Machine learning study finds standardized brain scan biomarker to detect depression with 66% accuracy

New Study Brings Bio­mark­ers For Depres­sion Clos­er To The Clin­ic (Forbes): Sci­en­tists have been study­ing bio­log­i­cal signs of depres­sion in the brain, look­ing for mark­ers that could be used to iden­ti­fy the dis­or­der. A team of sci­en­tists recent­ly devel­oped a tech­nique using machine learn­ing that can iden­ti­fy whether a giv­en patien­t’s brain scan shows one…

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Alphabet’s X shares Amber EEG system to expand the quest for mental health biomarkers

Alphabet’s X details Project Amber, a quest for a sin­gle bio­mark­er for depres­sion that fell short of its goal (TechCrunch): Alphabet’s X (the Google-owner’s so-called “Moon­shot Fac­to­ry”) pub­lished a new blog post today about Project Amber, a project it’s been work­ing on over the past three years — the results of which it’s now making…

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What will the ‘Peloton for mental health’ look like five years from now? And, who will develop it?

Mind­Labs rais­es £1.4M for its new plat­form, a ‘Pelo­ton for men­tal health’ (TechCrunch): Ide­al­ly, men­tal well­ness should be con­sid­ered part of a healthy dai­ly rou­tine, like exer­cise. But even exer­cise is dif­fi­cult to turn into a reg­u­lar habit. Pelo­ton addressed phys­i­cal fit­ness by com­bin­ing smart sta­tion­ary bikes with live class­es and com­mu­ni­ty fea­tures to create…

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Portable brain assessment device by Headsafe secures 510(k) FDA clearance

__ FDA Clears Nurocheck, Portable Device to Quick­ly Assess Brain Health (MS News Today): “A portable device that can quick­ly mea­sure elec­tri­cal activ­i­ty in the brain and relay it to doc­tors via a smart­phone app, called the Nurochek sys­tem, has been cleared by the Unit­ed States Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion (FDA) for use as a medical…

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Machine-learning study finds EEG brain signatures that predict response to antidepressant treatments

– Brain-wave pat­tern can iden­ti­fy peo­ple like­ly to respond to anti­de­pres­sant, study finds (Stan­ford Med­i­cine press release): “A new method of inter­pret­ing brain activ­i­ty could poten­tial­ly be used in clin­ics to help deter­mine the best treat­ment options for depres­sion, accord­ing to a study led by researchers at the Stan­ford School of Med­i­cine. Stan­ford researchers and…

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U.S. Army develops novel way to analyze brain imaging data and shape emerging non-invasive neurotechnology

Army devel­ops big data approach to neu­ro­science (press release): “A big data approach to neu­ro­science promis­es to sig­nif­i­cant­ly improve our under­stand­ing of the rela­tion­ship between brain activ­i­ty and per­for­mance. To date, there have been rel­a­tive­ly few attempts to use a big-data approach with­in the emerg­ing field of neurotechnology. 

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