Posts Tagged ‘noninvasive neurotechnology’
Beacon Biosignals raises $27M to scale EEG, AI-based neurobiomarker discovery platform
Neurotech startup Beacon Biosignals scores $27M to bring AI to EEG analysis (MedCity News): Electroencephalography is a decades-old technique for capturing brain activity, data that are used to evaluate brain disorders. Beacon Biosignals is applying artificial intelligence to these tests, and the neurotechnology startup has found a ready market in pharmaceutical companies interested in assessing how…
Read MoreDARPA-funded nonsurgical neurotechnologies push the frontier of brain-machine interfaces
Rice University Charges Into the Future with Magnetics and Bioimplants (All About Circuits): Advances in self-generating drug delivery systems, brain-to-brain communication, and injury mitigation technologies are just some of the newest research coming down the pipeline from Rice University. Several research projects funded by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA) N3 program might herald…
Read MoreUpdate: Repetitive negative thinking may increase (or perhaps be caused by) Alzheimer’s pathology
Time for a new edition of SharpBrains’ e‑newsletter, featuring this month 13 research findings, resources and brain teasers for lifelong brain and mental health. #1. “We found that people who exhibited higher repetitive negative thinking patterns experienced more cognitive decline over a four-year period. They also had specific declines in memory (which is an early sign…
Read MoreExplore The State of Noninvasive Neurotechnology in 37 minutes and 1 image
? Heads-up: The recordings for the webinar on The State of Noninvasive Neurotechnology, held on May 19th, are already available on YouTube. Dr. Ricardo Gil-da-Costa (above) and Alvaro Fernandez (below) gave an excellent outlook on the brain tech industry, with a deep look into apps and wearables and the capabilities that human brain could achieve.…
Read MoreReinventing depression treatment via transcranial magnetic brain stimulation (TMS)
___ Stanford researchers devise treatment that relieved depression in 90% of participants in small study (press release): “A new form of magnetic brain stimulation rapidly relieved symptoms of severe depression in 90% of participants in a small study conducted by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine … In transcranial magnetic stimulation, electric currents…
Read MoreMcLean Hospital Corp: #16 Holder of Pervasive Neurotech Intellectual Property*
McLean Hospital is the third oldest psychiatric hospital in the United States and is affiliated with Harvard Medical School. McLean’s research efforts in neuroscience and psychiatry span 66 laboratories and nearly 400 research staff — it claims to have the largest research program of any private psychiatric hospital.
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