Frontiers perspective warns of risks from long-term, unsupervised tDCS use

A Frontiers Perspective accepted 6 April 2026 warns that long-term and unsupervised use of tDCS lacks systematic safety data and urges researchers, regulators and vendors to adopt safeguards and materiovigilance.

AI eye‑tracking and emotion recognition to improve attention in children with autism

Matrouh University researchers describe an AI system combining eye‑tracking and emotion recognition to monitor and adapt attention during storytelling for children with autism. The published excerpt lists authors and approach but does not include outcome or sample data.

Connectome Health Raises $2M Pre-seed to Build Longitudinal Cognitive Monitoring Platform

Zurich NeuroTech startup Connectome Health raised $2 million pre-seed to build a longitudinal platform that creates personalised cognitive baselines, applying methods from Imperial College London’s LUCID study and linking neural signals to sleep and activity.

Finnish neurotech Audicin raises $1.9M to expand app, headband and SDK

Finnish neurotech Audicin raised $1.9M, taking its total to about $3M, to expand its audio-based app, sleep headband and a lightweight SDK for embedding nervous-system regulation into other platforms.

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TRICEPS trial recruits ~270 UK stroke patients to test ear-based vagus nerve stimulation with physiotherapy

The UK TRICEPS trial is recruiting roughly 270 stroke patients across 19 centres to test daily ear-based vagus nerve stimulation combined with physiotherapy; researchers say evidence for external VNS is promising but still incomplete and larger trials are underway.