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Brain stimulation using magnetic fields: Key Neurotech Patent #12

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Magnetic-field-stimulation
– Illus­tra­tive image from U.S. Patent No. 6,572,528

Today we are dis­cussing a 2003 patent, assigned to McLean Hos­pi­tal, pio­neer­ing brain stim­u­la­tion techniques.

U.S. Patent No. 6,572,528: Mag­net­ic field stim­u­la­tion techniques

  • Assignee(s): McLean Hospital
  • Inventor(s): Michael L. Rohan, Aimee Par­row, Per­ry F. Renshaw
  • Tech­nol­o­gy Cat­e­go­ry: Hybrid
  • Issue Date: June 3, 2003

SharpBrains’ Take:

The ‘528 patent dis­clos­es mag­net­ic stim­u­la­tion tech­niques for enhanc­ing brain func­tion with a vari­ety of stim­u­la­tion tech­niques. [Read more…] about Brain stim­u­la­tion using mag­net­ic fields: Key Neu­rotech Patent #12

Personalize brain health and enhancement combining new imaging methods and human/ artificial intelligence

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What kind of one-time or ongo­ing brain assess­ments can help pin­point indi­vid­ual needs, and what role will intel­li­gent assis­tants, human coach­es and experts play in offer­ing and sup­port­ing per­son­al­ized care?

  • Chair: Nikhil Sri­ra­man, IP Ana­lyst at SharpBrains
  • Mar­garet Moore, Co-Founder of the Insti­tute of Coach­ing at McLean Hospital
  • Ruth Poli­akine Baruchi, CEO of MyndYou
  • Ron Ober­leit­ner, CEO of Behav­ior Imag­ing Solutions

These pre­sen­ta­tions took place at the 2016 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: Rein­vent­ing Brain Health in the Dig­i­tal Age (Decem­ber 6–8th, 2016).

ANNOUNCEMENT: Initial Speakers for 2016 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (Dec. 6–8th) — Reinventing Brain Health in the Digital Age

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2016sharpbrainssummit_logoWe’re thrilled to announce the first round of speak­ers at the upcom­ing 2016 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Decem­ber 6–8th). More to come…stay tuned! (and reg­is­ter soon to ben­e­fit from ear­ly-bird rates)

We can’t wait to dis­cuss the lat­est work and insights from…

  • Dr. Ali­son Fen­ney, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of the Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy Indus­try Orga­ni­za­tion
  • Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, CEO of Sharp­Brains
  • Dr. Bob Bilder, Chief of Med­ical Psy­chol­o­gy & Neu­ropsy­chol­o­gy at UCLA
  • Dr. Bri­an Iacoviel­lo, Direc­tor of Sci­en­tif­ic Affairs at Click Ther­a­peu­tics
  • Char­lie Hartwell, Oper­at­ing Part­ner at The Bridge Builders Collaborative
  • Derek Luke, CEO of Inter­aX­on
  • Dr. Eddie Mar­tuc­ci, CEO of Akili Inter­ac­tive Labs
  • Dr. Eliz­a­beth Zelin­s­ki, Direc­tor of the Cen­ter for Dig­i­tal Aging at the Davis School of Gerontology
  • Jes­si­ca Poulin, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of the Arrow­smith Program
  • Dr. Ken­neth Kosik, Co-Direc­tor of the Neu­ro­science Research Insti­tute at UC-San­ta Barbara
  • Mar­garet Moore, Co-Founder of the Insti­tute of Coach­ing at McLean Hospital
  • Michael Meagher, Pres­i­dent of Cog­nic­i­ti
  • Dr. Peter White­house, Pro­fes­sor of Neu­rol­o­gy at Case West­ern Reserve University
  • Rita Carter, Sci­ence writer and BBC Con­trib­u­tor
  • Ruth Poli­akine Baruchi, CEO of Myn­dY­ou
  • Dr. Sarah Banks, Head of Neu­ropsy­chol­o­gy at the Cleve­land Clin­ic Lou Ruvo Cen­ter for Brain Health
  • Dr. Tej Tadi, CEO of Mind­Maze

Update: Neuroscience 2.0 — Taking the brain lab to the people

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Time for Sharp­Brains’ July e‑newsletter, wrap­ping up this month’s key brain-relat­ed news and insights.

First of all, a reminder to Save the Date for 2015 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Novem­ber 17–19th), where lead­ing experts will dis­cuss Mon­i­tor­ing & Enhanc­ing Brain Health in the Per­va­sive Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy Era (to reg­is­ter with 10% dis­count, use this code: sharp2015).

New tools:

New research:

More on Pervasive Neurotechnologies:

Final­ly, we are proud to wel­come “Fit­ness mózgu” — The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness, now in Polish!

Have a great month of August