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

— 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 

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

—– 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…

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

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 know what they are up to and why, via Sharp­Brains’ objec­tive and inde­pen­dent mar­ket reports. Which are avail­able at dis­count­ed price…

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

. 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,…

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Upcoming market report on Pervasive Neurotechnology

Just 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…

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