Posts Tagged ‘brain-activity’
Neurotech start-up Rythm raises $11 million more to develop and commercialize sleep-monitoring headband Dreem
— Dreem machine: Rythm raises $11 million and launches $500 sleep-monitoring headband (VentureBeat) “Founded out of France in 2014, Rythm is now based in San Francisco, where it has been working toward bringing its Dreem machine headband to market…In a nutshell, Rythm touts itself as a neurotechnology company that’s setting out to “enhance” your sleep,
Read MoreThe future of personalized brain stimulation via enhanced cognitive-emotive profiles: Key neurotechnology patent #31
Today we highlight a fascinating 2008 patent describing how to combine a number of neurotechnologies (EEG feedback, TMS brain stimulation, monitoring/ training software) to help “upgrade” one’s cognitive-emotive profile. U.S. Patent No. 7,460,903: Method and system for a real time adaptive system for effecting changes in cognitive-emotive profiles Inventor(s): Jaime A. Pineda, Brendan Z. Allison Technology…
Read MoreThe evolution of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS): Key Neurotech Patent #23
Today we are sharing a 2006 patent assigned to Brainlab. (As mentioned, we are featuring a foundational Pervasive Neurotech patent a day, from older to newer by issue date) U.S. Patent No. 7,008,370: Method and device for transcranial magnetic stimulation. Assignee(s): Brainlab Ag Inventor(s): Phillip Tanner, Andreas Hartlep, Henrik Wist, Kerstin Wendicke, Thomas Weyh Technology Category: Transcranial Stimulation Issue…
Read MoreNext: Harnessing brain scans to personalize autism-related behavioral interventions
Autism First: Brain Patterns May Predict Treatment Response (Medscape): “It’s possible to predict whether a young child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) will respond to an evidence-based behavioral intervention by analyzing brain activity patterns with functional MRI (fMRI) prior to treatment
Read MoreAdding mindfulness to the PTSD therapist’s toolkit
—– Soldiers who return home in casts and caskets are not the only ones struck down by the trauma of war. Many young military men and women carry emotional wounds far beyond the battlefield in the form of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This
Read MoreNext: Consumer-facing neurotechnologies to augment everyday work and life
Neurotechnology Could Lead to Thought-Controlled Devices (BizTech): “To interact with a computer, users generally type on a keyboard, swipe their fingers across a screen or speak a voice command. What if, instead, the machine simply responded to their thoughts?
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