Neurosteer participated in Peter Gabriel’s event at the Fotografiska Museum in NYC, demonstrating the effect of music and meditation on the brain using real-time graphics by displaying brain activity as it related to the intensity of focus, relaxation, and emotion.

A Tel Aviv University PhD student, Neta Maimon, came up with a 15-minute test that supports early detection of cognitive decline. The test uses musical cues in conjunction with Neurosteer’s EEG brain monitoring system to track brain function as elderly people listen to music.

Neurosteer was the winner of the Roche for a Better Future: Alzheimer’s Innovation Challenge , launched by Roche and Start-Up Nation Central with the vision of early detection and enhanced digital health support for Alzheimer’s disease patients and their caregivers.

Neurosteer received the “Brain Health Company of the Year” award from Tradex News . It has been a great year for us, most notably in improving our product for early screening of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and fronto-temporal dementia.

Following recent fMRI studies on the effect of music on the brain, Israeli TV Channel 13 interviewed Neta Maimon , a PhD student in music cognition at Tel Aviv University and a researcher at Neurosteer. Using Neurosteer sensing technology on a group of brain-monitored study participants, emotional and cognitive responses to songs were clearly visible. 

Neurosteer monitored two runners, in real time, during the NYC marathon on Nov 3rd. Prof. Steven Laureys, a key figure in the European Human Brain Project, was behind this initiative, which created significant interest in sports and other brain monitoring in extreme physical conditions. The article in DeMorgen describes it (in Dutch; use Google Translate). The full event was streamed live on Facebook . When going over the recording, one can see that Steven was meditating during much of the run (a well-known method to reduce oxygen consumption). 

Neurosteer, together with Stanford Prof. Carla Pugh, is quantifying and assessing surgeon performance before and during surgery as part of the Stanford Surgical Metrics project. During the American College of Surgeons conference in San Fransisco, brain activity data from more than 200 surgeons was collected. Check out the video to see the cognitive assessment and monitoring during simulated surgery. This illustrates an application of Neurosteer’s platform for the evaluation of cognitive performance of healthy subjects. The same setup can be used to monitor pilots and others during critical missions.

Video of Neurosteer at the Burdenko Institute in Moscow.

The Parkinson Therapy Center in Brescia attracts patients from all over the world (many under 60) for a week of training to live with the disease. The neuropsychologists at the center are using Neurosteer’s frontal lobe cognitive assessment to suggest specific therapies to the different patients. Here is a short broadcast demonstrating this exciting project on Italian television.