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That’s very cool!! Simple, but fascinating!

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3rd parqagraph

"She spoke of how her parents’ cognitive decline impacted her and moved her to do something about early treatment"

Would not early treatment involve living a clean toxin, chemical, drug free life, eating HEALthy whole organic foods, exercising, eating that 'apple a day' to keep the allopathy medicine and butchery away?

This is just more of the Transhumanism agenda that is being pushed.

There is nothing cool to what amounts to cyborgs.

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Neurotrack makes the assumption that neurodevelopmental disorder, dementia and Alzheimer's are homogeneous in their effect: They are not. Full Stop. Attrition can occur in attention, cognition, the varied memory systems as well as executive and organizational skills. The questions any health provider queries should touch on all these systems as they do not uniformly degrade in aging - intervention, rehabilitation will build on preserved abilities as well as compensatory strategies for those which are attenuated. Also, critical information to tracking change over time - no studies which plot efficacy of intervention as well as change over time in sufficiently granualar form to make intervention decisions. Neurotrack is all type and very, very thin on well designed cohort research.

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Wow! like the online mold test! Very cool! Too bad FDA shut down doctors treating patients with 'Essentiale N' for Alzheimer's. It sure worked for me. Couldn't walk or talk and now back to normal activities including water aerobics & exercise classes.

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Pretty cool to see this. I have a startup that does something similar, uses eye tracking, eeg, and heart rate / galvanic skin response to profile the person. You can use these markers to infer many states and conditions. From Alzheimers, to concussions, to Covid related brain fog, to traumatic brain injuries. I think the trickier part is the ecosystem around it. This company in the article has taken over $25 million to set up the service provider / medical insurance framework. Who will offer the service, what will they charge, what will they pay you, how often do you come into the office, how many patients can they use it on, etc. That's the tough part.

The unfortunate part is I've seen some incredible techniques that seem to be struggling for commercialization. We ran across one startup that could cure stuttering symptoms for 10 minutes through a special technique - struggling for funding. Odds are most people will never know that there's a noninvasive treatment for stuttering available that could be expanded on. It just seems tough to commercialize these things, so it's great to see this startup doing well.

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Give some of the $10m to Exley & his team, give some to raising awareness about poisons in the environment, & give the rest to prosecuting those responsible.

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It would be very enlightening to see Neurotrack testing mapped against flu vaccine uptake.

My working hypothesis is that a huge amount of alzheimer’s and dementia conditions are linked to the flu shots.

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Hmm, some time back a smart fellow wrote how earlier non-symptomatic screening of rare, advanced age diseases (the focus was on perhaps pancreatic cancer but not sure) resulted in more people sufferig chemotherapy and no years of life spared. My takeaway was that the only ones to benefit from over screening was the medical industry. I think that was the point.

This eye tracking sounds nice. I have many times though that because a specialised professional graphologist (soon to become extinct) can diagnose a number of ailments from hand writing it would follow that typing and now swiping could also be used to diagnose ailments. This is now in the public domain and you can do what you like with the idea. The same can be said for typing cadence that could be used to determine if the password owner typed it in or some other party. I though it strange that this source of timing and motion data was not being exploited.

I suppose a iridology diagnosis app will soon show up, if not on the official play stores then at least on F-Droid or side loaded on older jail broken iPhones. Every day the phone looks at the operator and could easily detect CHANGES in the iris and use this to make inferences on a number of organ systems.

I have another great treatment modality that could be done with a sports/activity watch and a phone, contact me on FB or LinkedIn if interested. Might be patentable (or already patented on the low down) or perhaps not, be a great technology to licence for the cost of a $1-10 phone app so that everyone in the world who wants it could use it. It has a diagnostic modality to it as well.

Just $10 million for an eye tracking app sounds bold, the ghost of Theranos just walked though me.

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