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What’s normal? When it comes to the brain, it’s hard to say, and that’s why we need to study global neurodiversity

February 12, 2020 by Tan Le

In a small vil­lage in India—a place so remote it has no elec­tric­i­ty, no telecom­mu­ni­ca­tion sys­tem, and no cars or buses—a research work­er pre­pares to place an EEG head­set on a female villager’s head. The woman, who earns $3.75 a day labor­ing in a near­by rice pad­dy and who has nev­er ven­tured out­side her vil­lage, eyes the futur­is­tic device with trepidation.

“Is it going to hurt my head?” she asks.

Sathish, the research work­er, has heard this ques­tion before. In fact, he’s heard sev­er­al sim­i­lar queries from anx­ious vil­lagers who have got­ten scared when they saw the brainwear.

“Will it give me a headache?”

“Is it going to give me an elec­tric shock?”

He assures the woman the head­set is pain­less and explains that all she has to do is sit qui­et­ly and allow her mind to wan­der. Sathish gen­tly adjusts an array of elec­trodes on the woman’s head and [Read more…] about What’s nor­mal? When it comes to the brain, it’s hard to say, and that’s why we need to study glob­al neurodiversity

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Peak Performance, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: alpha oscillation, axons, Berger’s Wave, bias, big data, brain-enhancement, brain-related diseases, Brainnovations, brains, brainwaves, cognitive-processes, daydream, dendrites, EEG headset, India, neurodiversity, NeuroGeneration, Neurolabs, Neurons, neuroscience, neuroscience research, Neurotechnology, normal, psychiatric conditions, research, Sapien Labs, sharpbrains, SharpBrains Summit, synapses

Top Brainnovations to monitor and improve Brain Health

August 6, 2019 by SharpBrains

Top Brain­no­va­tions to mon­i­tor and improve Brain Health from Sharp­Brains

Hop­ing you enjoy this slid­edeck sup­port­ing the fas­ci­nat­ing Brainnova­tions Pitch Con­test held dur­ing the 2019 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: The Future of Brain Health (March 7–9th).  Full record­ings are avail­able for pur­chase here.

Giv­en the suc­cess of the first Brainnova­tions Pitch Con­test in 2017 (details here), the 2019 Sum­mit host­ed a sec­ond Brainnova­tions edi­tion for select­ed star­tups to pitch their inno­v­a­tive solu­tions to  Sum­mit par­tic­i­pants and to our dis­tin­guished Judges — our very own “Sharp Tank.”  

1–2.30pm. Top Brainnova­tions to mon­i­tor and improve Brain Health 

  • Final­ist: Kate Sharadin, Founder & CEO of eQui­l­i­ty
  • Final­ist: Nick­o­lai Vysokov,  Co-Founder & CEO of Brain­Patch
  • WINNER: Richard Han­bury, Founder & CEO of Sana Health
  • Judged by: Alexan­dra More­house, Chief Mar­ket­ing Offi­cer at Ban­ner Health; Dr. Robert Bilder, Chief of Med­ical Psy­chol­o­gy-Neu­ropsy­chol­o­gy at UCLA; Elan Tye, Investor at JAZZ Ven­ture Part­ners; Dr. Evian Gor­don, Founder, Chair­man and CMO of Total Brain; Dr. Hag­it Alon, VP Sci­en­tif­ic Affairs at Joy Ven­tures; John Cam­mack, Angel Investor; Kath­leen Herath, Vice Pres­i­dent Health & Pro­duc­tiv­i­ty at Nation­wide Insurance

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: brain health, Brainnovations, BrainPatch, eQuility, improve-brain-health, monitor brain health, Sana Health

Final 24 Hours for Brain Health Start-ups to Submit Pitches @ 2019 SharpBrains Virtual Summit

May 1, 2019 by SharpBrains

Heads-up: The Brain­no­va­tions Pitch Con­test, to be host­ed at the 2019 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit, will high­light 8 star­tups world­wide work­ing on ways to har­ness brain research and emerg­ing tech­nolo­gies to help every per­son thrive in the dig­i­tal age.

Star­tups sub­mit their ideas and solu­tions to pitch in front of our expert Judges and Sum­mit par­tic­i­pants for a chance to get feed­back, boost indus­try recog­ni­tion and win a prize pack­age that could give a boost to their ven­ture and solu­tion. The peri­od for sub­mis­sions is open till Thurs­day, May 2nd, and the Final­ists will be announced on Fri­day, May 3rd.

You can learn more about the first edi­tion of the Brainnova­tions Pitch Con­test and about the upcom­ing sec­ond Brainnova­tions edi­tion — check page for Guide­lines, FAQs and Sub­mis­sion Form.

We’re look­ing for­ward to hear­ing about many inno­v­a­tive ideas, prod­ucts and services!

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Learn More & Register:

2019 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: The Future of Brain Health (May 7–9th)

–-This will be the Brain­no­va­tions Judg­ing Panel…our very own “Sharp Tank”

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: brain health, Brainnovations

Sanofi Ventures leads $17M investment in Click Therapeutics, finalist @ 2017 Brainnovations Pitch Contest

July 25, 2018 by SharpBrains

Sanofi Backs Click Ther­a­peu­tics as Dig­i­tal Med­i­cines Gain Momen­tum (Xcon­o­my):

“Drug mak­ers are mak­ing more bets on the nascent field of dig­i­tal med­i­cine. The lat­est exam­ple: Click Ther­a­peu­tics announced Mon­day that it grabbed a $17 mil­lion invest­ment led by Sanofi Ven­tures, the Cam­bridge, MA-based ven­ture cap­i­tal arm of the French phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal giant. [Read more…] about Sanofi Ven­tures leads $17M invest­ment in Click Ther­a­peu­tics, final­ist @ 2017 Brain­no­va­tions Pitch Contest

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Brainnovations, cigarette smoking, Click Therapeutics, Clickotine, digital medicine, digital therapeutics, Pear Therapeutics, Sanofi Ventures, smartphone, smoking cessation, therapeutics, tobacco

Update: Study finds continued birth of new neurons (neurogenesis) well into our 70s

April 25, 2018 by SharpBrains

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Time for Sharp­Brains eNewslet­ter, bring­ing you the lat­est in in brain health and men­tal health research, tools and thinking.

Also, a quick heads-up for those based in the UK: the Impe­r­i­al Col­lege Cen­tre for Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy will host a keynote by Alvaro Fer­nan­dez in Lon­don on Wednes­day, May 30th, titled Why the Future of Brain Enhance­ment & Men­tal Health is Dig­i­tal & Per­va­sive (free; requires reg­is­tra­tion). Oth­er upcom­ing events here.

New research:

  • Study finds con­tin­ued birth of new neu­rons (neu­ro­ge­n­e­sis) well into our 70s
  • The more hours you sit per day, the small­er your medi­al tem­po­ral lobe (MTL) seems to become, brain scans show
  • Study com­bines MRI brain scans with sta­tis­tics to bet­ter pre­dict cog­ni­tive prob­lems after stroke

New tools:

  • Med­i­ta­tion app Calm said to be rais­ing $25M to become the “Nike of the mind”
  • Mind­strong Health iden­ti­fies dig­i­tal bio­mark­ers of cog­ni­tive func­tion using smart­phone data
  • Wear­able brain scan­ners to enable broad­er, eas­i­er, cheap­er access to neuroimaging

New thinking:

  • Com­bin­ing brain stim­u­la­tion with cog­ni­tive train­ing to enhance atten­tion and memory
  • Evi­dence review finds that com­put­er-based cog­ni­tive train­ing can sig­nif­i­cant­ly improve mem­o­ry in patients with mul­ti­ple scle­ro­sis (MS)
  • Despite grow­ing evi­dence against sup­ple­ments mak­ing brain/ mem­o­ry improve­ment claims, sales keep growing

 

Final­ly, please Save the Date for the sec­ond edi­tion of the Brain­no­va­tions Pitch Con­test on Decem­ber 5th, 2018. Giv­en the suc­cess of the inau­gur­al event last year (details here), the 2018 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit will host a sec­ond con­test for 12 star­tups to pitch their inno­v­a­tive solu­tions to all Sum­mit par­tic­i­pants and to dis­tin­guished Judges –our very own “Sharp Tank.”

Have a great month of May,

The Sharp­Brains Team

–- Mem­bers of the Brain­no­va­tions Judg­ing Panel

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: app, brain, Brain-health, brain-scans, brain-stimulation, Brainnovations, cognitive, Cognitive-Training, meditation, Mental-Health, Neurogenesis, Neurotechnology, smartphone

Save the Date for Brainnovations Pitch Contest on December 5th

April 18, 2018 by SharpBrains

Giv­en the suc­cess of the first Brainnova­tions Pitch Con­test last year (details here), the 2018 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit will host a sec­ond Brainnova­tions edi­tion, for 12 select­ed star­tups to pitch their inno­v­a­tive solu­tions to to all Sum­mit par­tic­i­pants and to our dis­tin­guished Judges –our very own “Sharp Tank”:

  • Dr. Hag­it Alon, VP Sci­en­tif­ic Affairs at Joy Ven­tures
  • Dr. David Barash, Chief Med­ical Offi­cer at the GE Foun­da­tion
  • Nichol Brad­ford, Co-Founder and ED of the Trans­for­ma­tive Tech Lab
  • John Cam­mack, Angel Investor
  • Ariel Garten, Founder and Chief Evan­ge­lism Offi­cer at Inter­aX­on
  • Dr. Evian Gor­don, Exec­u­tive Chair­man of Brain Resource
  • Dr. Adam Haim, Chief of the Small Busi­ness Inno­va­tion Research (SBIR) and Small Busi­ness Tech­nol­o­gy Trans­fer (STTR) Pro­grams at the Nation­al Insti­tute of Men­tal Health (NIMH)
  • Kath­leen Herath, Asso­ciate Vice Pres­i­dent Health & Pro­duc­tiv­i­ty at Nation­wide Insurance
  • Chris­t­ian Her­nan­dez, Man­ag­ing Part­ner at White Star Capital
  • Dr. Edward Kli­phuis, Invest­ment Direc­tor at Mer­ck Ventures
  • Dr. Cori Lath­an, Co-Chair of the World Eco­nom­ic Forum’s Coun­cil on the Future of Human Enhancement
  • Dr. Manuel López-Figueroa, Ven­ture Part­ner at Bay City Capital
  • Zack Lynch, Gen­er­al Part­ner at JAZZ Ven­ture Partners
  • Dr. Eddie Mar­tuc­ci, Co-Founder and CEO of Akili Inter­ac­tive Labs
  • Dr. Karen Postal, Pres­i­dent of the Amer­i­can Acad­e­my of Clin­i­cal Neu­ropsy­chol­o­gy (AACN)
  • Yan­nick Roy, Co-Founder of Neu­roTechX

We’ll announce more details by July 2nd, 2018. In the mean­time you can learn more here, here and here.

–-This will be the Brain­no­va­tions Judg­ing Panel…our very own “Sharp Tank”

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: brain-tech, Brainnovations, Neurotechnology, Pitch Contest

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