en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Boyden
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He received the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
Boyden’s Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences was the 2016 prize, not the 2015 prize.
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Official sources identify Edward Boyden as a 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences laureate, not a 2015 laureate. The Breakthrough Prize’s own laureate page is titled “Edward S. Boyden - 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.” MIT News likewise says Boyden “has received numerous awards for this work, including the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2016).” That directly contradicts the article’s statement that he received the 2015 prize.
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- Edward S. Boyden - 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
Edward S. Boyden ... Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
- Edward Boyden named inaugural Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology | MIT News
He has received numerous awards for this work, including the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2016) ...
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2015)
This award year is wrong: Boyden’s Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences was the 2016 prize.
Full reasoning
Edward Boyden is listed by the Breakthrough Prize organization as a 2016 Life Sciences laureate, not a 2015 laureate. MIT’s own news coverage also states that Boyden received the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences in 2016. So the honors list entry labeling it as “(2015)” is incorrect.
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- Edward S. Boyden - 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
Edward S. Boyden ... 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
- Edward Boyden named inaugural Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology | MIT News
... including the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2016) ...
employs brainwaves to treat sleep disorders, long-term pain, and tremors
Elemind’s marketed headband is for sleep only and is explicitly not intended to diagnose or treat medical conditions.
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Elemind’s own product and FAQ pages contradict this claim. The company says the headband being sold is a sleep product: its product page calls it “the first neurotech headband clinically shown to help people fall asleep significantly faster.” Its FAQ is even more explicit: “Elemind is not a medical device and is not intended for diagnosing or treating medical conditions,” and “The headband you are purchasing is for sleep only.” The FAQ adds that tremor and pain-related effects have been seen only in research settings, not as the marketed purpose of the consumer headband. So describing the launched headband as something that “treat[s] sleep disorders, long-term pain, and tremors” overstates what the product is for.
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- FAQ - Elemind Store
Elemind is not a medical device and is not intended for diagnosing or treating medical conditions... The headband you are purchasing is for sleep only... In research settings, Elemind's technology has proven effective at inducing sleep, suppressing Essential Tremor, enhancing the sedative effects of anesthesia, and improving memory and learning.
- Elemind - Elemind Store
The first neurotech headband clinically shown to help people fall asleep significantly faster, and restart sleep fast if they wake up.
- About us - Elemind Store
Thus far, in addition to sleep, Elemind has been used to suppress Essential Tremor (ET), increase pain thresholds, augment anesthesia, and boost memory formation.