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Part of the "brain cleaning" they are talking about is the clearing of amyloid plaques, which occurs during Slow-Wave Oscillations (SWOs) during N3/N4 sleep.

There has already been great research in this area, so I wish they would describe what else they are doing.

We're stimulating SWOs at our start-up https://soundmind.co in order to improve sleep performance - links to research are on our "how it works" page.

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I just read the Oxford paper that you linked to.

It appears to me that your approach is different from that of Dreem who used to provide "pink noise" via their headband.

I'm not sure it is different. I've always found Dreem really unclear about what stim they are using, and I've heard that stim has only been available in some regions, etc etc.

Doesn't really matter, as it appears they are mostly out of the market now.

This is a very exciting project. Any chance you can tell us how far along everything is?

Thanks. We've got prototypes built and are measuring sleep state and stimulating SWOs. We've got an industrial design firm working on fit/comfort and helping us move to design for manufacture.

We've got a bunch of stuff we're not talking about yet re: our GTM, but we're moving as fast as we can. :)

Does that answer your question?

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