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UCSF, Stanford, VieLight & Lumos Labs at the frontier of brain health & enhancement

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On Decem­ber 7th select­ed Sum­mit Spon­sors and Part­ners show­cased their most promis­ing brain health & enhance­ment ini­tia­tives and solutions.

At the fron­tier with Neu­roscape, VR/ AR and Pho­to­bio­mod­u­la­tion (record­ings require reg­is­tra­tion; view slid­edeck for all am ses­sions Here)

  • Adam Gaz­za­ley, UCSF Pro­fes­sor of Neu­rol­o­gy, presents Neu­roscape
  • Dr. Wal­ter Green­leaf, Med­ical VR/ AR Expert at Stan­ford Vir­tu­al Human Inter­ac­tion Lab, pro­vides an overview of health appli­ca­tions of vir­tu­al & aug­ment­ed real­i­ty (VR/AR)
  • Dr. Lew Lim, Founder & CEO of Vielight, dis­cuss­es pho­to­bio­mod­u­la­tion as a new way to enhance brain function

Dr. Bob Schafer, Direc­tor of Research at Lumos Labs, presents their expand­ing vision for brain train­ing, includ­ing mindfulness.

Slid­edeck sup­port­ing ses­sion held dur­ing the 2017 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: Brain Health & Enhance­ment in the Dig­i­tal Age (Decem­ber 5–7th). All ses­sion record­ings avail­able for pur­chase (50+ Speak­ers, 15+ Hours, $150).

Remote computer-implemented methods for cognitive testing: Key Neurotech Patent #4

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– Illus­tra­tive image from U.S. Patent No. 6,280,198

Today we are fea­tur­ing a 2001 patent orig­i­nal­ly assigned to Sci­en­tif­ic Learn­ing Corp, and now to Lumos Labs Inc. (As men­tioned, we are fea­tur­ing a foun­da­tion­al Per­va­sive Neu­rotech patent a day, from old­er to new­er by issue date)

U.S. Patent No. 6,280,198: Remote com­put­er imple­ment­ed meth­ods for cog­ni­tive testing

  • Assignee(s): Sci­en­tif­ic Learn­ing Corp; Lumos Labs Inc.
  • Inventor(s): Bar­bara Cal­houn, Bret E. Peter­son, Michael M. Merzenich
  • Tech­nol­o­gy Cat­e­go­ry: Neu­roCog­ni­tive Training
  • Issue Date: August 28, 2001

SharpBrains’ Take:

The ‘198 patent describes tech­niques for improv­ing the fre­quen­cy and reg­u­lar­i­ty at which an indi­vid­ual can take cog­ni­tive tests. [Read more…] about Remote com­put­er-imple­ment­ed meth­ods for cog­ni­tive test­ing: Key Neu­rotech Patent #4

Final 24 hours to access leading, independent market research on digital brain health & neurotechnology at discounted price

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“The future is already here – it’s just not even­ly dis­trib­uted” — writer and futur­ist William Gibson

If you work at, com­pete with, or learn from, any of the com­pa­nies below, you may want to PervasiveNeurotech_3Dcover_widgetknow what they are up to and why, via Sharp­Brains’ objec­tive and inde­pen­dent mar­ket reports. Which are avail­able at dis­count­ed price until the end of tomor­row Thurs­day, March 31st.

1) Neu­rotech report & Info­graph­ic: Per­va­sive Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy: A Ground­break­ing Analy­sis of 10,000+ Patent Fil­ings Trans­form­ing Med­i­cine, Health, Enter­tain­ment and Business

Lead­ing non-inva­sive neu­rotech patent hold­ers (*Detailed IP port­fo­lio pro­file includ­ed with­in report): [Read more…] about Final 24 hours to access lead­ing, inde­pen­dent mar­ket research on dig­i­tal brain health & neu­rotech­nol­o­gy at dis­count­ed price

Under new CEO, Lumosity to expand brain training platform with focus on applied skills and broader social, wellness factors

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lumosityLumosity’s Stum­ble Reveals How We Think About Think­ing (Buz­zFeed News):

“The ads were per­va­sive, pop­ping up on CNN, Fox News, NPR, and Google search­es. And they were per­sua­sive: Play­ing Lumos­i­ty games would do your brain good…But these claims sound­ed a lit­tle too rosy to the Fed­er­al Trade Com­mis­sion, which [Read more…] about Under new CEO, Lumos­i­ty to expand brain train­ing plat­form with focus on applied skills and broad­er social, well­ness factors

Akili Interactive Labs raises $30.5 million to develop FDA-approved brain training videogame for ADHD

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Videogame Mak­er Seeks to Treat ADHD (The Wall Street Journal):

“Doc­tors don’t usu­al­ly pre­scribe videogame play. But one com­pa­ny, which has just raised $30.5 mil­lion from ven­ture-cap­i­tal investors, hopes to change that.

Boston-based Akili Inter­ac­tive Labs Inc. is devel­op­ing a videogame it believes could replace pills as a treat­ment for atten­tion-deficit hyper­ac­tiv­i­ty dis­or­der. [Read more…] about Akili Inter­ac­tive Labs rais­es $30.5 mil­lion to devel­op FDA-approved brain train­ing videogame for ADHD

Lumos Labs (maker of Lumosity) pays $2 million to settle FTC deceptive advertising charges

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Exterior of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in Washington, D.C.

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Lumos­i­ty must pay $2 mil­lion after “unfound­ed” brain game claims (Fast Company):

“The mak­er of brain game app Lumos­i­ty has agreed to pay $2 mil­lion to set­tle charges brought by the Fed­er­al Trade Com­mis­sion, which alleged it deceived con­sumers about the product’s brain-train­ing benefits.

The FTC said Tues­day that Lumos­i­ty made “unfound­ed claims” that its games could help users do bet­ter at work and school and help reduce the effects of con­di­tions includ­ing [Read more…] about Lumos Labs (mak­er of Lumos­i­ty) pays $2 mil­lion to set­tle FTC decep­tive adver­tis­ing charges