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Muse Launches Athena, a Next-Gen Brain-Training We...

As wearables from smartwatches to sensible rings turn into large enterprise, brain-training might signify the following frontier

Muse by Interaxon has launched the Muse S Athena, a wearable headband that enables customers to investigate their mind exercise and blood-oxygen ranges in actual time for superior “psychological health” coaching.

In accordance with Muse, the Athena is the world’s first client wearable to mix Electroencephalogram (EEG) and useful near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) sensors into one product. EEG tracks mind exercise whereas fNIRS measures oxygen ranges within the mind’s frontal cortex.

By analyzing mind exercise and oxygenation ranges in actual time, the Athena basically permits customers to coach their brains like they might their muscle tissue on the health club. 

“True well being isn’t simply bodily – it begins together with your mind,” stated Jean-Michel Fournier, the CEO of Interaxon, Muse’s guardian firm. “Athena is designed to sort out the rising problem of cognitive decline whereas marking Muse’s evolution from meditation to full-spectrum mind well being. Simply as bodily health requires energy, endurance and talent, psychological health calls for the identical focused coaching.”

Out there for $475, the Athena headband permits customers to partake in customized brain-training video games, obtain real-time insights into their mind well being and measure progress over time by means of the Muse app. In a single recreation, Athena customers are requested to manage the flight of an on-screen owl utilizing solely their minds. As psychological effort will increase, the owl strikes sooner; as focus wanes, the owl slows down. 

Muse says that by coaching with the Athena, customers can optimize their focus and endurance whereas defending towards psychological decline. 

man uses the Muse app while wearing an Athena headband
credit score: Muse by Interaxon

The Athena follows Muse’s present wearables within the Muse S and Muse 2, each of which use EEG sensors solely and are designed to optimize sleep and meditation. The Athena additionally presents sleep and meditation options.

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As wearables from smartwatches to sensible rings turn into large enterprise, brain-training might signify the following frontier. Final yr, Muse partnered with Alphabeats, makers of a brain-training app for athletes and high-performers, to make the Alphabeats app obtainable on Muse’s platform. 

Longevity specialists together with Dr. Frank Lipman consider brain-mapping tech will turn into extra superior and simply accessible within the coming years, probably revolutionizing folks’s cognitive well being. 

“I believe mind well being goes to turn into one thing we are able to measure pretty simply after which make modifications accordingly,” Dr. Lipman instructed ATN final yr, including that such a growth would have a profound influence on serving to folks defend towards age-related cognitive decline together with, probably, towards ailments like dementia. 

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