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

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.

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

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…

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

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…

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

__ 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

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

_____ 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: Brain scans shed light on the brain net­works sup­port­ing Awe For World Men­tal Health Day let’s review how a healthy…

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

_____ 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…

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