Study combines neuroimaging with machine learning to predict, with 96% accuracy, whether high-risk 6‑month-old babies will develop autism spectrum disorder (ASD) by age 2

— A Sin­gle Brain Scan Has Been Used to Accu­rate­ly Pre­dict Autism at Just 6 Months Old (Sci­ence alert) “Researchers have used brain scans and arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence to spot dif­fer­ences in how key areas of infant brains syn­chro­nise, allow­ing them to accu­rate­ly pre­dict which babies would devel­op autism spec­trum dis­or­der (ASD) as a toddler…The research, led…

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The future of EEG-based personal devices monitoring brain function: Key neurotechnology patent #26

medical communication device

Today we high­light a very inter­est­ing 2006 patent assigned to Phillips and Accen­ture — who have been col­lab­o­rat­ing  to devel­op soft­ware for EEG-based oper­a­tion of home appli­ances to aid patients suf­fer­ing from neu­ro­gen­er­a­tive dis­eases such as ALS (amy­otroph­ic lat­er­al scle­ro­sis). U.S. Patent No. 7,138,902: Per­son­al med­ical com­mu­ni­ca­tion device and sys­tem Assignee(s): Phillips, Accen­ture Inventor(s): Ray­mond J.…

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Brain stimulation using magnetic fields: Key Neurotech Patent #12

Magnetic-field-stimulation

Today we are dis­cussing a 2003 patent, assigned to McLean Hos­pi­tal, pio­neer­ing brain stim­u­la­tion tech­niques. U.S. Patent No. 6,572,528: Mag­net­ic field stim­u­la­tion tech­niques Assignee(s): McLean Hos­pi­tal Inventor(s): Michael L. Rohan, Aimee Par­row, Per­ry F. Ren­shaw Tech­nol­o­gy Cat­e­go­ry: Hybrid Issue Date: June 3, 2003 Sharp­Brains’ Take: The ‘528 patent dis­clos­es mag­net­ic stim­u­la­tion tech­niques for enhanc­ing brain function…

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Reinventing brain health via new ways to assess and enhance brain function across the lifespan

———- Dur­ing this 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit ses­sion, we explored new ways to assess and enhance brain func­tion via mobile devices and wear­ables, led by Corin­na E. Lath­an, Founder and CEO of Anthro­Tron­ix, Eddie Mar­tucci, VP Research & Devel­op­ment at Akili Inter­ac­tive Labs, Alex Doman, Co-Founder of Sleep Genius, Joan Sev­er­son, Pres­i­dent of Dig­i­tal Arte­facts, and Kei­th Epstein, Senior Strate­gic Advi­sor at AARP. –>…

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Brain scan study finds links between adolescent brain development and mental health disorders

Scans reveal how teenage brain devel­ops (BBC News): “The team from Cam­bridge’s depart­ment of psy­chi­a­try scanned the brains of 300 peo­ple between the ages of 14 and 24. While the areas asso­ci­at­ed with the basic func­tion­ing of the body such as vision, hear­ing and move­ment are ful­ly devel­oped by ado­les­cence, the areas asso­ci­at­ed with com­plex thought…

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