Mental health meets the digital revolution: Mindstrong Health raises $14 million to modernize the diagnosis and treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders via artificial intelligence (AI) and smartphones

By SharpBrains | June 19, 2017

— Mind­strong Health Rais­es $14 Mil­lion in Series‑A Fund­ing (press release): “Mind­strong Health, a start­up trans­form­ing the diag­no­sis and treat­ment of neu­ropsy­chi­atric dis­or­ders through the pow­er of AI and ubiq­ui­tous mobile tech­nol­o­gy, today announced that it has secured a $14 mil­lion round of Series‑A fund­ing. Led by Fore­site Cap­i­tal and ARCH Ven­ture Part­ners, the round…

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Augmenting physiotherapy via neurofeedback and neurostimulation: Key neurotechnology patent #43

By SharpBrains | April 25, 2017
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Today we are shar­ing a fas­ci­nat­ing patent from Medtron­ic.  (As men­tioned, we are fea­tur­ing 50 foun­da­tion­al Per­va­sive Neu­rotech patents, from old­er to new­er by issue date) U.S. Patent No. 8,121,694: Ther­a­py con­trol based on a patient move­ment state Assignee(s): Medtron­ic, Inc. Inventor(s): Gre­go­ry F. Mol­nar, Steven S. Gill, Kei­th A, Miesel, Mark S. Lent, Tim­o­thy J. Deni­son, Eric J.…

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Study debunks 4 common myths about brain training and lifelong cognitive enhancement

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 7, 2017

— If the media is your main source of infor­ma­tion about brain train­ing and cog­ni­tive enhance­ment, you will prob­a­bly believe the fol­low­ing: 1) All brain train­ing is the same… 2) …and it sim­ply does­n’t work. 3) Com­mer­cial brain train­ing pro­grams, espe­cial­ly, don’t work. 4) How could they work? Genet­ics is des­tiny, aging is a pre­de­ter­mined process…so by age 60…

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Next: Technology to enable patient-centered, collaborative behavioral health and chronic care management

By SharpBrains | October 15, 2015

. Tech Is Dri­ving Col­lab­o­ra­tion In Behav­ioral Health (TechCrunch): “Col­lab­o­ra­tion amongst providers is crit­i­cal in all aspects of med­i­cine, but nowhere is this more true than in behav­ioral health (men­tal health and sub­stance use dis­or­ders), where the costs of poor col­lab­o­ra­tion are sky-high…There is a moun­tain of evi­dence to sug­gest that 

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Technology as the missing link to enable a brain-based model of brain care: interview with Dr. John Docherty

By SharpBrains | July 20, 2010 |

Dr. John Docher­ty is an Adjunct Pro­fes­sor of Psy­chi­a­try at the Weill Med­ical Col­lege, Cor­nell Uni­ver­si­ty, Direc­tor of Post Grad­u­ate Edu­ca­tion there, and Chief Med­ical Offi­cer of Brain Resource. Trained as a clin­i­cal research fel­low in neu­ropsy­chophar­ma­col­o­gy at NIMH, he lat­er returned as Chief of the Psy­choso­cial Treat­ments Research Branch, respon­si­ble for all fed­er­al­ly supported…

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