neurological health

Startup Aural Analytics raises $4.3M to monitor neurological health by analyzing speech patterns

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Aur­al Ana­lyt­ics rais­es $4.3M for voice-based cog­ni­tive health mon­i­tor­ing (Mobi­Health­News):

“Aur­al Ana­lyt­ics, a start­up using speech ana­lyt­ics algo­rithms to gauge changes in brain health, has raised $4.3 mil­lion in seed fund­ing … The arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence engine col­lects speech sam­ples through a smart­phone or tablet app, and uploads these to a cloud serv­er for analy­sis. From these, [Read more…] about Start­up Aur­al Ana­lyt­ics rais­es $4.3M to mon­i­tor neu­ro­log­i­cal health by ana­lyz­ing speech patterns

Connecting cardiological and neurological health: Key neurotech patent by Medtronic

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cardiac signals
– Illus­tra­tive image from U.S. Patent No. 8,209,009

Today we are shar­ing a fas­ci­nat­ing Medtron­ic patent com­bin­ing car­diac mon­i­tor­ing with brain stim­u­la­tion. (As men­tioned, we are fea­tur­ing foun­da­tion­al Per­va­sive Neu­rotech patents, from old­er to new­er by issue date)

U.S. Patent No. 8,209,009: Sys­tem and method for seg­ment­ing a car­diac sig­nal based on brain stimulation

  • Assignee(s): Medtron­ic, Inc.
  • Inventor(s): Jonathon E. Gif­takis, Nina M. Graves, Mark Turn­er Rise
  • Tech­nol­o­gy Cat­e­go­ry: Neuro-monitoring
  • Issue Date: June 26, 2012

SharpBrains’ Take:

This patent con­sid­ers the inter-rela­tion­ship and co-occur­rence of activ­i­ty between brain and heart. [Read more…] about Con­nect­ing car­di­o­log­i­cal and neu­ro­log­i­cal health: Key neu­rotech patent by Medtronic

The NIH Toolbox ‑First Comprehensive & Standardized Tests of Brain Function- To Be Released Next Week

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Neu­ro­science Just Got Faster, Cheap­er and Eas­i­er (press release):

“On Sept. 10 and 11, Ger­shon will intro­duce the new NIH Tool­box for Assess­ment of Behav­ioral and Neu­ro­log­i­cal Func­tion to hun­dreds of researchers at a spe­cial Nation­al Insti­tutes of Health (NIH) con­fer­ence in Bethes­da, Mary­land. At the end of Sep­tem­ber, the resource will be made ful­ly avail­able to the research com­mu­ni­ty and clin­i­cians. [Read more…] about The NIH Tool­box ‑First Com­pre­hen­sive & Stan­dard­ized Tests of Brain Func­tion- To Be Released Next Week