The human body constantly assaults medical devices that are implanted within it. The traditional solution to that has been to encase them in titanium. But that’s not the best option in the brain, where it remains difficult to place a high number of electrodes without damaging the brain, while protecting the device from long-term damage.
Albuquerque, N.M.-based Sandia Labs received a $6 million grant from the NIH to build a prototype for a wearable brain scanner. The noninvasive functional brain imaging system will use optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs) to conduct more accurate magnetoencephalography (MEG), while improving accuracy, increasing comfort, reducing imaging costs, and enabling use in more patients.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in neurology, including: NIH trial screening data links high amyloid levels with early stage Alzheimer's; Optical imaging technology developed for the brain; Using TMS to treat adults with autism and depression.
Digital mental health startup Silvercloud Health Inc. has scooped up $16 million in a series B round led by Memorialcare Innovation Fund. The Boston-based company plans to use the funds to grow program offerings in North America, enhance its global portfolio and conduct new research and clinical trials. LRV Ventures, OSF Ventures and Unitypoint Health Ventures also participated in the round, along with existing investors Act Venture Capital and B Capital Group. With this latest round, Silvercloud has raised a total of $30 million.
To better tap into the potential of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), Stanford University researchers developed a high-dose, precision-targeted protocol known as Stanford Accelerated Intelligent Neuromodulation Therapy (SAINT).
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in neurology, including: Engineers 3D print brain implants; Minimal phenotyping gives minimal insights into MDD genetics; Optogenetic plaque model traces neurodegeneration in AD; Once repulsive, always repulsive.
Pear Therapeutics Inc. obtained FDA approval for Somryst, the first prescription digital therapeutic for chronic insomnia. The app provides structured cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) with clinical dashboards for physicians. While CBT is the recommended first-line therapy for insomnia, the U.S. has only 500 therapists certified to provide CBT for insomnia (CBTi) for the estimated 30 million Americans who suffer from chronic difficulty going to and staying asleep.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in neurology, including: Using AI for neonatal brain image segmentation; New imaging method sheds light on AD; Investigation of inherited mutations in ASD.
Despite seeing good growth in 2019, with net sales jumping to almost $2.4 million vs. $993,000 over the previous year, Electrocore Inc. has suspended its guidance due to uncertainty over COVID-19. The company previously said full-year revenue should be in the range of $7 million to $9 million.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in neurology, including: ‘Natural killer’ cells could halt PD progression; Neuroinflammation linked to several forms of dementia; GOF, LOF mutations take different paths to same result; Study links GABA, mitochondria, social defects.
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