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Neurotech start-up Paradromics raises $20M to address brain-related disorders via next-gen brain-computer interfaces

August 11, 2021 by SharpBrains

Neu­ralink Com­peti­tor Rais­es $20 Mil­lion for Brain Implants (Bloomberg):

A com­peti­tor to Elon Musk’s Neu­ralink said it raised $20 mil­lion, enough to get it on track to intro­duce a new gen­er­a­tion of pow­er­ful and tiny elec­trodes to the human brain.

Paradromics Inc., found­ed in 2015 about a year ahead of Neu­ralink, is build­ing brain-com­put­er inter­faces that could help peo­ple with dis­or­ders rang­ing from paral­y­sis to speech imped­i­ments. [Read more…] about Neu­rotech start-up Paradromics rais­es $20M to address brain-relat­ed dis­or­ders via next-gen brain-com­put­er interfaces

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Filed Under: Technology & Innovation Tagged With: brain implants, brain-machine interface, brain-related disorders, BrainGate, DARPA, electrodes, healthcare, microelectronics, Neuralink, neuroscience, Paradromics, Prime Movers Lab

Fast Forward to 2040: How to prepare for the new era in brain enhancement that will change the way we think, work, and heal

March 19, 2020 by Tan Le

Decades from now when our aug­ment­ed brains have enhanced our cog­ni­tive func­tion and trans­formed near­ly every aspect of our lives, many of us will look back and won­der why we didn’t do more to pre­pare for these inevitable changes. Gov­ern­ment lead­ers may grap­ple with the run­away effects of AI and brain enhance­ment on geopol­i­tics. Com­pa­nies that fail to incor­po­rate neu­rotech­nolo­gies and BCI into their oper­a­tional flow could lose sig­nif­i­cant mar­ket share and be forced to scram­ble in an attempt to regain a foothold in an indus­try they once dominated.

Work­ers who don’t heed the warn­ings to re-skill or upskill may find them­selves out of a job as entire indus­tries dis­ap­pear. Grad­u­at­ing col­lege stu­dents may dis­cov­er their field of study is no longer rel­e­vant in the busi­ness world, leav­ing them unpre­pared for the chang­ing job mar­ket. Tech inno­va­tors could be caught up in fierce com­pe­ti­tion to snap up employ­ees from a very lim­it­ed tal­ent pool, dri­ving up the cost of inno­va­tion and ham­per­ing its devel­op­ment. And every­day cit­i­zens may be wrestling with the unex­pect­ed con­se­quences of unin­ten­tion­al­ly giv­ing away the rights to their neur­al data.

Rest assured, it doesn’t have to be this way. [Read more…] about Fast For­ward to 2040: How to pre­pare for the new era in brain enhance­ment that will change the way we think, work, and heal

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Peak Performance, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Adam Gazzaley, AI, book, brain, brain-enhancement, brainpower, cognitive, cognitive-function, Ed Boyden, Education & Lifelong Learning, enhance the brain, Fourth Industrial Revolution, heal, healthcare, human-brain, insurance, memory-boosting, Mindstrong, neuro-data, NeuroGeneration, neurotechnologies, Neurotechnology, non-invasive neurotechnologies, non-invasive neurotechnology, policymakers, retraining, STEAM, think, Tom Insel, WEF Future of Jobs, work

Mindstrong Health recruits slew of Silicon Valley talent

December 12, 2019 by SharpBrains

– Mind­strong Health is apply­ing machine learn­ing meth­ods on human-smart­phone inter­ac­tions to iden­ti­fy dig­i­tal phe­no­typ­ing fea­tures that could be clin­i­cal­ly useful.

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Mind­strong Health Expands Exec­u­tive Team to Advance Tech­nol­o­gy for New Vir­tu­al Men­tal Health Care Mod­el (press release):

“Mind­strong Health, a health­care inno­va­tion com­pa­ny ded­i­cat­ed to trans­form­ing men­tal health through inno­va­tions in dig­i­tal mea­sure­ment and vir­tu­al care mod­els, today announced the addi­tion of ten senior exec­u­tives to its lead­er­ship team includ­ing CEO Daniel Graf, who joined the com­pa­ny in Octo­ber 2019.”

On top of Mr. Graf, Mind­strong Health has also recruit­ed: [Read more…] about Mind­strong Health recruits slew of Sil­i­con Val­ley talent

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: digital markers, digital phenotyping, healthcare, healthcare innovation, innovation, machine-learning, Mindstrong Health, virtual care

December 5–6th in Dublin: 2nd European Annual Virtual Reality and Healthcare Symposium

December 3, 2019 by SharpBrains

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Just a heads-up about a great event lat­er this week in Dublin, Ire­land, for those work­ing on vir­tu­al and aug­ment­ed real­i­ty and health­care innovation.

When: Thu Dec 5, 2019 8:00 am — Fri Dec 6, 2019 5:00 pm.

Where: Dav­en­port Hotel

Featured sessions include:

[Read more…] about Decem­ber 5–6th in Dublin: 2nd Euro­pean Annu­al Vir­tu­al Real­i­ty and Health­care Symposium

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: augmented reality, Dublin, healthcare, healthcare innovation, innovation, virtual-reality

Apple/ Eli Lilly’s bet: Wearable and mobile consumer devices may well help us detect cognitive impairment and dementia

September 16, 2019 by SharpBrains

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Apple, Eli Lil­ly research whether devices can detect demen­tia signs (Health­care Dive):

“Demen­tia, which affects rough­ly 47 mil­lion peo­ple across the globe, costs $1 tril­lion world­wide, accord­ing to the World Health Orga­ni­za­tion. Ear­ly test­ing for the con­di­tion is spo­radic and, when con­duct­ed, it’s often not sen­si­tive enough to detect ear­ly stages of men­tal decline, cre­at­ing an oppor­tu­ni­ty for tech com­pa­nies like Apple to see whether they can turn a profit.

The “rich, lon­gi­tu­di­nal infor­ma­tion” from wear­able and mobile con­sumer devices can be [Read more…] about Apple/ Eli Lilly’s bet: Wear­able and mobile con­sumer devices may well help us detect cog­ni­tive impair­ment and dementia

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Alzheimers-disease, Apple, behavioral, cognitive decline, dementia, Eli Lilly, Evidation, healthcare, HIPAA, mental-decline, mild-cognitive-impairment, physiological

Update: 200 common prescription medications increase depression risk

June 28, 2018 by SharpBrains

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Dear read­er,

Time for Sharp­Brains e‑newsletter.

It’s been a busy month, once again bring­ing to the fore­front the lim­i­ta­tions of our cur­rent health­care sys­tem and, on the pos­i­tive side, the grow­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties to improve Brain Health and Men­tal Health for all, if we pay atten­tion to (and act on) lat­est research, think­ing and tools.

New research:

  • When Health­care ignores Men­tal Health: 200 com­mon pre­scrip­tion med­ica­tions increase depres­sion risk
  • Report finds only 35% of Cana­di­an youth get the phys­i­cal activ­i­ty rec­om­mend­ed for brain health
  • Study finds train­ing-induced neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty even in patients with chron­ic trau­mat­ic brain injury (TBI)

New thinking:

  • Want to feel more Calm, get some Head­space, and prac­tice Mind­ful­ness Daily?
  • (Slid­edeck) Why the Future of Brain Enhance­ment and Men­tal Health is Dig­i­tal and Pervasive
  • Study finds the lim­its of putting one­self in another’s shoes (instead, ask and listen)

New tools:

  • Sleep-focused neu­rotech firm Dreem rais­es $35M from John­son&John­son Inno­va­tion and Bpifrance
  • FDA clears Mind­Maze GO neu­rore­ha­bil­i­ta­tion plat­form, eas­ing access to con­tin­ued out­pa­tient therapy
  • From Angry Birds to brain map­ping: The Gam­i­fi­ca­tion of Neuroscience

 

Final­ly, we invite you to tease your mind with these four opti­cal illu­sions. Sur­pris­ing, aren’t they?

Have a great month of July,

 

The Sharp­Brains Team

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: brain-enhancement, Brain-health, Brain-Plasticity, Calm, depression risk, Dreem, FDA, gamification, Headspace, healthcare, Mental-Health, mind-teasers, MindMaze, neuroplascitiy, neuroscience, optical-illusions, Physical-activity, prescription medications, sleep, TBI

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