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NeuroPace

For invasive cognitive enhancement to work, firms will need to validate both the “neuro” and the “tech”

June 9, 2017 by SharpBrains

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A Hard­ware Update for the Human Brain (The Wall Street Journal):

“The field that gave Emi­ly her life back is known as neu­rotech­nol­o­gy, or sim­ply neurotech—a mar­riage of neu­rol­o­gy, neu­ro­science, neu­ro­surgery and the kind of hard­ware that goes into smart­phones. Today, most neu­rotech com­pa­nies are focused on med­ical appli­ca­tions, which [Read more…] about For inva­sive cog­ni­tive enhance­ment to work, firms will need to val­i­date both the “neu­ro” and the “tech”

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Boston Scientific, brain, cognitive-enhancement, DARPA, hardware, human-brain, medical, Medtronic, neurology, NeuroPace, neuroscience, neurosurgery, neurotech, Neurotechnology, Stryker

Monitoring neurological activity to detect epileptic seizures: Key Neurotech Patent #9

February 9, 2017 by SharpBrains

– Illus­tra­tive image from U.S. Patent No. 6,473,639

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Today we are shar­ing a 2002 patent assigned to Neu­ropace, Inc. (As men­tioned, we are fea­tur­ing a foun­da­tion­al Per­va­sive Neu­rotech patent a day, from old­er to new­er by issue date)

U.S. Patent No. 6,473,639: Neu­ro­log­i­cal event detec­tion pro­ce­dure using processed dis­play chan­nel based algo­rithms and devices incor­po­rat­ing these procedures.

  • Assignee(s): Neu­ropace, Inc.
  • Inventor(s): David R. Fis­chell, Jonathan Har­wood, Ben­jamin D. Pless
  • Tech­nol­o­gy Cat­e­go­ry: Neuro-monitoring
  • Issue Date: Octo­ber 29, 2002

SharpBrains’ Take:

The ‘639 patent dis­clos­es tech­niques for detect­ing neu­ro­log­i­cal activ­i­ty, name­ly the occur­rence of an epilep­tic seizure based on algo­rith­mic pro­cess­ing of sig­nals mea­sur­ing brain activ­i­ty. [Read more…] about Mon­i­tor­ing neu­ro­log­i­cal activ­i­ty to detect epilep­tic seizures: Key Neu­rotech Patent #9

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: brain data, brain electrodes, brain signals, channel based algorithms, EEG, electrodes, epileptic, epileptic seizures, neuro-monitoring, neuro-technology, neurological event detection, NeuroPace, patent, seizures

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

March 30, 2016 by SharpBrains

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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

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Accenture, Advanced Neuromodulation Systems, BodyMedia, Brain-health, Brain-Resource, Brainlab, CogState, digital health, Emotiv, General Electric, Jawbone, lumos-labs, market intelligence, market-research, Medtronic, Microsoft, NASDAQ:MSFT, Neuronetics, NeuroPace, NeuroSky, Neurotechnology, Nielsen, NYSE: STJ, NYSE:ACN, NYSE:GE, NYSE:MDT, NYSE:NLSN, Posit-Science

10 Non-invasive Neurotechnologies About to Transform Brain Enhancement and Brain Health

November 10, 2015 by Alvaro Fernandez

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30,000+ sci­en­tists and pro­fes­sion­als gath­ered for the annu­al Soci­ety for Neu­ro­science con­fer­ence in Chica­go last month, prov­ing the grow­ing inter­est and activ­i­ties to bet­ter under­stand the inner work­ings of the human brain, and to dis­cov­er ways and tech­nolo­gies to enhance its health and performance.

Now, which of all those ongo­ing efforts are clos­er to touch­ing our lives, to empow­er con­sumers, patients and health pro­fes­sion­als? [Read more…] about 10 Non-inva­sive Neu­rotech­nolo­gies About to Trans­form Brain Enhance­ment and Brain Health

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Peak Performance, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Accenture, Advanced Brain Monitoring, Applied-Cognitive-Engineering, AT&T, big data, BodyMedia, Brain-Computer Interfaces, brain-enhancement, Brain-health, brain-stimulation, Brainlab, CNS Response, digital health, digital neurotechnology, Emotiv, Freer Logic, intellectual property, Interaxon, Jawbone, lumos-labs, Medtronic, Microsoft, neuromonitoring, Neuronetics, NeuroPace, neurotechnologies, Neurotechnology, Nielsen, non-invasive neurotechnology, patents, Phillips, Posit-Science, St. Jude Medical, Thync, US-Army, virtual-reality

Upcoming market report on Pervasive Neurotechnology

March 2, 2015 by Alvaro Fernandez

market reportJust a quick heads-up to the Sharp­Brains com­mu­ni­ty: we are wrap­ping up a com­pre­hen­sive mar­ket report on Per­va­sive Neu­rotech­nolo­gies (non-inva­sive, scal­able, poten­tial­ly ubiq­ui­tous). To learn when it becomes avail­able, keep tuned via our e‑Newsletter.

See below, in alpha­bet­i­cal order, a few of the orga­ni­za­tions to be pro­filed in the report, giv­en their rel­e­vant intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty port­fo­lios (pri­mar­i­ly patents). [Read more…] about Upcom­ing mar­ket report on Per­va­sive Neurotechnology

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Accenture, Advanced Brain Monitoring, Advanced Neuromodulation Systems, BodyMedia, Brainlab, CNS Response, cognifit, CompuMedics, General Electric, Health Hero Network, IBM, intellectual property, Invention Science Fund, Lifewatch Tech, lumos-labs, market-report, McLean Hospital Corp, Medtronic, Microsoft, Natus Medical, Neosync, Neuronetics, NeuroPace, NeuroSky, Neurotechnology, New York University, non-invasive, patents, pervasive, Pervasive Neurotechnology, Philips, Posit-Science, Scientific-Learning, Sedline, Stanford-University, The Nielsen Company, ubiquitous

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