Eight research teams working with DARPA to discover best ways to activate neuroplasticity and accelerate learning

By SharpBrains | May 12, 2017

DARPA Funds Brain-Stim­u­la­­tion Research to Speed Learn­ing (DoD news): “The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is work­ing with sev­en U.S. uni­ver­si­ties and ele­ments of the Air Force and Army on research that seeks to stim­u­late the brain in a non-inva­­sive way to speed up learn­ing. DARPA announced the Tar­get­ed Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty Train­ing, or TNT, program

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The leading-edge in brain stimulation and neuromodulation: Key Neurotech Patent #36

By SharpBrains | March 29, 2017
brain stimulation device

Today we dis­cuss a key brain stim­u­la­tion patent by Brain­lab AG. U.S. Patent No. 7,711,431: Method and device for stim­u­lat­ing the brain Assignee(s): Brain­lab AG Inventor(s): Philip Tan­ner, Thomas Bauch Tech­nol­o­gy Cat­e­go­ry: Tran­scra­nial Stim­u­la­tion Issue Date: May 4, 2010 Sharp­Brains’ Take: One of the fun­da­men­tal para­me­ters that must be deter­mined dur­ing brain stim­u­la­tion treat­ment is the quan­ti­ty or amount…

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Improving brain stimulation’s efficacy and efficiency: Key neurotechnology patent #32

By SharpBrains | March 20, 2017
neural stimulation efficiency

Today we high­light a key brain stim­u­la­tion patent assigned to Advanced Neu­ro­mod­u­la­tion Sys­tems. (As men­tioned, we are fea­tur­ing a foun­da­tion­al Per­va­sive Neu­rotech patent a day, from old­er to new­er by issue date) U.S. Patent No. 7,483,747: Sys­tems and meth­ods for enhanc­ing or affect­ing neur­al stim­u­la­tion effi­cien­cy and/or effi­ca­cy. Assignee(s): Advanced Neu­ro­mod­u­la­tion Sys­tems, Inc. Inventor(s): Brad­ford Evan Glin­er, Allen Wyler, Brad Fowler,…

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Too early? Brain stimulation device Thync fails to get traction in the minds of consumers

By SharpBrains | June 17, 2016

How Thync, Start­up Behind Brain-Zap­ping Gad­get, Almost Died (Bloomberg): “In 2014, Sil­i­con Val­ley start­up Thync had sold tech­nol­o­gy enthu­si­asts and ven­ture cap­i­tal­ists on the idea of strap­ping a device to your fore­head that sends elec­tric shocks to the brain. The wear­able gad­get gar­nered atten­tion for its futur­is­tic promis­es of brain stimulation, 

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DARPA launches Targeted Neuroplasticity Training program to accelerate cognitive skills training

By SharpBrains | March 21, 2016

Boost­ing Synap­tic Plas­tic­i­ty to Accel­er­ate Learn­ing (DARPA news): “The body’s branch­ing net­work of periph­er­al nerves con­nects neu­rons in the brain and spinal cord to organs, skin, and mus­cles, reg­u­lat­ing a host of bio­log­i­cal func­tions from diges­tion to sen­sa­tion to loco­mo­tion. But the periph­er­al ner­vous sys­tem can do even more than that…pushing those lim­its fur­ther, DARPA…

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Neosync ranked #30 Holder of Pervasive Neurotech Intellectual Property*

By SharpBrains | August 19, 2015 |

Neo­sync is an ear­ly stage com­pa­ny devel­op­ing a new treat­ment  for major depres­sion based on Tran­scra­nial Mag­net­ic Stim­u­la­tion (TMS). The treatment–named NEST (Neo­sync EEG Syn­chro­nized TMS) and under­go­ing clin­i­cal trials–is based on the idea that depres­sion patients tend to have over­ly rhyth­mic brain activity, 

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