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(Months)", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We are building a headset to test promising research showing light and sound of certain frequencies may remediate symptoms of dementia, with the aim of producing an inexpensive deployment unit to be used in a forthcoming decentralized clinical trial in humans. ", "hidden": true, "question": "Describe your project in a few paragraphs (ideally including a problem statement, solution, roadmap, and timeline for implementation)", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "If successful this project will be the first example of a truly decentralized clinical trial, testing non-drug interventions for Alzheimer's disease. Furthermore, if  the result of this project yields a therapy which can remediate such diseases in any way, it will be a landmark moment for decentralized science - demonstrating that the crowd can accomplish a goal of immense public good which the traditional system has been unable to accomplish with over a trillion dollars in tax-payer funding over 30 years, and catalyzing significant changes toward decentralization within existing clinical trials infrastructure. ", "hidden": true, "question": "How does your project support the mission or goals of DeSci?", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Funding will allow us to build on our promising preclinical human participant findings to develop a hardware/software system that is able to iteratively apply various stimulus combinations, and zero in, based on EEG biofeedback, on optimal configurations at an individual patient level.", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe how funds from the grants program will be used for your project.", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "address", "hidden": true, "question": "If you participated in past grant rounds (i.e. DeSci GR15) using a different project payout wallet address, please share it here.", "questionId": 11, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "WmGKix8RPro5IdJGh+tfgV2KAtmdOfW6Mb96hmV/FSM=", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "db96cc81385d59f4d60d2bed6db86ccf84db2efaac02b0205bb5152c172d27e3de615cf60748e51e9002f2cde5b3f715de24e415bac199ae189cbc0ae8974bf68a6868e5a7e3b9ef5db70b3bd4a289efd0adabd3896be462ace95a4d90d1b9a89b49debdb9cb01dd38171c1d3a1e50cf8fbb1baa570df734a59005f2ec905891000000000000002037f18336e9a312609f96e4f570cb358cac1d3bcdf0b2a733d44e52917f79db02ab8ce4268e39f3d243235baabef5c1af"}}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We have gathered promising preclinical human participant results and have successfully developed patented technology which enabled a new paradigm of patient-specific stimulation. This equips us to move forward and structure a decentralized clinical trial to test for therapeutic benefit of our approach. ", "hidden": false, "question": "If this project participated in past grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones since the last round.", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Our work at Lifespan.io to address the root causes of aging is incredibly vital to the current and future success of humanity, and the effect of a positive result with a project such as this would be tremendous in shifting public perception and priorities towards decentralized science and overcoming all age-related disease. Our team members are well known and respected, and if anyone would like to learn more please look us up and Lifespan.io as well. Thank you!", "hidden": false, "question": "Is there any other information you would like to share about your project, previous work, other project affiliations, or potential conflicts of interest? 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Despite this bleak outlook, we have **strong evidence** to suggest that **present day technology** can be effectively organized to develop a **promising therapy to defeat Alzheimer's Disease.**\n  \n**[Watch the video below](https://vimeo.com/750458841/779478118e)**\n**[![IMAGE ALT TEXT](https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/1508827312-3ae4178ba675e6410f6aba969e0e45b3c83d863c5734d0d64068e05093373704-d?mw=1280&mh=720&q=70)](https://vimeo.com/750458841/779478118e \"MindSet Project Description Video\")**\n\n***New For Gitcoin Beta Round!***\n\nThanks to **your contributions in GR15** we have built a hardware / software **system demonstrating verifiable neurological effects** based on applied stimuli, for which we have successfully attained a non-provisional **[patent](https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/11612757?fbclid=IwAR0DsCUzpGIC6jljPKItCfeQNJCEPCuJSddVTAaFPK2xfCisY1LP1_piUiY)**. Using this **we have generated preliminary human data** showing effective and modifiable neural entrainment in humans. If you can **help us in this round** we will be able to acquire the equipment we need to **build an inexpensive and scalable prototype** capable of administering a first-in-kind truly **decentralized clinical trial**, to have therapies reach everyone as soon as possible.\n\n![Dr. Oliver Medvedik administers visual and audio stimuli to himself and his mother, Irena](https://c.gitcoin.co/docs/2f2f39c5b519d74095647cba7ac82d75/MindSet-Love.jpg)\n\n## Project Details\n\n***Evidence for Effectiveness***\n\nPublished scientific **evidence strongly supports** the development of **treatments for Alzheimer's disease that are non-pharmacological in nature**. Evidence also suggests that **multiple** such non-pharmacological interventions (NPIs) **can act in concert**, thereby increasing the effectiveness of such therapies in delaying and even reversing AD. Despite these positive developments, **traditional clinical trials** for NPIs have only been done on a relatively **small scale** and testing for efficacy has been mostly performed at clinical centers using standard paper-based assessment tests. This has been mainly due to the **complexity in administering** an NPI based treatment in a traditional clinical setting.\n\nWe are thankful to our **amazing team of advisors** for supporting us in this work, including renowned neuroscientist **Dr. Heather Berlin**, and renowned biologists **Drs. George Church and Brian Kennedy**.\n\n**[Watch the video below](https://youtu.be/Pn_J-f1-8dg)**\n**[![IMAGE ALT TEXT](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Pn_J-f1-8dg/maxresdefault.jpg)](https://youtu.be/Pn_J-f1-8dg \"Can Music Fight a Real Life Vecna? Stranger Things Running Up That Hill Explained - Science Blast\")**\n\n***The PIA MindSet***\n\nWe are developing a therapeutic device, the **PIA MindSet**, that incorporates **multiple NPI interventions that are safe and have shown promise** in both animal testing and **in human clinical trials**. This **headset c**ould be directly marketed and sold to users, where they themselves would **directly participate** in operating the device and submitting data for analysis. This would **circumvent the slow and costly route** towards usage and testing that would normally occur through an FDA approved clinical trial setting. Furthermore, the device may **also be used by healthy users** as a potential means towards **cognitive enhancement**.\n  \n***IRENA: an Individually Recorded, Enhanced Neurological Assessment software suite***\n\nIn conjunction, we propose developing an online individually recorded, enhanced **neurological assessment testing** tool, **IRENA**, where individual user parameters, arising from headset usage, along with online cognitive assessments, will be uploaded and **analyzed in real time** by the user base. This would vastly enhance our ability to assess and **improve the therapeutic value** of the **PIA MindSet**. **IRENA** would give us the capability to 1) **gauge efficacy** on a vastly larger scale of participants than traditional paper-based assessment tests have done thus far 2) **rapidly assess** the efficacy of various parameters of the **PIA MindSet** in real-time and 3) more **precisely identify** which users are receiving the most therapeutic **benefits**, i.e. those suffering from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) versus more extreme forms of dementia.\n\n![MindSet Project Components Diagram](https://c.gitcoin.co/docs/400c161dbe0e5bfae83fd2500b4ae154/MindSet-Diagram.jpg)\n\n***Project Development***\n\nTo launch the development of the **PIA MindSet** and **IRENA** software, we need to establish an initial **team of dedicated**, full time **software developers**, **hardware prototype fabricators**, along with a team lead that would direct all areas of operation. To these ends, it may be useful to break down the Project into three main working groups: **Interventions, Assessment and Analytics**. Each will require their own particular skill sets to achieve a minimal viable product success for the overall Project. There will be considerable overlap with each working group of course, for example, **validating primary scientific literature** regarding assessment tests and interventions. The **Interventions group** would focus on designing and building a device that incorporates several interventions. Also **developing the protocols for self-administering** the interventions. Manufacturing and distribution will also be a key component of this **working group**.\n\nThe **Assessment group** would focus on **software for the cognitive test**. This will require assessing scientific literature and either using and adopting available cognitive tests, such as **MiniCog**, and/or developing **news test** that would function on either an iOS/Android **smartphone**, **tablet** and/or **computer** workstation. Another key goal of the assessments group is to have **protocols** in place that would **mimic a trial study** with controls and experimental groups that would be the best fit for this type of **self administered device**. Development of the \u201ctrial protocol\u201d itself may involve considerable overlap with members' expertise among all three working groups. \n\nThe **Analytics group** will need to determine the best way to **securely store and manage the** **data** arriving from the self-assessment test (**IRENA**) and determine the best analytical tools to apply to tease out positive outcomes. This will help determine not only **which multi-intervention combinations are effective**, but also enable us to **determine the minimal numbers of participants required to revisit any promising intervention** **for any future** follow-up studies in a more traditional **\u201cgold standard\u201d** double-blinded **clinical trial**. If this approach works, it would have the **profound effect of upending how standard clinical trials are designed** in the future.\n\n***How Your Support Will Help Us Fight Alzheimer\u2019s Disease***\n  \n**Your contributions** will allow us to bring on additional **team members** and hasten the **completion of our prototype**, and \u2014 if it is successful \u2014 also help us make the resulting therapeutic hardware and software as **affordable and easy to use as possible**. Doing so will allow it to be **maximally available to the public**, and tee-up the ability to perform a **first-in-kind decentralized clinical trial** proving remediation of **Alzhiemer\u2019s**.\n\n  \n\nSuch an outcome would be **incredible** not only for the patients themselves, but also for their **loved ones** and all of society, due to mitigating the vast **socio-economic** harm caused by such diseases.\n\nFurthermore, **finally showing real progress** against these diseases will go a **long way towards convincing the public** that we are at last in the game in terms of fighting age-related diseases generally, and help usher in a new age of **support for healthy human longevity**. Together we can do this.\n\n### Thank You!", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectTwitter": "LifespanIO"}, "recipient": "0xF8dBc69F9657EF4928539BB8bdae7D9a9191f286"}}