward at
the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and the National Institutes of
Health. In 1988, the original Multichannel Data Acquisition system (abbreviated as
MAP or "Harvey box") was developed and uses hardware filtering of data signals.
The replacement for the MAP, the Omniplex system, was released in 2009 and
replaces the hardware filtering components with filtering in software. Due to many
contributions like these, Plexon and Harvey Wiggins have become iconic in the
neuroscience community. Dr. Regina Carelli, a professor of psychology at the
University of North Carolina, describes Harvey as "wonderful--A scientist much more
than a salesman."[1]
Spectrum Scientific became known as Plexon in 1996. Plexon celebrated its 30th
anniversary in February 2013.[1][2][3]
Since 2001, Plexon has been repeatedly recognized by the technology business
community in Dallas, Texas for rapid growth.[4]

Educational training[edit]
Plexon sponsors an annual educational training workshop in Dallas [2]

References[edit]
1. ^ Jump up to:          Kripke, Pamela (8 December 2009). "Meet
a b c d e

Harvey Wiggins, the Little-Known Man Behind Dallas'

Greatest Medical Invention". D CEO. Retrieved 3
July  2013.
2. ^ Jump up to:a b "Plexon Celebrates 30th Anniversary as
Supplier of Neural Data Acquisition Systems".  Neurotech
Business Report: 6. February 2013.
3. ^ "Harvey Wiggins". Plexon, Inc. Retrieved  3 May 2013.
4. ^ "Corporate awards". Plexon. Retrieved  3 May 2013.
Categories: 
 Medical technology companies of the United States
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 This page was last edited on 13 December 2019, at 01:33 (UTC).