From digital therapeutics to personalized mental health solutions: Pear Therapeutics expands platform via partnerships with Empatica, etectRx, KeyWise, and Winterlight

Pear Ther­a­peu­tics Expands Plat­form with Dig­i­tal Bio­mark­ers, Machine Learn­ing Algo­rithms and Sen­­sor-Based Tech­nolo­gies (press release): Pear Ther­a­peu­tics, Inc. announced today that it has entered into agree­ments with mul­ti­ple tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­nies, includ­ing Empat­i­ca Inc., etec­tRx, Inc., and Key­Wise, Inc. The new tech­nolo­gies com­ple­ment the voice-based bio­mark­ers pre­vi­ous­ly licensed from Win­terlight Labs. These new agree­ments bol­ster Pear’s…

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Startup Aural Analytics raises $4.3M to monitor neurological health by analyzing speech patterns

Aur­al Ana­lyt­ics rais­es $4.3M for voice-based cog­ni­tive health mon­i­tor­ing (Mobi­Health­News): “Aur­al Ana­lyt­ics, a start­up using speech ana­lyt­ics algo­rithms to gauge changes in brain health, has raised $4.3 mil­lion in seed fund­ing … The arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence engine col­lects speech sam­ples through a smart­phone or tablet app, and uploads these to a cloud serv­er for analy­sis. From these, 

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Coming soon: Assessing your mental health while you talk on a phone, type on a keyboard, or scroll through a website

___ Tech Watch­es You for Dig­i­tal Symp­toms of Brain Dis­or­ders (IEEE Spec­trum): The med­ical pro­fes­sion­als tasked with car­ing for our minds don’t have an easy job. To diag­nose peo­ple with neu­ropsy­chi­atric dis­eases, doc­tors can per­form brain scans, but such scans are expen­sive and the results are some­times inscrutable. The oth­er options include con­duct­ing time-­con­­sum­ing cognitive…

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