Apollo Neuroscience Inc. recently introduced a new software called Smartvibes for its Apollo wearable device to help people lower their stress levels and sleep better. There are a growing number of wearable technologies that have sensors that continuously measure physiological signals to help individuals monitor and manage their health conditions.

Using microglia and an unbiased screening method, investigators have identified almost 60 previously unknown targets for γ-secretase. Investigators from KU Leuven and colleagues published their results in Molecular Cell on Nov. 16, 2023.

Stanford University researchers are seeking patent protection for a medical device for performing endovascular surgical procedures, such as thrombectomy, rotablation, drug delivery and treating brain aneurysms. The device includes a magnetically actuated untethered rotation device, i.e., a magnetic spinner, that can navigate in blood vessels through its spinning-enabled propulsion.

Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh seek patent protection for a method of treating motor disorders by applying an electrical stimulus to neurons in the thalamus. The invention is based on their discovery that deep brain stimulation of specific lateral areas in the thalamus leads to improvements in motor outputs of voluntary movements affected by motor disorders.

Researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, are seeking – through the university’s commercial arm, Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd. – to gain patent protection for methods and systems for detecting and treating attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) that are based on nasal respiration parameters.

The Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADFF)’s Diagnostic Accelerator launched the first longitudinal, international study of vocal changes associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Part of a $100 million effort to develop affordable biomarkers for AD, the study hopes to create the world’s largest database of speech and vocal data to facilitate diagnosis and monitoring of neurodegenerative disease.

Electrical stimulation of the spinal cord has restored the ability to walk normally to a patient whose chronic Parkinson’s disease (PD) had led to severe motor deficits, researchers reported in the Nov. 6, 2023, online issue of Nature Medicine.

Pulkit Grover, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, reported a new approach for electrode placement that explicitly exploits the thresholding phenomenon of neurons to achieve significant gains in focal neural stimulation.