Upcoming market report on Pervasive Neurotechnology

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 2, 2015

Just a quick heads-up to the Sharp­Brains com­mu­ni­ty: we are wrap­ping up a com­pre­hen­sive mar­ket report on Per­va­sive Neu­rotech­nolo­gies (non-inva­­sive, scal­able, poten­tial­ly ubiq­ui­tous). To learn when it becomes avail­able, keep tuned via our e‑Newsletter. See below, in alpha­bet­i­cal order, a few of the orga­ni­za­tions to be pro­filed in the report, giv­en their rel­e­vant intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty portfolios…

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Update: Why brain training needs to be better targeted, and more widely available

By SharpBrains | August 29, 2014

— Time for Sharp­Brains’ August 2014 e‑newsletter, fea­tur­ing a wealth of insights, sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy reports…and this brain teas­er to exer­cise your men­tal rota­tion abil­i­ties. Enjoy! New trends: How to incor­po­rate mind­ful­ness into psy­chother­a­py Chal­leng­ing the out­dat­ed “fixed brain” dog­ma, the cog­ni­tive train­ing mar­ket keeps grow­ing Increased aware­ness and use of cog­ni­tive assess­ments seen as demen­­tia-relat­ed pri­or­i­ties by…

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Philips and Accenture develop ALS care proof of concept on top of Emotiv brain wave headset

By SharpBrains | August 8, 2014

Philips, Accen­ture test brain-con­trolled sys­tem for ALS patients (Reuters): “The Nether­lands’ Roy­al Philips and IT con­sul­tan­cy Accen­ture are devel­op­ing soft­ware to help peo­ple with neu­rode­gen­er­a­tive dis­eases like amy­otroph­ic lat­er­al scle­ro­sis, com­mon­ly known as Lou Gehrig’s dis­ease, live more independently.

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