From “Eminence-based” to Evidence-based cognitive & mental healthcare: Time for quality and accountability

By SharpBrains | March 31, 2022

Wel­come to a new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains’ e‑newsletter, fea­tur­ing time­ly brain & men­tal health news, two excel­lent new books and a few fun brain teasers. #1. From “Emi­­nence-based” to Evi­­dence-based men­tal health­care: Time to focus on qual­i­ty and account­abil­i­ty “The real chal­lenge is not find­ing a ther­a­pist, it’s find­ing a ther­a­pist who knows how to provide…

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Cumulus Neuroscience raises $8.3M to develop EEG-based wireless ‘Fitbit for the brain’

By SharpBrains | May 5, 2021

Belfast-based Cumu­lus rais­es €6.9m for its ‘Fit­bit for the brain’ (The Irish Times): … For­mer­ly known as Brain­Wave­Bank, the com­pa­ny has devel­oped a wire­less elec­troen­cephalo­gram (EEG) head­set and pro­pri­etary soft­ware plat­form that use advanced ana­lyt­ics and machine learn­ing to mea­sure cog­ni­tive fit­ness. “This fund­ing will allow us to build on the ground-break­ing advances we have made…

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From digital therapeutics to personalized mental health solutions: Pear Therapeutics expands platform via partnerships with Empatica, etectRx, KeyWise, and Winterlight

By SharpBrains | April 7, 2021

Pear Ther­a­peu­tics Expands Plat­form with Dig­i­tal Bio­mark­ers, Machine Learn­ing Algo­rithms and Sen­­sor-Based Tech­nolo­gies (press release): Pear Ther­a­peu­tics, Inc. announced today that it has entered into agree­ments with mul­ti­ple tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­nies, includ­ing Empat­i­ca Inc., etec­tRx, Inc., and Key­Wise, Inc. The new tech­nolo­gies com­ple­ment the voice-based bio­mark­ers pre­vi­ous­ly licensed from Win­terlight Labs. These new agree­ments bol­ster Pear’s…

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The new frontier in neurocognitive monitoring and dementia screening: the Apple Watch

By SharpBrains | January 12, 2021

Bio­gen to Launch Pio­neer­ing Study to Devel­op Dig­i­tal Bio­mark­ers of Cog­ni­tive Health Using Apple Watch and iPhone (press release): Bio­gen Inc. (Nas­daq: BIIB) today announced a new vir­tu­al research study, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Apple, to inves­ti­gate the role Apple Watch and iPhone could play in mon­i­tor­ing cog­ni­tive per­for­mance and screen­ing for decline in cog­ni­tive health…

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Mindstrong Health raises $100M to transform how we measure and promote mental health

By SharpBrains | May 26, 2020

Mind­strong scores $100M to mon­i­tor well­ness via smart­phone behav­iors (Mobi­Health News): This morn­ing dig­i­tal men­tal health plat­form Mind­strong scored a whop­ping $100 mil­lion in Series C fund­ing. While Mind­strong has a his­to­ry of sol­id fund­ing rounds, this amount will more than dou­ble its total fund­ing. In 2017 it got its first $14 mil­lion cash infusion.…

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A call to action: We need the right incentives to guide ethical innovation in neurotech and healthcare

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 24, 2019

_______________ Ana Maiques, CEO and founder of neu­rotech com­pa­ny Neu­ro­electrics, writes up a com­pelling case in her recent arti­cle, sum­ma­rized thus: “I strong­ly believe that Neu­rotech entre­pre­neurs can not afford not to be involved in neu­roethics. It is sim­ply not an option any­more.” I share that belief and would like to take it one step further:…

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