Improving driving safety with alarms triggered by impending sleep state, detected via brain signals: Key Neurotech Patent #11

By SharpBrains | February 13, 2017
sleep state alarm

As men­tioned, we are fea­tur­ing a foun­da­tion­al Per­va­sive Neu­rotech patent a day, from old­er to new­er by issue date. Today we are shar­ing a 2002 patent core to the field of dri­ving safe­ty. U.S. Patent No. 6,497,658: Alarm upon detec­tion of impend­ing sleep state Inventor(s): Michael F. Roizen, Lawrence J. Got­tlieb, Avery Tung Tech­nol­o­gy Cat­e­go­ry: EEG Issue Date: Decem­ber 24, 2002…

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7 Key Lessons from the 2011 SharpBrains Summit: Retooling Brain Health for the 21st Century

By Luc P. Beaudoin | April 21, 2011

Sharp­Brains served a high­ly thought-pro­­vok­ing and infor­ma­tive 2011 Vir­tu­al Sum­mit on Retool­ing Brain Health for the 21st Cen­tu­ry over 3 days, March 30th — April 1st. Here is a brief dis­til­la­tion of the large num­ber (40+) of pre­sen­ta­tions. 1.The range and vari­ety of pre­sen­ta­tions left no room for doubt that the dig­i­tal brain health market…

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Cognitive Tests Help Determine who can Drive Safely after a Stroke

By Dr. Pascale Michelon | March 7, 2011 |

The same way a brain fit­ness soft­ware pro­gram can help increase dri­ving safe­ty for old­er adults, sim­ple cog­ni­tive tests may help deter­mine whether a per­son can dri­ve safe­ly after a stroke. A recent study ana­lyzed 30 pre­vi­ous stud­ies in which the par­tic­i­pants’ dri­ving skills after a stroke were test­ed in an on-road eval­u­a­tion. 1,728 individuals…

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Announcement: USA Hockey takes gold at Brain Fitness Innovation Awards, Allstate & Nationwide Mutual Insurance runners-up

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 24, 2010 |

Please join us in con­grat­u­lat­ing USA Hock­ey, All­state, and Nation­wide, for reach­ing the podi­um of the 2010 Brain Fit­ness Inno­va­tion Awards, unveiled today. The podi­um’s top posi­tion went to USA Hock­ey Nation­al Team Devel­op­ment Pro­gram (NTDP), a full-time devel­op­ment pro­gram aimed at prepar­ing stu­­dent-ath­letes for par­tic­i­pa­tion on the US Nation­al Under-18 and Under-17 Teams, for…

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