Harnessing Brain Plasticity
Adam Gazzaley, MD PhD
Professor - Neurology, Physiology and Psychiatry Director- Gazzaley Lab, Neuroscape Lab Neuroscience Imaging Center University of California, San Francisco
Akili Interactive Labs Co-founder and Chief Science Advisor Pending patents:
“Enhancing Cognition in the Presence of Distraction and/or Interruption” “Method of Suppressing Irrelevant Stimuli” “Methods of Enhancing Performance on a Cognitive Task By Improved Self-Regulation of Internal Distraction and Computer Readable Medium and Devices for Practicing the Same” “Methods of Enhancing Cognition and Systems for Practicing the Same”
Disclosures
Challenge
Develop an effective approach to enhance cognition in both healthy and impaired individuals
- Poor characterization
- Poor targeting
- Non-personalized
- Unimodal
- Open Loop
60 year old with mild cognitive impairment
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