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Click Therapeutics raises $30 million in debt to advance commercialization of smoking cessation app Clickotine

December 4, 2020 by SharpBrains

Click Ther­a­peu­tics Secures $30M in Growth Cap­i­tal from K2 HealthVen­tures to Expand Oper­a­tions (press release):

Click Ther­a­peu­tics, Inc. (“Click”), a leader in Dig­i­tal Ther­a­peu­tics™ solu­tions as pre­scrip­tion med­ical treat­ments, today announced $30 mil­lion in debt financ­ing from K2 HealthVen­tures (K2HV), a health­care-focused spe­cial­ty finance com­pa­ny, to accel­er­ate com­mer­cial­iza­tion of its lead­ing smok­ing ces­sa­tion solu­tion, Click­o­tine™, and to advance its pipeline of clin­i­cal­ly-val­i­dat­ed dig­i­tal ther­a­peu­tics [Read more…] about Click Ther­a­peu­tics rais­es $30 mil­lion in debt to advance com­mer­cial­iza­tion of smok­ing ces­sa­tion app Clickotine

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Click Therapeutics, Clickotine, digital therapeutics, K2 HealthVentures, medical treatments, neurotechnologies, non-invasive neurotechnologies, prescription

Studies identify key ethical concerns raised by invasive and non-invasive neurotechnologies

November 23, 2020 by SharpBrains

Stud­ies out­line key eth­i­cal ques­tions sur­round­ing brain-com­put­er inter­face tech (NCSU release):

Brain-com­put­er inter­face (BCI) tech­nolo­gies are no longer hypo­thet­i­cal, yet there are fun­da­men­tal aspects of the tech­nol­o­gy that remain unad­dressed by both ethi­cists and pol­i­cy-mak­ers. Two new papers address these issues by out­lin­ing the out­stand­ing eth­i­cal issues, offer­ing guid­ance for address­ing those issues, and offer­ing par­tic­u­lar insight into the field of BCI tech for cog­ni­tive enhance­ment. [Read more…] about Stud­ies iden­ti­fy key eth­i­cal con­cerns raised by inva­sive and non-inva­sive neurotechnologies

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Filed Under: Peak Performance, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: BCI, brain-computer interface, cognitive, cognitive-enhancement, ethics, Neuroethics, Neurotechnology, non-invasive neurotechnologies, non-invasive neurotechnology

Tuesday April 28th, online: Explore strategies and tools to boost mental wellbeing during (and after) Covid-19

April 23, 2020 by SharpBrains

Heads-up about a very time­ly vir­tu­al event next week.

When: Tues­day, April 28th, 9am — 6pm US Pacif­ic Time (San Fran­cis­co time zone)

Where: Online

What: Find Well­be­ing Dur­ing Covid19 — Dis­cov­er 200+ Free and Dis­count­ed Tools to help you find some relief and emerge even stronger

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[Read more…] about Tues­day April 28th, online: Explore strate­gies and tools to boost men­tal well­be­ing dur­ing (and after) Covid-19

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Covid19, mental health, mental hygiene, mental wellbeing, neurotechnologies, neurotechnologiy, non-invasive neurotech, non-invasive neurotechnologies, wellbeing

Fast Forward to 2040: How to prepare for the new era in brain enhancement that will change the way we think, work, and heal

March 19, 2020 by Tan Le

Decades from now when our aug­ment­ed brains have enhanced our cog­ni­tive func­tion and trans­formed near­ly every aspect of our lives, many of us will look back and won­der why we didn’t do more to pre­pare for these inevitable changes. Gov­ern­ment lead­ers may grap­ple with the run­away effects of AI and brain enhance­ment on geopol­i­tics. Com­pa­nies that fail to incor­po­rate neu­rotech­nolo­gies and BCI into their oper­a­tional flow could lose sig­nif­i­cant mar­ket share and be forced to scram­ble in an attempt to regain a foothold in an indus­try they once dominated.

Work­ers who don’t heed the warn­ings to re-skill or upskill may find them­selves out of a job as entire indus­tries dis­ap­pear. Grad­u­at­ing col­lege stu­dents may dis­cov­er their field of study is no longer rel­e­vant in the busi­ness world, leav­ing them unpre­pared for the chang­ing job mar­ket. Tech inno­va­tors could be caught up in fierce com­pe­ti­tion to snap up employ­ees from a very lim­it­ed tal­ent pool, dri­ving up the cost of inno­va­tion and ham­per­ing its devel­op­ment. And every­day cit­i­zens may be wrestling with the unex­pect­ed con­se­quences of unin­ten­tion­al­ly giv­ing away the rights to their neur­al data.

Rest assured, it doesn’t have to be this way. [Read more…] about Fast For­ward to 2040: How to pre­pare for the new era in brain enhance­ment that will change the way we think, work, and heal

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Peak Performance, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Adam Gazzaley, AI, book, brain, brain-enhancement, brainpower, cognitive, cognitive-function, Ed Boyden, Education & Lifelong Learning, enhance the brain, Fourth Industrial Revolution, heal, healthcare, human-brain, insurance, memory-boosting, Mindstrong, neuro-data, NeuroGeneration, neurotechnologies, Neurotechnology, non-invasive neurotechnologies, non-invasive neurotechnology, policymakers, retraining, STEAM, think, Tom Insel, WEF Future of Jobs, work

Will digital therapeutics complement or replace stimulant medications to address inattention and “silent” cognitive issues?

January 29, 2020 by SharpBrains

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Akili Inter­ac­tive: Dig­i­tal pedi­atric ADHD ther­a­peu­tic per­forms well with or with­out accom­pa­ny­ing stim­u­lant ther­a­py (Mobi­Health News):

“Dig­i­tal ther­a­peu­tic com­pa­ny Akili Inter­ac­tive has announced the first results of an open-label, mul­ti­site pedi­atric ADHD tri­al pro­vid­ing some patients with the company’s video game-like treat­ment along­side a stim­u­lant medication.

Accord­ing to the com­pa­ny, both those who received the AKL-T01 ther­a­py with (n = 130) or with­out (n = 76) accom­pa­ny­ing stim­u­lant med­ica­tion saw sig­nif­i­cant improve­ments one month after [Read more…] about Will dig­i­tal ther­a­peu­tics com­ple­ment or replace stim­u­lant med­ica­tions to address inat­ten­tion and “silent” cog­ni­tive issues?

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Filed Under: Attention & ADD/ADHD, Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: adhd, ADHD trial, ADHD-medication, Akili Interactive, AKL-T01, cognitive, cognitive issues, digital therapeutic, FDA clearance, non-invasive neurotechnologies, non-invasive neurotechnology, stimulant medication, video game-like treatment

Neurotech seen at CES 2020: BrainCo prosthetic hand, Urgonight, Alpha-Stim X, NIRSIT Lite, Muse S and FocusFit

January 22, 2020 by SharpBrains

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Brain tech is here: These gad­gets from CES 2020 rely on your brain­waves to work (CNET):

“The futur­is­tic promise of tech devices that use brain waves to improve sleep, anx­i­ety and con­cen­tra­tion — and even con­trol pros­thet­ic hands — may final­ly be com­ing to fruition, with a slew of new prod­ucts on dis­play at CES 2020 in Las Vegas. Brain tech holds great poten­tial for help­ing us under­stand and con­trol our minds from the com­fort of our homes, but sci­ence still has a long way to go.

Here are some of the coolest brain tech prod­ucts we saw at CES 2020. Some of these prod­ucts are already on the mar­ket, while some are only pro­to­types.” Con­tin­ue read­ing over at CNET

News in Context:

  • Ten neu­rotech­nolo­gies about to trans­form brain enhance­ment & health
  • Five rea­sons the future of brain enhance­ment is dig­i­tal, per­va­sive and (hope­ful­ly) bright
  • A call to action: We need the right incen­tives to guide eth­i­cal inno­va­tion in neu­rotech and healthcare

Top Brain­no­va­tions to mon­i­tor and improve Brain Health from Sharp­Brains

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Filed Under: Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Alpha-Stim X, BrainCo prosthetic hand, brainwaves, CES 2020, FocusFit, Muse S, neurotech, NIRSIT Lite, non-invasive neurotechnologies, non-invasive neurotechnology, Urgonight

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