Non-invasive Transcranial Electrical Stimulation (TES) shows early promise to treat ADHD symptoms in children

By Dr. David Rabiner | September 19, 2023

Many chil­dren with ADHD ben­e­fit from med­ica­tion treat­ment, behav­ioral treat­ment, or their com­bi­na­tion, but oth­ers do not. In addi­tion, par­ents are often reluc­tant to start their child on med­ica­tion and high qual­i­ty behav­ioral treat­ments are not read­i­ly acces­si­ble in many areas. The long-term effi­ca­cy of these treat­ments is also less than desir­able. Thus, despite these…

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Next: How to navigate transcranial electrical stimulation claims and devices

By SharpBrains | February 16, 2016

HALO CLAIMS TO MAKE YOU JUMP HIGHER, THINK FASTER, REMEMBER LONGER (Newsweek): “On the table in front of me in a New York hotel lob­by lies a gad­get from Halo Neu­ro­science that looks like a cross between high-end head­phones and a crown of thorns…Halo isn’t a crazy, out-of-the-blue break­through. It relies on tran­scra­nial elec­tri­cal stimulation…

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Next: NeuroGaming conference + ESCoNS Summit in San Francisco

By SharpBrains | April 27, 2015

. Heads-up about a great upcom­ing event. The Neu­roGam­ing 2015 Con­fer­ence and Expo on May 6–7 is the place where mind and body meet game play, where neu­rogame devel­op­ers share the lat­est emo­tion­al, cog­ni­tive, sen­so­ry and behav­ioral tech­nolo­gies to cre­ate com­pelling expe­ri­ences to engage and enter­tain gamers world­wide. New this year — ESCoNS Pre-con­fer­­ence Sum­mit, to…

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Upcoming event: NeuroGaming + ESCoNS Summit 2015 (May 5–7; San Francisco)

By SharpBrains | March 30, 2015

. Heads-up about a great upcom­ing event. The Neu­roGam­ing 2015 Con­fer­ence and Expo on May 6–7 is the place where mind and body meet game play, where neu­rogame devel­op­ers share the lat­est emo­tion­al, cog­ni­tive, sen­so­ry and behav­ioral tech­nolo­gies to cre­ate com­pelling expe­ri­ences to engage and enter­tain gamers world­wide. New this year — ESCoNS Pre-con­fer­­ence Sum­mit, to…

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Start-up Thync raises $13 million to market transcranial stimulation via consumer wearable

By SharpBrains | October 9, 2014

— Thync gets $13 mil­lion to send elec­tric cur­rents to your brain (SFGate): “Thync, a Los Gatos start­up, is work­ing on a wear­able that’s a lit­tle dif­fer­ent from most: it would send fine elec­tric cur­rents through the brain to alter users’ state of mind…some ven­ture cap­i­tal­ists are on-board with the unusu­al vision: on Wednes­day, it…

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