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May e‑newsletter: MIT Solve launches Brain Health Challenge, asking “How can every person improve their brain health and mental resilience?”

May 25, 2017 by SharpBrains

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Time for Sharp­Brains’ May e‑newsletter, high­light­ing what’s new in brain health and men­tal per­for­mance, and fea­tur­ing a very rel­e­vant MIT ini­tia­tive and a thought-pro­vok­ing study on the “Cog­ni­tive Divide.”

New thinking

  • MIT Solve launch­es Brain Health Chal­lenge: How can every per­son improve their brain health and men­tal resilience?
  • Men­tal Health Inno­va­tion and Dr. Tom Insel: from the NIMH to Google/ Ver­i­ly Life Sci­ences to Start­up Mindstrong
  • Five rea­sons the future of brain enhance­ment is dig­i­tal, per­va­sive and (hope­ful­ly) bright (relat­ed slides here)
  • Eight research teams work­ing with DARPA to dis­cov­er best ways to acti­vate neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty and accel­er­ate learning
  • Researchers pro­pose four “neu­ror­ights” to har­ness neu­rotech­nol­o­gy for good: cog­ni­tive lib­er­ty, men­tal pri­va­cy, men­tal integri­ty, and psy­cho­log­i­cal continuity

 

New research

  • Is moder­ni­ty lead­ing to a grow­ing Cog­ni­tive Divide?
  • Phys­i­cal­ly-active video games (‘exergames’) boost cog­ni­tion more than phys­i­cal activ­i­ty alone
  • Com­mon med­ica­tion treat­ments for PTSD can increase the risk of devel­op­ing dementia
  • Study iden­ti­fies brain cir­cuits enabling four-year-olds to “put them­selves in oth­er people’s shoes”

 

New tools

  • Want a music sys­tem that lifts you up when you’re feel­ing down? Meet this audio head­set with bio-sig­nal sen­sors (Neu­roSky patent)
  • Eval­u­at­ing neur­al respons­es via EEG brain data in vir­tu­al real­i­ty envi­ron­ments (Nielsen patent)
  • Con­nect­ing car­di­o­log­i­cal and neu­ro­log­i­cal health (Medtron­ic patent)
  • Start-up Aira rais­es $12M, show­ing the way for cog­ni­tive sci­ence and arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence (AI) to improve the lives of blind and low vision individuals

 

Have a great month of June and, for those based in the US, a great Memo­r­i­al Day weekend,

 

The Sharp­Brains Team

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, SharpBrains Monthly eNewsletter, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Aira, artificial intelligence, Brain Health Challenge, brain-enhancement, Brain-health, cognitive-performance, DARPA, digital, Jazz Ventures, Learning, Medtronic, mental resilience, mental-performance, Mindstrong, MIT, MIT Solve, neuroplasticity, neurorights, NeuroSky, Nielsen, NIMH, Tom Insel

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

Report: We are at the dawn of the Pervasive Neurotechnology age — witness the work by Nielsen, Microsoft, Posit Science, Jawbone, Accenture, NeuroSky, Medtronic, GE and more

March 22, 2016 by Zack Lynch

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– Source: Per­va­sive Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy — A Ground­break­ing Analy­sis of 10,000+ Patent Fil­ings Trans­form­ing Med­i­cine, Health, Enter­tain­ment and Business

We are at the dawn of the per­va­sive neu­rotech­nol­o­gy age, when our every­day tech­nolo­gies inter­face with the user’s brain and mind, when devel­op­ers big and small har­ness the lat­est emo­tion­al, cog­ni­tive, sen­so­ry and behav­ioral tech­nolo­gies to cre­ate rad­i­cal­ly new expe­ri­ences to engage con­sumers and pro­fes­sion­als world­wide. [Read more…] about Report: We are at the dawn of the Per­va­sive Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy age — wit­ness the work by Nielsen, Microsoft, Posit Sci­ence, Jaw­bone, Accen­ture, Neu­roSky, Medtron­ic, GE and more

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Peak Performance, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Accenture, brain, General Electric, intellectual property, Jawbone, Medtronic, Microsoft, mind, NeuroSky, Neurotechnology, Nielsen, patents, pervasive, Pervasive Neurotechnology, 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 Webinar: The Digital Revolution Meets the Human Brain

June 16, 2015 by SharpBrains

webinar_neurotechJoin this upcom­ing webi­nar to dis­cuss the key take-aways from the new mar­ket report Per­va­sive Neu­rotech­nol­ogy: A Ground­break­ing Analy­sis of 10,000+ Patent Fil­ings Trans­form­ing Med­i­cine, Health, Enter­tain­ment and Busi­ness.


 

When: Tues­day, June 30th, 1–2pm US East­ern Time

  • 1–1.20pm ET: Five Key Trends Dri­ving Neu­rotech­nol­ogy to Become Pervasive
  • 1.20–1.40pm ET: How Nielsen, Advanced Neu­ro­mod­u­la­tion Sys­tems, Medtron­ic, Microsoft and Brain­lab emerged as lead­ing IP Holders
  • 1.40–2pm ET: Q&A

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Advanced Neu­ro­mod­u­la­tion Sys­tems, Brain­lab, digital revolution, human-brain, Medtronic, Microsoft, neu­rotech­nol­ogy, Nielsen, patents, per­va­sive, webinar

Good news: The Digital Revolution meets the Human Brain (as evidenced by the explosion of neurotech patent filings)

June 9, 2015 by Alvaro Fernandez

PatentExample_neurotechOur brain is at the core of every­thing we do, from the every-day deci­sions we make to the epic emo­tions we feel when we fall in love. Giv­en its vital role in our lives, it is great news that two of the most well-fund­ed research pro­grams in the world focus on the brain sci­ences: [Read more…] about Good news: The Dig­i­tal Rev­o­lu­tion meets the Human Brain (as evi­denced by the explo­sion of neu­rotech patent filings)

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: digital revolution, human-brain, IBM, intellectual property, Khosla Ventures, Microsoft, Neurotechnology, Nielsen, non-invasive, Novartis, patent filings, patents, pervasive, Thync, Walter Isaacson

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