data

Brain fitness meets HRV and EEG biometrics and neuroinformatics

by

As an active par­tic­i­pant in the Open­ViBE project (a soft­ware plat­form to design, test and use Brain-Com­put­er Inter­faces), in sci­en­tif­ic as well as tech­ni­cal capac­i­ties, I have long been focused on ways to process, ana­lyze and put brain sig­nals to prac­ti­cal use. When I start­ed read­ing on the sub­ject of brain fit­ness a few years ago, I rec­og­nized the poten­tial to enhance a vari­ety of brain train­ing approach­es, from med­i­ta­tion to cog­ni­tive train­ing, by deploy­ing [Read more…] about Brain fit­ness meets HRV and EEG bio­met­rics and neuroinformatics

New Sponsors @ 2012 SharpBrains Summit: AboutMyBrain, Advanced Brain Technologies, UnitedBioSource Corporation

by

We are proud to announce three new Spon­sors @ 2012 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: Opti­miz­ing Health through Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty, Inno­va­tion and Data (June 7–14th, 2012): [Read more…] about New Spon­sors @ 2012 Sharp­Brains Sum­mit: About­My­Brain, Advanced Brain Tech­nolo­gies, Unit­ed­BioSource Corporation

Invitation to Sponsor/ Exhibit @ 2012 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (June 7–14th)

by

We invite orga­ni­za­tions shap­ing the future of brain health and health over­all to become Spon­sors or Exhibitors @ 2012 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: Opti­miz­ing Health through Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty, Inno­va­tion and Data (June 7–14th, 2012), in order to expand a crit­i­cal con­ver­sa­tion, engage an influ­en­cial com­mu­ni­ty of ear­ly-adopters and deci­sion-mak­ers, and show­case inno­v­a­tive research, solu­tions, and ser­vices dur­ing the Sum­mit Expo (June 12–13th).

You can learn more via this Spon­sor­ship Brochure (opens PDF), and also con­sult this Sam­ple of Par­tic­i­pants in 2010/ 2011 Sharp­Brains Sum­mits (opens PDF). Par­tic­i­pants in pre­vi­ous Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mits include: [Read more…] about Invi­ta­tion to Sponsor/ Exhib­it @ 2012 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (June 7–14th)

Brain Resource to Sponsor 2012 SharpBrains Summit; announces Aetna initiative

by

Brain Resource has agreed to become a Gold Spon­sor @ 2012 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (June 7–14th): Opti­miz­ing Health through Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty, Inno­va­tion and Data. Thank you!

Brain Resource brings new insights and new effi­cien­cies to man­ag­ing brain health. Its pro­pri­etary plat­forms are used to pre­dict who will best respond to what drug, and devel­op new drugs, to pro­vide objec­tive reports from on-line assess­ments of brain health across the lifes­pan (includ­ing ADHD, Depres­sion, Anx­i­ety and Schiz­o­phre­nia), and to match indi­vid­u­al­ized pro­files with brain train­ing exer­cises & inter­ac­tive videos to opti­mize well­ness & brain function.

The com­pa­ny just announced a very inter­est­ing ini­tia­tive: Aet­na Rolls Out MyBrain­So­lu­tions Well­ness Site (Occu­pa­tion­al Health and Safety).

Pooling data to accelerate Alzheimer’s research

by

Very inter­est­ing arti­cle in the New York Times on the rea­sons behind grow­ing research of how to detect Alzheimer’s Dis­ease: Rare Shar­ing of Data Leads to Progress on Alzheimer’s (New York Times) 

(Sit­u­a­tion before) Sci­en­tists were look­ing for bio­mark­ers, but they were not get­ting very far. “The prob­lem in the field was that you had many dif­fer­ent sci­en­tists in many dif­fer­ent uni­ver­si­ties doing their own research with their own patients and with their own meth­ods,” said Dr. Michael W. Wein­er of the San Fran­cis­co Depart­ment of Vet­er­ans Affairs, who directs ADNI. “Dif­fer­ent peo­ple using dif­fer­ent meth­ods on dif­fer­ent sub­jects in dif­fer­ent places were get­ting dif­fer­ent results, which is not sur­pris­ing. What was need­ed was to get every­one togeth­er and to get a com­mon data set.”

(Sit­u­a­tion now) Com­pa­nies as well as aca­d­e­m­ic researchers are using the data. There have been more than 3,200 down­loads of the entire mas­sive data set and almost a mil­lion down­loads of the data sets con­tain­ing images from brain scans.

Com­ment: as dis­cussed in our recent mar­ket report, we’ll prob­a­bly see soon­er rather than lat­er a com­pa­ra­ble effort aimed at find­ing the bio­log­i­cal and or cog­ni­tive mark­ers for the Cog­ni­tive Reserve, the emerg­ing cor­ner­stone for a life­long men­tal well­ness (vs. a dis­ease-spe­cif­ic) approach. For more on the need to stan­dard­ize data and care, read inter­view with Patrick Dono­hue on Rein­vent­ing Brain Care through Pol­i­cy, Stan­dards, Tech­nol­o­gy. For more on the Cog­ni­tive Reserve, read inter­view with Dr. Yaakov Stern.