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Digital therapeutics pioneer Akili Interactive plans to go public in mid-2022 at a $1B valuation

January 26, 2022 by SharpBrains

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 at about $1 bil­lion, Akili and Social Cap­i­tal Suvret­ta Hold­ings Corp. I said in a state­ment seen by Bloomberg. It will pro­vide as much as $412 mil­lion in gross cash pro­ceeds, the com­pa­nies said. [Read more…] about Dig­i­tal ther­a­peu­tics pio­neer Akili Inter­ac­tive plans to go pub­lic in mid-2022 at a $1B valuation

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Filed Under: Attention & ADD/ADHD, Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: adhd, Akili Interactive, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Chamath Palihapitiya, cognitive-impairments, digital therapeutics, EndeavorRx, FDA, neuropsychiatric, neuropsychiatric treatment, Social Capital Suvretta Holdings, treatment, video-game

Study shows promising results of EEG-based brain training in helping adults with ADHD

July 8, 2021 by SharpBrains

Man­ag­ing atten­tion deficit dis­or­der by train­ing the brain (Sci­enceDai­ly):

Atten­tion Deficit Hyper­ac­tiv­i­ty Dis­or­der (ADHD) affects about 7% of chil­dren, with a two out of three chance of per­sist­ing into adult­hood. This neu­rode­vel­op­men­tal dis­or­der is char­ac­terised by con­cen­tra­tion dif­fi­cul­ties, increased dis­tractibil­i­ty, impul­siv­i­ty and hyper­ac­tiv­i­ty. Today, ADHD is treat­ed with phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal drugs that may have unwant­ed side effects. This is why sci­en­tists from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Gene­va (UNIGE) and the Uni­ver­si­ty Hos­pi­tals of Gene­va (HUG), Switzer­land, explored a new tech­nique called ‘neu­ro­feed­back’, which enables ADHD patients to train their atten­tion, based on instant feed­back from the lev­el of their brain activ­i­ty. [Read more…] about Study shows promis­ing results of EEG-based brain train­ing in help­ing adults with ADHD

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Filed Under: Attention & ADD/ADHD, Brain/ Mental Health, Peak Performance, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: adhd, adulthood, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, brain training, brain training for adhd, clinical, clinical neurophysiology, EEG, electroencephalogram, executive-function, neurobehavioral, neurocognitive, neurodevelopmental disorder, Neurofeedback, neurophysiology, neuroplasticity, pharmaceutical drugs, Training-the-Brain

Akili Interactive Labs raises $160M in equity and debt to transform cognitive healthcare via prescription videogame treatments

May 26, 2021 by SharpBrains

Akili rais­es $110m to build its dig­i­tal ther­a­peu­tics pipeline (phar­mafo­rum):

Endeav­or­Rx became the first and so far only approved pre­scrip­tion video game treat­ment in the US when it was cleared by the FDA last year to treat atten­tion-deficit hyper­ac­tiv­i­ty dis­or­der (ADHD), and has also been giv­en a green light in Europe. [Read more…] about Akili Inter­ac­tive Labs rais­es $160M in equi­ty and debt to trans­form cog­ni­tive health­care via pre­scrip­tion videogame treatments

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Filed Under: Attention & ADD/ADHD, Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: adhd, Akili, Akili Inter­ac­tive Labs, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, cognitive healthcare, cognitive--disorders, digital therapeutics, EndeavorRx, FDA, Neuberger Berman, prescription digital therapeutics, videogame

Large study with twins highlights the limited role of genetics in mental health and the importance of effective early interventions for ADHD

November 28, 2018 by Dr. David Rabiner

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Mul­ti­ple stud­ies have indi­cat­ed that, on aver­age, youth with ADHD have poor­er out­comes in young adult­hood in mul­ti­ple areas com­pared to their unaf­fect­ed peers.

A lim­i­ta­tion of these stud­ies, how­ev­er, is that they have not typ­i­cal­ly dis­tin­guished between indi­vid­u­als whose ADHD per­sists into adult­hood from those where the con­di­tion remits. [Read more…] about Large study with twins high­lights the lim­it­ed role of genet­ics in men­tal health and the impor­tance of effec­tive ear­ly inter­ven­tions for ADHD

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Filed Under: Attention & ADD/ADHD, Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: adhd, ADHD symptopms, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Genetics, mental health problems, psychiatry, symptopms

Think twice before taking Aderall for cognitive enhancement: It may actually impair working memory and other cognitive abilities

July 23, 2018 by SharpBrains

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ADHD drugs do not improve cog­ni­tion in healthy col­lege stu­dents (Sci­enceDai­ly):

“Con­trary to pop­u­lar belief across col­lege cam­pus­es, atten­tion deficit hyper­ac­tiv­i­ty dis­or­der (ADHD) med­ica­tions may fail to improve cog­ni­tion in healthy stu­dents and actu­al­ly can impair func­tion­ing, accord­ing to a study by researchers at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Rhode Island and Brown Uni­ver­si­ty. [Read more…] about Think twice before tak­ing Ader­all for cog­ni­tive enhance­ment: It may actu­al­ly impair work­ing mem­o­ry and oth­er cog­ni­tive abilities

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Filed Under: Attention & ADD/ADHD, Brain/ Mental Health, Peak Performance Tagged With: amphetamine, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, cognitive, cognitive-abilities, emotional, improve-cognition, medications, neurocognition, prescription, prescription stimulant medications, psychostimulants, stimulant, Working-memory

Brain training franchisor LearningRx settles FTC complaint about its marketing claims

May 24, 2016 by SharpBrains

BrainTraining_learningRxLearn­ingRx To Pay $200K For Alleged­ly Unproven Claims That Brain Train­ing Can Improve Income, Treat Autism & ADHD (Con­sumerist):

“The com­pa­ny behind the Learn­ingRX “brain train­ing” pro­gram has agreed to pay a $200,000 set­tle­ment and to stop mak­ing claims that its sys­tem is clin­i­cal­ly proven to treat seri­ous health con­di­tions, or that it can [Read more…] about Brain train­ing fran­chisor Learn­ingRx set­tles FTC com­plaint about its mar­ket­ing claims

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Alzheimer-disease, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism, Brain-games, Brain-Training, brain-training-games, claims, dementia, Federal Trade Commission, FTC, health claims, LearningRx, marketing, strokes, Traumatic-Brain-Injury

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