Sec­ond and last day of the 6th Annual Neu­rotech Lead­ers Forum.

High­lights
– Deeper review into the chal­lenges the sec­tor (mainly neu­rode­vices) face, such as com­plex­ity of reim­burse­ment process, and lack of rea­son­able agree­ment as to what “sci­en­tific evi­dence” means (Medicare and Med­ic­aid require ran­dom­ized double-blind pro­to­cols, which is tough, if pos­si­ble in ensure in some cases)

- The Neu­rotech­nol­ogy Indus­try Orga­ni­za­tion, to be for­mally pre­sented at the Soci­ety for Neu­ro­science Con­fer­ence could fill an impor­tant role there.

- Dr. Michael Merzenich was among the recip­i­ents of the Gold Elec­trode Award 2006. Dr. Merzenich is one of the pio­neers in this field and Co-Founder and Chief Sci­en­tific Offi­cer of two lead­ing com­pa­nies in this sec­tor: Sci­en­tific Learn­ing .
and Posit Sci­ence .

- We pre­sented our view of the Brain Fit­ness mar­ket, with the fol­low­ing Exec­u­tive Summary:

1) The computer-based Brain Fit­ness Pro­grams field is a new and grow­ing field, dri­ven by recent major sci­en­tific find­ings, the first pro­grams with clear clin­i­cal data and the emer­gence of wide pub­lic aware­ness of the need for “brain exercise”

2) Sharp­Brains brings to mar­ket computer-based, proven, best-of-breed cog­ni­tive neu­ro­science appli­ca­tions to present a full “brain gym”. The pro­grams are devel­oped by research insti­tu­tions and/ or affil­i­ated com­pa­nies worldwide

3) Some pro­grams we have iden­ti­fied are tar­geted at
– Over­all brain main­te­nance
– Bio-feedback based stress man­age­ment
– Work­ing mem­ory train­ing for peo­ple with ADD/ ADHD
– Basketball-specific “game-intelligence”. Yes, this can be trained too!

Enjoy the weekend

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