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Altoida raises further $14 million to “democratize digital cognitive assessment at scale” via augmented reality (AR) and AI

April 6, 2022 by SharpBrains

Altoi­da snags Mer­ck KGaA-led $14M fund­ing round for Alzheimer’s diag­nos­tic app (Fierce Biotech):

The $14 mil­lion top-up came from a mix of old and new investors, co-led by White­cap Ven­ture Part­ners and Mer­ck KGaA’s cor­po­rate VC arm, M Ven­tures, which also led the ini­tial tranche of series A financ­ing … The new­ly upsized fund­ing will help Altoi­da add to its work­force, pay for intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty and reg­u­la­to­ry fil­ings and con­tin­ue devel­op­ing its tech plat­form to assess neu­ro­log­i­cal func­tion. [Read more…] about Altoi­da rais­es fur­ther $14 mil­lion to “democ­ra­tize dig­i­tal cog­ni­tive assess­ment at scale” via aug­ment­ed real­i­ty (AR) and AI

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Altoida, assessment, brain health, cognitive decline, digital cognitive assessment, eye-tracking, hand and gait errors, M Ventures, Merck, neurocognitive, neurocognitive assessment, neurological function, pupil dilation

Study: Brain training games could be used to assess cognitive abilities, replace the Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE)

August 10, 2018 by SharpBrains

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The Use of Mobile Games to Assess Cog­ni­tive Func­tion of Elder­ly with and with­out Cog­ni­tive Impair­ment (Jour­nal of Alzheimer’s Disease):

Abstract: In the past few years numer­ous mobile games have been devel­oped to train the brain. There is a lack of infor­ma­tion about the rela­tion between the scores obtained in these games and the cog­ni­tive abil­i­ties of the patients. The aim of this study was to deter­mine whether or not mobile games can be used to assess cog­ni­tive abil­i­ties of elder­ly. Twen­ty healthy young adults, 29 old patients with cog­ni­tive impair­ments (Mini-Men­tal State Exam (MMSE) [Read more…] about Study: Brain train­ing games could be used to assess cog­ni­tive abil­i­ties, replace the Mini-Men­tal State Exam (MMSE)

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: assessment, cognitive evaluation, cognitive-abilities, cognitive-function, Cognitive-impairment, cognitive-impairments, dementia, Mini-Mental-State-Exam, MMSE, mobile games, Serious-Games, train the brain

Tailoring computing experience based on user’s mental state and quality of attention: Key neurotechnology patent #30

March 14, 2017 by SharpBrains

Automated selection
– Illus­tra­tive image from U.S. Patent No. 7,395,507

Today we high­light a fas­ci­nat­ing 2008 patent assigned to Microsoft, dis­cussing assess­ment tech­niques such as pupil track­ing or head ori­en­ta­tion sen­sors to iden­ti­fy where and what the user is focused on–and what types of  infor­ma­tion and/ or noti­fi­ca­tions to dis­play accordingly.

U.S. Patent No. 7,395,507: Auto­mat­ed selec­tion of appro­pri­ate infor­ma­tion based on a com­put­er user’s context.

  • Assignee(s): Microsoft Corporation
  • Inventor(s): James O. Robarts, Dan Newell, Ken­neth H. Abbott
  • Tech­nol­o­gy Cat­e­go­ry: Neuro-monitoring
  • Issue Date: July 1, 2008

SharpBrains’ Take:

The ‘507 patent dis­clos­es meth­ods for assess­ing a user’s men­tal state and more broad­ly the user’s con­text, to dis­cern whether or not to present the users with a mes­sage (e.g., an adver­tise­ment). [Read more…] about Tai­lor­ing com­put­ing expe­ri­ence based on user’s men­tal state and qual­i­ty of atten­tion: Key neu­rotech­nol­o­gy patent #30

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: assessment, attention, brain data, brain health assessment, Brain-health, mental state, Microsoft, Microsoft Corporation, neuro-monitoring, neuro-technology, neurological, patent, psychological

Survey: Would you take a brief assessment every year as an “annual mental check-up”?

July 12, 2016 by SharpBrains

surveyPlease answer this ques­tion and a few oth­er to help us bet­ter under­stand your thoughts and beliefs about brain health, and how we may be able to serve you bet­ter (should take no more than 5 min­utes to com­plete it):

Take the survey

Thank you in advance!

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: assessment, brain, health, mental-check-up, survey

Invest in Brain Health to Drive Innovation and Prosperity

July 30, 2012 by Veronika Litinski

In an increas­ing­ly knowl­edge-based and inno­va­tion-dri­ven econ­o­my, human brains—not finan­cial capital—are becom­ing the pri­ma­ry dri­vers of busi­ness suc­cess. Engaged, cre­ative cit­i­zens and work­ers mean the dif­fer­ence between suc­cess and fail­ure at the orga­ni­za­tion­al and soci­etal levels.

Look­ing at the prob­lem from the per­spec­tive of brain health, there are [Read more…] about Invest in Brain Health to Dri­ve Inno­va­tion and Prosperity

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Filed Under: Technology & Innovation Tagged With: aging, Anti-aging games, assessment, Atari, Baycrest, brain, brain capital, brain disorders, brain fitness coach, Brain-Fitness, Brain-health, brain-reserve, Brain-Training, Brainrush, Cogniciti, cognitive, cognitive-reserve, consumer healthcare, disability, games, innovation, MaRS, meditation, memory, Mental-Health, Michael-Posner, myelin, nervous system disorders, NeuroInsights, neuroplasticity, Neurotechnology, Nolan Bushnell, Peak Performance, speed-of-processing, Stress, videogames

Agenda @ 2012 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (June 7–14th)

May 11, 2012 by Alvaro Fernandez

82% of respon­dents to a 2012 Sharp­Brains sur­vey (n=3,165) agreed/ strong­ly agreed with “Adults of all ages should take charge of their own “brain fit­ness” with­out wait­ing for their doc­tors to tell them to,” and 77% agreed/ strong­ly agreed with “I would per­son­ally take a brief assess­ment every year as an “annu­al men­tal check-up.” This grow­ing aware­ness demands new ways to har­ness neu­ro­plas­tic­ity across the lifes­pan to opti­mize health, pro­duc­tiv­ity and qual­ity of life, and high­lights mar­ket oppor­tu­ni­ties. Click Here to see full Sum­mit agen­da, includ­ing 35+ speak­ers, 6 prod­uct presentation/ demos and 5 edu­ca­tion­al work­shops.

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: assessment, Brain-Fitness, health, lifespan, mental-check-up, neuroplasticity, survey

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