Neurotech Notables #47: Jan 16- Jan 31, 2026

Winter Warmers & Hearty Handshakes

Hello Readers,

February is here. As it’s officially Valentine’s day* month, I’d like to offer wishes of safety, health, and love to all of you impacted by the cold, ICE, and all other challenges of the human variety.

The rush of neurotech updates that opened January slowed to a steady flow of notable new analysis and reports, with the usual pileup of interesting research papers over the second half of the month.

• It was a slow commercial stretch, with $40m in new funding to Cranius and Omniscient along with smaller grant awards, one FDA clearance, and a handful of new commercial appointments. However, new efforts or expansions from Rice University, U of Cambridge, and Davos Alzheimer Collaborative speak to broader system efforts underway.

• New partnerships this week include Atlas’s new wearable EEG partnership with the NBA and Acacia Clinic’s new non-invasive VNS study with electroCore. The latter, taken with Northwell Health’s psychedelic clinic news, suggests that VNS may become part of the frontier psychiatry market too.

• A new FDA report summarizes a busy year of device regulation, while raising questions of staffing and capacity, especially after David McMullen’s departure. I’m seeking to partner with regulatory experts to step up Neurotech Futures content and coverage of FDA & CMS activity this year - please hit reply with ideas, suggestions, questions for collaboration.

• Check out new studies from Vivani, Noctrix, Attune, along with industry papers spanning economics of neuromod, brain capital, brain emulation, brain energy, and more. And scroll down to Research for fresh papers and preprints spanning modulation, imaging, implants, and more.

Ecosystem Activate: New updates pinned to the Community Board, including: commercial news, fresh jobs, and a new industry job board from our friends at reccy neuro. Catch Neurofounders inaugural webinar with Wave Neuro & Neuroelectrics CEOs on Neurotech.TV.

Lastly, stay tuned & upgrade for all new articles & analysis this month:

• Part 2 of 2025’s Funding Snapshot with category breakdowns

• Breakdown of the Precision-Medtronic collab and other top January deals in the next edition of Signals

• Exclusive signups for our next private event in the Bay, new public collaborations, and highlighting community sponsorship opportunities in the next Neurotech Insider.

• The second issue of my latest writerly side quest, n of 1.

“….and more” - if you have open internships, upcoming hackathons, student associations, or early career programming, events, content, goals, please hit reply this week! We’re working on something here and want your help…

💌 * Hit reply with a neurotech Valentine’s poem (no AI please) or short creative writing, or DM me on LinkedIn I’ll share submissions on our Neurotech Futures page and publish the best ones here in two weeks’ time.

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Funding

• CraniUS Therapeutics Closes $20 Million Series B Round to Advance NeuroPASS™ Platform Towards Future Commercialization (PR Newswire)

• NRFC invests $20 million to help Omniscient Neurotechnology expand its revolutionary brain mapping technology around the world (NRFC)

  • Omniscient is one to watch. More coming in Signals this month. What are your top questions?

• QV Bioelectronics secures £4.5m in investment and grant funding to develop what it calls a world-first glioblastoma implant (HTworld)

• €870K for novel cognitive-affective neurostimulation to “reorder the disordered mind” (Nature | Announcement & Discussion)

Commercial

• Resonetics to Acquire Resolution Medical, Expanding Capabilities in Neuromodulation and Structural Heart Markets (PR Newswire)

• Sleep WISP™ - New Patent Allowed for Glymphatic Clearance Monitoring and Enhancement (Neurosom)

• Cambridge Cognition CEO on growth, pharma & CANTAB Pathway solution (Proactive)

• Boston Scientific completes Nalu Medical acquisition (Mass Device)

• Atlas selected for NBA Launchpad program (LinkedIn)

• Juniper Biomedical Wins Neuromod Prize and Welcomes Frank Fischer to Board of Directors (Juniper Biomedical)

• Neuralace appoints Marshall Bedder, MD Chief Medical Officer (LinkedIn)

• Nyxoah invests in further expanding its Belgian manufacturing capacity (GS Medtech)

• Acacia Clinics and Vagus Nerve Society Conduct Study Using electroCore’s gammaCore Sapphire for Adjunctive Treatment of Symptoms Associated PTSD (Electrocore)

Regulatory

• Focused Ultrasound Device Earns FDA Clearance to Treat Kidney Stones (FUS Foundation)

• CDRH on track for review timelines despite staff cuts (Medtech Dive)

  • Great summary of FDA CDRH activity under new agency leadership, though the missing staffing data is notable…“The CDRH authorized 124 novel medical devices in 2025, compared with 120 last year, according to the report. The center also received more submissions — a total of 21,780, compared with 20,727 last year.”

• Full report available here.

• CNS Signs-on to Letter to Congress Regarding Dr. Walter Koroshetz (Child Neurology Society)

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Industry

• Two Years of Telepathy (Neuralink)

• Alto Neuroscience Presents New Data at the 64th Annual Meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (Alto)

• Measurement Strategy First: Designing Fit-for-Purpose Digital Endpoints (Koneksa)

• Neuropace: AI-Driven Electrographic Seizure Classification and Seizure Onset Detection Using Image- and Time-Series-Based Approaches (IEEE Explore)

• Cortec: Longitudinal multitask wireless electrocorticography data from two fully implanted nonhuman primates (Nature)

• Noctrix: Efficacy and safety of tonic motor activation (TOMAC) for restless legs syndrome as adjunctive and monotherapy: An individual participant data systematic review and meta-analysis (Sleep Medicine)

• Myndspan: Real-time data links sleep quality to brain aging (Longevity News)

• Northwell invests in mental health, opens Center for Psychedelics Research and Treatment (Northwell)

• Nottingham-based Cerca Magnetics recognised with high Sunday Times 100 Tech ranking (University of Nottingham)

• Attune: First-in-human low-intensity focused ultrasound targeting striatal circuits in schizophrenia: feasibility, safety, and effects on hallucinations and striatal-temporal functional connectivity (medRxiv)

• Vivani Subsidiary Cortigent Presents Promising 6-Year Early Feasibility Study Results for the Orion System at NANS 2026 (Globe Newswire)

• State of Brain Emulation 2025: Report, Executive Summary, Budget Calculator (State of Brain Emulation)

• A Look at the University of Utah’s Accessibility Research Using Meta Neural Band (Meta)

• DAC expands early detection implementation network to advance early detection of cognitive impairment in primary care settings (Eureka Alert!/AAAS)

• Chinese Startup Gestala Wants to Build a New BCI—No Implant Required (Wired)

• Cambridge Cognition CEO Rob Baker on CTE & TBI (LinkedIn)

• Inspire in the Gray Zone: How Medicare Confusion Is Impacting Physicians and Markets (Night Shift)

• Focused Ultrasound for Glioblastoma (GBM): Clinical Results and Follow-On Trial in Taiwan (FUS Foundation)

• Abbott: Study shows neuromod systems greatly reduce pain-related healthcare visits (MassDevice)

• California’s Brain Economy Moment: Why the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference Is the Right Forum, Right Now (Harris Eyre)

• Rice University officially announces Global Brain Economy Initiative (LinkedIn)

• New Cambridge institute will support high-value medical device translation (University of Cambridge)

• Recap of OneMind and Psymed’s Addiction Treatment Roundtable (Carmine DiMaro)

📺Neurotech.TV

• Fred Walke and Ana Maiques on Non-Invasive Neurotech in Mental Health (Neurofounders)

• When Sleep Apnea Looks Like Depression with Avinesh Bhar, MD (Osmind)

• Brains, Bodies, Environments: Jiali Zhang and Avery Krieger (Soma)

• Episode 9: Jon Nelson not without love (FUS Forward)

• The 50-year History of the BCI, Explained (Abundance Institute)

• From Foraging the Flashbacks: The Neural Basis of Spatial Memory and Mental Time Travel (Nanthia Suthana)

Society

• How Can I Improve My Mind-Body Connection? (Nike)

• ADHD Beyond Stimulants, and Stimulants Beyond ADHD (Psychiatry at the Margins)

• Social Media Giants Face Landmark Legal Tests on Child Safety (NYTimes)

• NeuroFuture: Conversations on Women Advancing Neuroscience Worldwide (IBI)

• Neurodiplomacy: Global leaders convene at the UNESCO House to advance brain health as a 21st-century priority (IBI)

• Building Brains Coalition’s State of the Field Review: Neuroarchitecture and Brain Health (CADRE)

• The Fight For Slow And Boring Research (Asterisk Magazine)

Research

• Mapping the Brain’s Energetic Landscape (The Science and Experience of Energy)

• Cybersenetics Book Club on February 22nd 2026 (Linkedin)

• Bridging nephrology and neurosciences: Insights from the kidney-brain axis (Behavioral Brain Research)

• Taming Tumor Chaos: Researchers Uncover Key to Improving Glioblastoma Treatment (Neuroscience News)

• CTE neuropathology alone is associated with dementia and cognitive symptoms (Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association | Discussion)

• Computational model discovers new types of neurons hidden in decade-old dataset (Big Think)

• Scientists shed new light on the brain’s role in heart attack (NPR)

• This new tool could tell us how consciousness works (MIT)

• BU - Brain Stimulation Method Can Evaluate Consciousness in Alzheimer’s Disease (Neuroscience News)

• Causal connectivity maps derived from single-pulse interleaved TMS/fMRI (Nature Scientific Reports)

• Intuitive, multidimensional motor unit control after paralysing spinal cord injury using non-invasive recordings (medRxiv | Discussion)

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