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Thync

On Brain Awareness Week, mental health innovation, tDCS, biofeedback, psychedelics, and more

February 26, 2021 by SharpBrains

Wel­come to a new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains’ e‑newsletter, start­ing with some ideas to get in the mood for Brain Aware­ness Week next month (March 15–21st). May BAW 2021 be a hun­dred times more upbeat than last year’s…

#1. Sev­en brain teasers and a neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty pod­cast to cel­e­brate Brain Aware­ness Week 2021

#2. Imag­ine what this capa­bil­i­ty may mean just a few years from now. Should/ will Google alert Gmail users about their (future) cog­ni­tive sta­tus? Study: Arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence pro­gram iden­ti­fies lin­guis­tic mark­ers that pre­dict, with 70% accu­ra­cy, who gets Alzheimer’s Dis­ease years later

#3. Sim­i­lar to what hap­pened to Thync back in 2016, Halo Neu­ro­science strug­gled to com­mer­cial­ize tDCS as a non-med­ical device and the tech­nol­o­gy is being repur­posed for clin­i­cal use. Neu­ro­mod­u­la­tion devel­op­er Halo Neu­ro­science clos­es its doors; Flow Neu­ro­science acquires assets

#4. Here you have a cou­ple recent meta-analy­ses sug­gest­ing a grow­ing adop­tion in the near future of web-based, and increas­ing­ly per­son­al­ized, inter­ven­tions. Grow­ing research points to expand­ing adop­tion of online cog­ni­tive behav­ioral ther­a­pies, both guid­ed and unguided

#5. “If there is any­thing we’ve seen out of this year, it’s real­ly become that fourth pil­lar of ben­e­fits for every employ­er out there. Every­one has med­ical, den­tal and vision. Men­tal health has now real­ly become that fourth pil­lar of ben­e­fits for all employ­ers.” — Alyson Wat­son, CEO and founder of Mod­ern Health. Four trends accel­er­at­ing men­tal health inno­va­tion in the COVID/ post-COVID era

#6. “Access to men­tal health­care is a human right that shouldn’t be buried by stig­ma, lack of access, or afford­abil­i­ty.” — Oliv­er Har­ri­son, CEO of Koa Health. Dig­i­tal men­tal health start-up Koa Health rais­es €30M to accel­er­ate growth in Europe and the US

#7. “Just as the viral pan­dem­ic has accel­er­at­ed vac­cine devel­op­ment, this glob­al cri­sis has brought togeth­er men­tal health experts from the pub­lic and pri­vate sec­tor around the world to address what is sure­ly a sec­ond pan­dem­ic trig­gered by loss, anx­i­ety, and social iso­la­tion” — Thomas Insel, MD, co-founder of Human­est Care. Sur­vey finds con­cerns AND hope to address grow­ing men­tal health needs due to the covid pandemic

#8. Can biofeed­back-based videogames help chil­dren bet­ter man­age stress? Mag­el­lan Health and Might­i­er secure $2 mil­lion NIMH grant to investigate

#9. “The Organ­i­sa­tion for the Review of Care and Health Apps (ORCHA) has reviewed almost 600 men­tal health apps … only 29.6% meet qual­i­ty thresh­olds” The land­scape of dig­i­tal men­tal health apps: huge unmet needs, qual­i­ty con­cerns, app stores asked to ensure transparency

#10. Final­ly, an idea out there worth explor­ing … Next: Psy­che­del­ic-assist­ed psychotherapy?

Have a healthy and stim­u­lat­ing month of March,

The Sharp­Brains Team

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, SharpBrains Monthly eNewsletter, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: behavioral, biofeedback, Brain Teasers, cognitive, Halo Neuroscience, Humanest Care, Koa Health, mental healthcare, Mightier, Modern Health, neuroplasticity, psychedelics, Psychotherapy, tDCS, therapies, Thync

Trend: Consumers experiment with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) with no regulatory oversight

January 17, 2017 by SharpBrains

-- DIY tDCS device: Four 9-volt batteries and sticky self-adhesive electrodes, connected by a circuit board. Courtesy of Matt Herich
– DIY tDCS device: Four 9‑volt bat­ter­ies and sticky self-adhe­sive elec­trodes, con­nect­ed by a cir­cuit board. Cour­tesy of Matt Herich

Stu­dents Zap Their Brains For a Boost, For Bet­ter Or Worse (NPR):

“Last Octo­ber, Matt Herich was lis­ten­ing to the news while he drove door to door deliv­er­ing piz­zas. A sto­ry came on the radio about a tech­nol­o­gy that sends an elec­tric cur­rent through your brain to pos­si­bly make you bet­ter at [Read more…] about Trend: Con­sumers exper­i­ment with tran­scra­nial direct cur­rent stim­u­la­tion (tDCS) with no reg­u­la­to­ry oversight

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Filed Under: Technology & Innovation Tagged With: ActivaDose, brain, brain-stimulation, electrical current, Foc.us, Halo, neurostimulation, Neurotechnology, tDCS, Thync, Transcranial-direct-current-stimulation

Too early? Brain stimulation device Thync fails to get traction in the minds of consumers

June 17, 2016 by SharpBrains

thync-vibes-wellnessHow Thync, Start­up Behind Brain-Zap­ping Gad­get, Almost Died (Bloomberg):

“In 2014, Sil­i­con Val­ley start­up Thync had sold tech­nol­o­gy enthu­si­asts and ven­ture cap­i­tal­ists on the idea of strap­ping a device to your fore­head that sends elec­tric shocks to the brain. The wear­able gad­get gar­nered atten­tion for its futur­is­tic promis­es of brain stim­u­la­tion, [Read more…] about Too ear­ly? Brain stim­u­la­tion device Thync fails to get trac­tion in the minds of consumers

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Peak Performance, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: brain, brain-stimulation, consumer, electrical brain stimulation, gadget, mind, neuromodulation, Silicon-Valley, tDCS, Thync, ultrasound brain-stimulation, wearable

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

November 10, 2015 by Alvaro Fernandez

BrainComputerInterface.

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

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

Unclear yet if it works, but here comes Thync–the first mainstream, consumer-focused brain stimulation device

June 3, 2015 by SharpBrains

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Hands-On With Thync’s Mood-Alter­ing Head­set (Techcrunch):

“Thync is launch­ing its mood-alter­ing head­set today, let­ting you find a state of calm or boost your ener­gy with con­trols on your smartphone.

…Once you begin, you can dial the inten­si­ty of the expe­ri­ence up or down [Read more…] about Unclear yet if it works, but here comes Thync–the first main­stream, con­sumer-focused brain stim­u­la­tion device

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Peak Performance, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: brain-stimulation, electricity, smartphone, Thync

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