First-ever Pervasive Neurotechnology Report finds 10,000+ Patent Filings Transforming Medicine, Entertainment and Business

– Nielsen, Advanced Neu­ro­mod­u­la­tion Sys­tems, Medtron­ic, Microsoft and Brain­lab emerge as lead­ing IP hold­ers . San Fran­cis­co, CA– (May 6, 2015) – Sharp­Brains, the lead­ing mar­ket research firm track­ing applied neu­ro­science, unveiled today–at the 2015 Neu­roGam­ing Summit–a new 206-page report that, for the first time, ana­lyzes the major intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty trends in the Per­va­sive Neurotechnology…

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The next in wearables: Harnessing EEG for “the masses” to track and enhance mind fitness

— Is mind­ful­ness and less stress worth $299? The Muse makes a case (review) (Ven­ture Beat): “The most inter­est­ing wear­able I’ve used yet isn’t a fit­ness track­er or a super­flu­ous smart­watch. It’s a con­nect­ed head­band that helps you focus your thoughts… To put it sim­ply, the Muse brings elec­troen­cephalog­ra­phy (EEG) tech­nol­o­gy, which detects brain activ­i­ty, to…

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Monitoring EEG Brain Activity to Personalize Memory Training

San­dia shows mon­i­tor­ing brain activ­i­ty dur­ing study can help pre­dict test per­for­mance (press release): “The team mon­i­tored test sub­jects’ brain activ­i­ty while they stud­ied word lists, then used the EEG (elec­troen­cephalog­ra­phy) to pre­dict who would remem­ber the most infor­ma­tion. Because

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The value of neuroimaging techniques (and what those squiggly lines mean)

The media reg­u­lar­ly reports on find­ings based on neu­roimag­ing stud­ies, but rarely do they explain exact­ly what these tech­niques are, their ben­e­fits or what it’s like to actu­al­ly par­tic­i­pate in these types of stud­ies. Today I’ll describe what a par­tic­i­pant goes through when they vol­un­teer for a cog­ni­tive neu­ro­science exper­i­ment using a neu­roimag­ing tech­nique called…

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