Unlike the CES Digital Health Summit, HIMSS and SXSW, software and gadget startups aren’t easy to come by at the healthcare conference I’m attending today.
At Life Science Nation’s Redefining Early Stage Investments conference in Boston, the entrepreneur wearing the sensor headband definitely stood out. That would be Tasos Smeros, founder of Multineurons, who was demonstrating the company’s head-worn sensor device for non-invasive brain diagnosis and therapy.
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The Switzerland-based company has developed an iPad app called WakeUp that works along with a sensor device to monitor brain activity. Smeros said the device measures three metrics – speed (connectivity of neurons), fitness (neuroplasticity) and robustness – at 10 different points in the brain.
Several other wearable devices being developed use non-invasive EEG signals to let consumers monitor their brains, like Muse and Melon. And while Smeros said he’s interested in pursuing the wellness market, he also said the point here is to give a deeper view of the brain’s performance in a way that could help medical professionals monitor brain disorders like stroke, brain hemorrhage and Alzheimer’s.
The company is planning to start a pilot test in a Swiss rehabilitation facility this summer.
