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Hemispheric uses #Artificial Intelligence to analyze brain activity: The company comes from AI engineer and researcher Gidi Littwin, a veteran of Apple who was among the inventors of both FaceID and the Vision Pro headset. His new venture — developed in collaboration with computational neuroscientist Hagai Lalazar — trained a frontier AI model on a quarter million hours of brain data, collected from over 100,000 paid volunteers across Asia (with stops in Tel Aviv and Boston). The hope is that the model, given enough of this data, can make diagnoses and predictions based on electrical activity in the brain, in the same way that an LLM can break down text statistically. This could allow clinicians to detect brain health issues — including Parkinson’s, PTSD, schizophrenia, even depression — earlier in their development, without having to rely on far less precise methods, such subjective questionnaires and behavioral observations. Hemispheric’s first product — studying the impact of PTSD on the brain — will be submitted for FDA approval next year. They’re also testing now to see if the model can diagnose or predict the onset of Alzheimer’s. #Brain Journey Network wired.com/story/the-apple..

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An Inventor of Apple’s FaceID Wants to Analyze Your Brain’s Health With AI

Gidi Littwin’s new AI startup, Hemispheric, makes diagnostic brain scans for conditions like depression, PTSD, and Parkinson’s. He wants the technology to be as cheap and easy as for a blood test.