digital brain health

Reminder: UT-Dallas BrainHealth presents virtual talks with Alvaro Fernandez (this Thursday, April 21st) and Sanjay Gupta (next Tuesday, April 26th)

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Each month, some of the most fas­ci­nat­ing speak­ers par­tic­i­pate in inter­ac­tive con­ver­sa­tions about the lat­est advances in brain health sci­ence, tech­nol­o­gy and real-world application.

All talks are vir­tu­al and free of charge. Reg­is­ter for the sea­son and attend as many talks as you like. [Read more…] about Reminder: UT-Dal­las Brain­Health presents vir­tu­al talks with Alvaro Fer­nan­dez (this Thurs­day, April 21st) and San­jay Gup­ta (next Tues­day, April 26th)

UT-Dallas BrainHealth presents virtual talks with Alvaro Fernandez and Sanjay Gupta next month

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Each month, the most fas­ci­nat­ing speak­ers par­tic­i­pate in inter­ac­tive con­ver­sa­tions about the lat­est advances in brain health sci­ence, tech­nol­o­gy and real-world application.

All talks are vir­tu­al and free of charge. Reg­is­ter for the sea­son and attend as many talks as you like.

» Learn More & Reg­is­ter HERE

NAVIGATING THE DIGITAL BRAIN HEALTH MARKET
with Alvaro Fernandez

April 21, 2022 | 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT

Mr. Fer­nan­dez, named a Young Glob­al Leader, runs Sharp­Brains, an inde­pen­dent mar­ket research firm track­ing applied neu­ro­science will present the lat­est trends in dig­i­tal brain health and soci­ety’s march toward per­va­sive neurotechnology.

He is the edi­tor-in-chief of sem­i­nal mar­ket reports on Per­va­sive Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy and Dig­i­tal Brain Health, and co-author of the books The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness and El Cere­bro Que Cura.

KEEP SHARP
with San­jay Gup­ta, MD

April 26, 2022 | 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT

San­jay Gup­ta – neu­ro­sur­geon, med­ical reporter and author – is a lead­ing voice on health, well­ness and active liv­ing, and a trust­ed resource for expert advice on how to stay healthy and safe dur­ing the COVID-19 pandemic.

As the coun­try’s pre­mier nar­ra­tor of health, he makes impor­tant sci­en­tif­ic devel­op­ments relat­able. He will share insights from his recent NY Times best-sell­er Keep Sharp: Build a Bet­ter Brain at Any Age.

Wearable EEG monitoring start-up Epitel raises $12.5M to market seizure detection system

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Epi­tel rais­es $12.5M for wear­able seizure detec­tion sys­tem (Mobi­Health News):

Epi­tel, mak­er of a wear­able elec­troen­cephalo­gram (EEG) sys­tem for seizure detec­tion, announced Wednes­day it had scored $12.5 mil­lion in Series A funding.

The round was led by Cat­a­lyst Health Ven­tures (CHV) and Genoa Ven­tures, with par­tic­i­pa­tion from Dex­com, OSF Ven­tures, Wave­mak­er 360, Med­Moun­tain Ven­tures and Salt Lake City Angels … The com­pa­ny’s first prod­uct, the REMI sys­tem, con­sists of a wear­able, wire­less EEG sen­sor that’s applied below the hair­line, and soft­ware for providers to review data and mon­i­tor for seizures. The sen­sor can con­tin­u­ous­ly mon­i­tor patients for 48 hours. [Read more…] about Wear­able EEG mon­i­tor­ing start-up Epi­tel rais­es $12.5M to mar­ket seizure detec­tion system

Digital health start-ups raised a record $3.1 billion in Q1; focus will likely evolve from providers to consumers and employers

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Dig­i­tal health firms raised record sums before Covid-19 hit (Med­C­i­ty News):

“Dig­i­tal Health star­tups raised a record-break­ing $3.1 bil­lion in the first quar­ter of 2020, accord­ing to a report released Mon­day by Rock Health. But now faced with a glob­al pan­dem­ic, the trend is unlike­ly to con­tin­ue [Read more…] about Dig­i­tal health start-ups raised a record $3.1 bil­lion in Q1; focus will like­ly evolve from providers to con­sumers and employers

On Awe, Healthy Eating, Mental Health, Ethical Neurotech, and more

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Time to wrap-up anoth­er very active month with our Sharp­Brains e‑newsletter sum­ma­riz­ing excit­ing devel­op­ments in brain research, health­care and tech­nol­o­gy — plus a cou­ple fun brain teasers to spark curios­i­ty and innovation 🙂

New brain research:

New thinking about brain & mental health:

Emerging neurotech and digital brain health:

Finally, a couple fun brain teasers:

 

Have a excel­lent Halloween…

 

The Sharp­Brains Team

Trend: Consumers spend significantly more on digital brain health and neurotechnology apps

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Peo­ple spent $1.9 bil­lion last year on apps to keep their brains sharp as they age — here’s what actu­al­ly works (Mar­ket­Watch):

“With an aging pop­u­la­tion wor­ried about cog­ni­tive decline and demen­tia, such train­ing pro­grams have seen a burst in pop­u­lar­i­ty in recent years. Con­sumers spent an esti­mat­ed $1.9 bil­lion on dig­i­tal brain health and neu­rotech­nol­o­gy apps in 2018, a four­fold increase from $475 mil­lion in 2012, accord­ing to glob­al data from Sharp­Brains, an inde­pen­dent mar­ket-research firm.

But despite the ris­ing inter­est in cog­ni­tive train­ing, evi­dence of its ben­e­fits is still a mixed bag, experts say. [Read more…] about Trend: Con­sumers spend sig­nif­i­cant­ly more on dig­i­tal brain health and neu­rotech­nol­o­gy apps