Posts Tagged ‘neuropsychiatric’
Digital therapeutics pioneer Akili Interactive Labs goes public, raising $150M+; trades down 49% first day
Akili Interactive is the latest company to go public via SPAC deal (Boston Business Journal): Boston’s Akili Interactive Labs Inc. is the latest Massachusetts-based company to go public after completing a reverse merger — in a year of market turmoil that saw few local firms passing the threshold between private and public status. Shares of…
Read MoreDigital therapeutics pioneer Akili Interactive plans to go public in mid-2022 at a $1B valuation
Palihapitiya-Led SPAC to Merge With Akili in $1 Billion Deal (Bloomberg): Akili Interactive, a startup that has developed a video game to help treat attention-deficit disorders in kids, has agreed to go public through a merger with one of Chamath Palihapitiya’s blank-check companies. The deal, which confirms a Bloomberg News report, values the combined entity…
Read MoreStudy: Personalized, closed-loop neuromodulation can (one day) become a “pacemaker for the brain”
Treating Severe Depression with On-Demand Brain Stimulation (UCSF press release): UCSF Health physicians have successfully treated a patient with severe depression by tapping into the specific brain circuit involved in depressive brain patterns and resetting them using the equivalent of a pacemaker for the brain. “This study points the way to a new paradigm that is…
Read MoreClick Therapeutics and Boehringer Ingelheim partner to develop and market a digital therapeutic to treat schizophrenia
Boehringer Ingelheim, Click Therapeutics ink $500M+ digital therapeutics development, commercialization deal (MobiHealthNews): International pharma Boehringer Ingelheim and prescription digital therapeutics company Click Therapeutics have inked a $500 million-plus deal to jointly develop and commercialize a digital treatment for patients with schizophrenia.
Read MoreSurvey finds ischaemic stroke and altered mental status as most common neurological complications in severe COVID-19 cases
Brain damage, psychiatric problems reported in severe coronavirus cases, study says (Miami Herald): A new study shows that severe cases of the coronavirus can cause strokes and other neurological issues, or an “altered mental state” for patients. The research, published in the British medical journal Lancet Psychiatry, looked at a small pool of severe COVID-19…
Read MoreEpigenetics research opens potential door to prevent neurodevelopmental disorders
___ Epigenetic Changes Guide Development of Different Brain Regions (Dana Foundation): “It’s one of the greatest standing mysteries in neuroscience: Given that each cell in the human body contains the same DNA, how, exactly, does the brain develop into distinct functional regions, supported by different cell types? And how might that developmental program go awry,…
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