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Alto Neuroscience raises $60M (equity + credit) to help fix the “trial and error” approach to psychiatric medication

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Alto Neu­ro­science bags $25M for four Phase II drugs (End­points News):

Anoth­er $25 mil­lion is flow­ing the way of a Cal­i­for­nia biotech attempt­ing to fix the “tri­al and error” sys­tem in neu­ro­science drug R&D.

Alto Neu­ro­science picked up the cap­i­tal from Alpha Wave Ven­tures via an exten­sion to its Series B, bring­ing total equi­ty raised to $100 mil­lion since the startup’s 2019 found­ing. [Read more…] about Alto Neu­ro­science rais­es $60M (equi­ty + cred­it) to help fix the “tri­al and error” approach to psy­chi­atric medication

Precision psychiatry pioneer Alto Neuroscience raises $35M to advance digital biomarker-to-treatment platform

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Alto Neu­ro­science Rais­es $35M Series B Financ­ing (Fins­Mes):

Alto Neu­ro­science, a Los Altos, CA-based neu­ro-tech com­pa­ny which spe­cial­izes in pre­ci­sion psy­chi­a­try, rais­es $35M Series B Financ­ing … The com­pa­ny intends to use the funds to advance lead can­di­dates into Phase 2b stud­ies in major depres­sive dis­or­der … Pro­ceeds from the financ­ing will also be used to progress the company’s arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence-enabled brain bio­mark­er plat­form and launch new clin­i­cal tri­als in areas of high unmet med­ical need. Alto will report Phase 2a data in ear­ly 2023 and fur­ther antic­i­pates Phase 2b data read­outs by ear­ly 2024. [Read more…] about Pre­ci­sion psy­chi­a­try pio­neer Alto Neu­ro­science rais­es $35M to advance dig­i­tal bio­mark­er-to-treat­ment platform

Meta-analysis finds sustained benefits of neurofeedback for kids with ADHD

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In neu­ro­feed­back treat­ment for ADHD, indi­vid­u­als learn to alter their typ­i­cal pat­tern of brain­wave activ­i­ty, i.e., EEG activ­i­ty, to one that is con­sis­tent with a focused and atten­tive state.

This is done by col­lect­ing EEG data from indi­vid­u­als as they focus on stim­uli pre­sent­ed on a com­put­er screen. Their abil­i­ty to con­trol the stim­uli, e.g., keep­ing the smile on a smi­ley face keep­ing a video play­ing, depends on their main­tain­ing an EEG state that reflects focused attention.

Over time, most indi­vid­u­als bet­ter at this. Sup­port­ers of neu­ro­feed­back argue that learn­ing to alter EEG activ­i­ty and focus bet­ter dur­ing train­ing even­tu­al­ly gen­er­al­izes to real-world tasks that require strong atten­tion skills, e.g., read­ing, home­work, etc.

Although many experts remain skep­ti­cal of this approach, despite numer­ous sup­port­ive stud­ies, a recent­ly pub­lished meta-analy­sis of neu­ro­feed­back treat­ment pro­vides impor­tant new sup­port. [Read more…] about Meta-analy­sis finds sus­tained ben­e­fits of neu­ro­feed­back for kids with ADHD