People can perform daily activities while wearing Neurosteer’s brain monitor. Photo: courtesy
Put together advanced neuroscience with signal-processing and machine-learning technologies and you get Neurosteer, the world’s first miniature, wearable continuous brain-activity monitor.
This Israeli invention, now in clinical trials in Israel, Europe and the United States, improves user experience compared to multiple-electrode electroencephalograph (EEG) and functional MRI (fMRI exams), explains Neurosteer CFO and VP business development Paul Weinberg.
“An EEG requires a half hour of placing electrodes, and fMRI involves getting into a big machine in a special controlled setting for 15 to 20 minutes with limited ability to stimulate the brain during recording,” says Weinberg.
“With Neurosteer, brain monitoring can be done on a 24/7 basis. It’s the EEG equivalent of a heartrate and glucose monitor that can be on continuously in a nonintrusive way while the patient carries out regular activities.”
Compared to fMRI – the current gold standard for brain activity screening and assessment – Neurosteer is inexpensive, portable and unobtrusive, requiring only an adhesive three-electrode strip placed on the forehead connected to a pocket-sized device that wirelessly transmits sensor data to a cloud-based HIPAA-compliant server.
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