Coming soon: Assessing your mental health while you talk on a phone, type on a keyboard, or scroll through a website

By SharpBrains | May 4, 2018

___ Tech Watch­es You for Dig­i­tal Symp­toms of Brain Dis­or­ders (IEEE Spec­trum): The med­ical pro­fes­sion­als tasked with car­ing for our minds don’t have an easy job. To diag­nose peo­ple with neu­ropsy­chi­atric dis­eases, doc­tors can per­form brain scans, but such scans are expen­sive and the results are some­times inscrutable. The oth­er options include con­duct­ing time-­con­­sum­ing cognitive…

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Jan Samzelius, CEO of Brainnovations Winner NeuraMetrix, encourages pioneers to focus on “simple, elegant solutions to big problems”

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 9, 2018

What sur­prised you the most from the Judges’ ques­tions and feed­back dur­ing the Brain­no­va­tions Pitch Con­test last month? Even with only a brief pre­sen­ta­tion the judges imme­di­ate­ly got the poten­tial impact of our tech­nol­o­gy to mea­sure and mon­i­tor brain health and began to think about oth­er appli­ca­tions for us – sev­er­al we had not thought about. That…

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Savonix, HealthTech Connex, NeuraMetrix: Top Brainnovations to measure Brain Health & Performance

By SharpBrains | December 29, 2017

 Top Brain­no­va­tion to mea­sure Brain Health & Per­for­mance (record­ing requires reg­is­tra­tion; view slid­edecks above or Here). The three Final­ists were: Savonix– pitch by Greg Wong, VP Prod­uct Man­age­ment HealthTech Con­nex – pitch by Dr. Ryan D’Arcy, Pres­i­dent & Chief Sci­en­tif­ic Offi­cer Neu­raMetrix (WINNER) – pitch by Jan Samzelius, Co-Founder & CEO Judged by: Dr. Adam Haim, Chief of the Small Busi­ness Inno­va­tion Research (SBIR) and Small Busi­ness Tech­nol­o­gy Trans­fer (STTR) Pro­grams at the National…

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Congrats Brainnovations Winners: NeuraMetrix, AUGMENTx, Sapien Labs, and The Touchpoint Solution

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 7, 2017

Proud to announce the Win­ners of the Brainnova­tions Pitch Con­test that took place yes­ter­day dur­ing the 2017 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit. But first of all, thank you very much to every one of the 12 Final­ists and the 16 Judges and every­one in the audi­ence — what a fas­ci­nat­ing dis­cus­sion and learn­ing expe­ri­ence for every­one involved! And…

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Explore new ways to measure Brain Health & Performance @ 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (December 5–7th)

By SharpBrains | November 27, 2017

_____ Kick­start­ed with a keynote by scientist/ pol­i­­cy-mak­er/ entre­pre­neur Dr. Tom Insel,  the 2017 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Decem­ber 5–7th) will host a Brainnova­tions Pitch Con­test to dis­cuss the lat­est tech­nolo­gies for Brain Health & Enhance­ment. 12 select­ed star­tups will get to pitch their inno­v­a­tive approach and solu­tions to our dis­tin­guished Judges –our very own “Sharp Tank”– and…

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14 new Speakers, including Rutger’s April Benasich and EMOTIV’s Olivier Oullier, at the 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (December 5–7th)

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 15, 2017

Proud to announce excel­lent addi­tions to the stel­lar Speak­er Ros­ter at the upcom­ing 2017 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: Brain Health & Enhance­ment in the Dig­i­tal Age (Decem­ber 5–7th). As direc­tor of the Infan­cy Stud­ies Lab­o­ra­to­ry at the Rut­gers Cen­ter for Mol­e­c­u­lar and Behav­ioral Neu­ro­science,  Dr. April Bena­sich’s research focus­es on brain devel­op­ment in infan­cy and early…

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