Otsuka Precision Health Inc. and Click Therapeutics Inc. pondered the signature question of cognitive behavioral therapy when setting the market approach for their jointly developed prescription digital therapeutic for major depressive disorder, Rejoyn.

In what represents the first patenting to emerge in the assignee’s name, additional protection is being sought for Rapidpulse Inc.’s aspiration system, which delivers high-frequency pulsed vacuum forces to increase the efficiency of aspiration thrombectomy and remove thrombus from the neurovasculature.

Seoul, South Korea-based Adel Inc. raised ₩17 billion (US$12.39 million) in bridge financing to advance its pipeline of Alzheimer’s disease therapies, including its tau antibody-based ADEL-Y01 candidate, currently in a U.S.-based phase I study.

Sunbird Bio Inc.’s Neural EV-tau aggregate assay demonstrated 92% correlation with PET scans in identifying individuals with Alzheimer’s disease, a study presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Philadelphia, on July 30 found.

C2N Diagnostics LLC’s two-factor blood test, Precivity AD2, showed 90% accuracy in diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease in a study presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Philadelphia on July 28 and simultaneously published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The following day, Quanterix Corp. presented results from its study that showed a multi-marker approach could maintain the 90% accuracy of its Lucentad test, while reducing the percentage of uncertain results from more than 30% to 10%, in line with the intermediate results demonstrated by Precivity.

Emvision Medical Devices Ltd. unveiled a portable brain scanning helmet for first responders to quickly identify whether a patient is experiencing a stroke and, if so, what type.

In what represents the first patenting to emerge from Braincapture ApS, its chief executive officer, Tue Lehn-Schiøler, describes the development of a low-cost, portable electroencephalogram device designed to enhance neurological diagnostics in underserved communities around the world.

In just the second PCT filing published in the name of Newmanbrain SL, co-founders Carlos Belmonte and Joaquin Ibañez seek specific protection for the use of Newmanbrain’s functional near infrared spectroscopy system, Theia, in the diagnosis of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

Researchers from the University of Southern California filed for protection of a thin film electrode array they developed to be implanted using endovascular methods for minimally invasive, high-resolution electrical recording and stimulation of the nervous system and other electrogenic tissue.

Beyond its success in migraine and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Nu Eyne Co. Ltd. is advancing a portfolio of noninvasive, wearable trigeminal nerve stimulation devices across key three areas of neuromodulation, tissue regeneration and proliferation inhibition.