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Lurking beneath a quiet funding stretch in this newsletter are seismic shifts in neurotech’s role in medicine, business, society, and government strategy.
The last two weeks offer undisputable signs of market-making developments. This isn’t hype, there are several strong signals of innovation in clinical methods, commercial competition, reimbursement strategy, patient advocacy, strategic philanthropy, and beyond.
Commercial news: $12m for SoundHealth’s FDA-cleared acoustic platform and craniofacial data, $3.5m for Kantoko’s ADHD care model, Ottobock’s acquisition of Spanish company in Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) for neuro-orthotics. $3m from Brainsway to Radial.
Sensing: Zedsen’s MHRA for handheld breast cancer detection. New studies from Samsung’s & Neuroscape, and Neuralight. A commercial hire at Gray Matters Health. And Adaptyx’s ARPA-H grant boosts Attune’s Phase II study. Plus GRIP’s exciting biomechanics rig, neuroimaging papers, and more.
Mental Health Neuromod: Neuronetics-owned Greenbrook’s new psych clinic plays like Dueling Banjos to BrainsWay’s Radial investmen, both indisputable signs of market development. More market momentum: Headlands new psycho CRO. Neurolief’s VA contract, Graymatter’s biomarkers platform, Gray Matter Neuroscience’s TRD registry, & commentary on self-labeling
Low Intensity Focused Ultrasound: FUS in addiction medicine at WVU’s Dr. Ali Rezai. Datasea’s Acoustic BCI. Clearpoint’s new FUS play. Research papers by Attune’s Keith Murphy, plus LIFU for epilepsy and pre-neuromod targeting.
Society Section: This edition contains a wonderful smattering of the Good (trio of BCI papers, including patient preferences at Motif, Menopause opportunity analysis), Bad (Psychiatric deprescribing, US neuroscience lagging) and Ugly (ICE’s shock gloves and Wired’s cliché clickbait puff piece)
Plus Plus: Two new adaptive hearing aid upgrades. Progress from Charco’s Parkinsons CUE1+ device, Kandu’s stroke BCI, Nerivio’s migraine program. Imec’s new neuromorphic compressive telemetry (NCT) chip.
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PL Neuro: BCI Roadmap Series: Roadmap 3 — Popularizing the Promise of Neurotechnology - Read More
Resonant Link Medical: Want a faster, lower-risk path to market and power that unlocks new capabilities, instead of limiting what’s possible? Meet Vivigo™: RLM’s 20-Minute Wireless Charger, now in its next generation.
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BADASS Labs: Announcing Mission Booster, a new procurement services collaboration with Wasteless Bio. Learn more!
Funding
SoundHealth Raises $12.25M to Accelerate Growth of Its AI-Enabled Non-Invasive Devices for Breathing and Sleep Disorders (Business Wire)
Kantoko raises $3.5M to expand its ADHD assessment and treatment platform (via Hemingway Report)
BrainsWay Announces $3m Strategic Investment in Radial Health, Inc (BrainsWay)
Brain Aneurysm Foundation Announces its 2026 Research Grant Recipients (PR Newswire)
Selective Harnessing of Intrinsic Neuroplasticity Engineering (SHINE) Information Session (SAM.gov | Inside BCI)
Commercial
Greenbrook Opens National Center of Excellence for Advanced Interventional Psychiatry in Rockville, Maryland (Globe Newswire)
“The nearly 7,000-square-foot facility is the largest Greenbrook center to date and reflects a significant investment in the future of interventional psychiatry, serving as a national blueprint for advanced, patient-centered mental health care delivery.
Ottobock continues strategic expansion of Neuro-Orthotics with acquisition of FES company in Spain (Ottobock)
ClearPoint Neuro Reports Second Quarter 2026 Results (Clearpoint Neuro)
Your thoughts on ClearPoint’s announced FUS plans?
BrainsWay Reports Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results and Operational Highlights (BrainsWay)
Record second quarter 2026 revenue increased 35% to $17.1 million, compared with Q2 2025. Adjusted EBITDA more than doubled year-over-year to $3.5 million, with margin expanding to 20%.
Grey Matter Neurosciences announces treatment-resistant depression as its first clinical focus and launches online registry to support recruitment and future clinical research (Biospace)
Neurolief Expands Veterans’ Access to Prescription Neuromodulation for Depression and Migraine Through New VA Contract (PR Newswire)
Adaptyx Biosciences and Attune Neurosciences Launch ARPA-H-Backed Study to Identify an Objective Molecular Signature of Chronic Pain (Business Wire)
A brilliant example of federal dollars aiming for the bull’s eye by validating emerging biomarkers AND aiming that validation at a translational clinical stage study deployed in a public health program. The layers of data that come from this could be a text for a decade of FUS innovation: “Patients in Attune’s Phase II trial of its investigational focused ultrasound treatment, which is designed to target the brain circuits involved in chronic pain without surgery or medication, will wear Adaptyx sensors continuously during and for days surrounding their treatment sessions. The 24-month, $4 million study is soon enrolling the first of what will be 100 adults with chronic pain, with an emphasis on U.S. military veterans. ARPA-H’s EVIDENT program uses a single Adaptyx multi-analyte wearable sensor to read all five biomarkers in the body at the same time. The sensor reads five molecular biomarkers at once, including cortisol, lactate, and small-molecule metabolites associated with pain, tracking how they shift as pain changes. Wearables, including wireless EEG and smartwatches, will be used to track sleep, activity, and neural signals, building a synchronized, multimodal picture of pain and its relief with the molecular data at the center.”
Headlands Research Expands Pacific Northwest Presence with New Clinical Research Site in Bellingham, Washington (Headlands)
Neuroscape and Samsung Partner To Study Cognitive Change Across the Lifespan (Samsung)
Cortical Labs New Biocompute Data Center Opens: Forget silicon chip servers, Singapore’s newest data centre needs to be fed (Straits Times)
This is not a new announcement, but this center’s opening last month and pricing intel are new as far as I’ve found.
New Beltone Illuminate Hearing Aids Automatically Adapt to Noise, Helping People Hear More Clearly in Everyday Life (PR Newswire)
New ReSound Sensia™ hearing aids lift the voice you want to hear - not just the loudest (PR Newswire)
Alliance Health and Cortica Partner to Ensure Access to Quality, Cost-Effective Care for Children with Autism and Other Developmental Differences (PR Newswire)
GrayMatters Health Accelerates Patient Access with New Appointment for Payer Strategy for Biomarker-powered Prism treatment for PTSD (PR Newswire)
Reach Neuro appoints Jennifer Ernst CEO (LinkedIn)
Regulatory
Datasea Announces FDA Registration and Device Listing for NeuroVibe Acoustic BCI Biofeedback System as a Class II 510(k)-Exempt Biofeedback Medical Device (PR Newswire)
Zedsen gets MHRA nod for handheld breast cancer detection device (LinkedIn)
Trump Administration Reveals New Guidelines for Autism Therapy
Federal Medicaid agency taking closer look at rapidly growing therapy known as applied behavior analysis (WSJ)
FDA Meeting, Open to the Public: Regulatory Science Innovations Catalyzing Medical Device Development - September 25, 2026 (FDA)
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UC Irvine’s Minds, Maps, and Machines conference (cnlm)
Kalil’s Corner: Business Plan Competitions for Multi-Sector Collaborations (Renaissance Philanthropy)
Industry
Her Brain Was Broken. It Was Fixed With Sound—Not a Scalpel (Wired)
I liked this piece. I’m curious what questions you have about this?
Largest, Longest Real-World Study of Migraine in U.S. Veterans Finds that Nerivio® Helps Patients Successfully Skip Prescribed Migraine Medications in 3-out-of-4 of Their Migraine Attacks (PR Newswire)
Give ‘Em Something to Talk About: Demystifying Speech BCIs (Paradromics)
Nia Therapeutics: A ‘Breakthrough’ to Restore Memory (Omnia)
Has the next neurotechnology revolution started? Cambridge-led roadmap sets course for the future of neurotechnology (University of Cambridge)
Neurolutions/Kandu: At-Home BCI Rehabilitation Therapy for Chronic Upper Extremity Deficit After Stroke (BCI-REHAB): A Randomized Trial (Stroke)
Charco announces publication of a pilot RCT, with data highlighting that the CUE1+ is safe and well tolerated, with encouraging signals for motor symptom relief in people with Parkinson’s Disease (LinkedIn)
Neuralight: Landmark International Brain Health Initiative Deploys NeuraLight’s Biomarkers to Quantify Change in Brain Function (Business Wire)
Did Neuralight pay, or get paid for their participation in this study? Or neither?
Neural telemetry breakthrough: new chip delivers ten-fold compression while preserving signal integrity (Imec)
Neurotech.TV
Where does innovation come from? From a strong team, a clear mission, and a curious mindset, according to Nako Nakatsuka, Ph.D., a chemical nanotechnology researcher studying biosensing (American Chemical Society)
MEI Micro Is Betting That Better Sensors Mean Better Medicine (Startup Health)
Explore the Asilomar for the Brain and Mind workshop series, covering translational tools from neuroethics to BCI investment diligence (BrainMind)
Society
ICE Plans to Give Officers Gloves That Can Deliver Electric Shocks (NYTimes)
“In a notice published on Monday, the Homeland Security Department said it planned to purchase the “CTG-5 G.L.O.V.E.,” which stands for Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter. It also said it planned to issue them to ICE officers and agents who work on immigration enforcement and criminal investigations. The contract could be worth up to $20 million, and the purchase could be complete by the end of March, according to the notice.”
First human trials of designer protein therapies stun US neuroscientists (American Chemical Society)
Jacques Carolan: “A wild thing just happened at US BRAIN Initiative meeting” (X)
What matters in next-generation implanted neurotechnology design? Perspectives from individuals with treatment-refractory depression (Journal of Neural Engineering | Stat News)
Advancing data protections for implantable brain-computer interfaces (Nature)
Unifying consent standards for implantable brain-computer interfaces (Device)
Psychiatric Deprescribing as a Wicked Problem (Psychiatry Margins)
Bridging Neuroscience, Health, and the Built Environment: A Giving Smarter Guide (SPARC Milken Institute)
Milken also appointed Sylvie Raver, PhD as SPARC’s new managing director (LinkedIn)
A brain-first framework for perimenopause management: the case for non-invasive neuromodulation (Frontiers in Global Women’s Health)
Menopausal Hormone Therapy and Brain Health: Current Evidence, Knowledge Gaps, and Future Directions (SSRN)
Ex-QB Matt Hasselbeck part of quest for living diagnosis of CTE (ESPN)
How Your Brain’s CEO Helps You Learn, Adapt, and Make Smart Decisions (Frontiers)
Wait this is for kids?
Would you trust your boss with data about your brain? California moves to regulate neurotech (Cal Matters)
Have We Turned Personality Into Diagnosis? Why we keep searching for new ways to explain ourselves. (NYTimes)
Big Tech Wants to Harvest Your Thoughts (Wired)
Research
MIT researchers Nataliya Kosmyna and Eugene Hautpmann release new NeuroAtlas tool to help understand “which parts of the brain do what, and how can we measure it, and what modalities help us understand it better.” https://atlas.neuro2.ai/ Fluid Interfaces Lab
Tremendous public resource that can transform career paths, shape funding strategy, and open doors for collaboration. Check it out!
Calibrated simulations for dynamic focusing of ultrasound through the temporal window (Cell Reports Methods)
Low-intensity focused ultrasound neuromodulation for drug-resistant epilepsy: A randomized, sham-controlled crossover trial (Pubmed)
Functional ultrasound imaging in preclinical brain stimulation: from multimodal readouts to closed-loop neuromodulation (Frontiers in Neuroscience)
A little bird told her: scientist wins $100,000 prize for decoding birdsong (The Guardian)
Local field potentials for target localization in centromedian deep brain stimulation for epilepsy (Frontiers in Neuroscience)
High-speed microscopy reveals electrical activity across the brain (McGovern Institute)
Voltage imaging of neurons distributed across entire brains of larval zebrafish (Nature Methods)
GRIP: Ground Reaction Inertial Poser: Physics-based Human Motion Capture from Sparse IMUs and Insole Pressure Sensors (LinkedIn)
That’s a wrap! What did we miss? Let me know for next time.
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