“Big emotions” and their benefit in therapy

A symposium on November 15 (12:30 pm) will discuss processes within the brain, mental health and neurosciences. Prof. Malek Bajbouj, Director at the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Charité in Berlin, is researching how emotions, emotional memory and emotional competence are represented in the human brain and how this can be influenced for therapeutic uses. The work of Prof. Bajbouj goes beyond the classic borders between psychotherapeutic, psychopharmacological and neuromodulation procedures. Similar innovative strength is demonstrated by the young companies ‘Earable Neuroscience’, ‘Finetech’ and ‘Living brain’. For example, Julian Specht, co-founder of Living Brain, will offer a fascinating insight into the possible uses of immersive virtual reality for neurorehabilitation. The goal: Interaction with a virtual environment is supposed to make training under close-to-real conditions possible while maintaining a safe environment for re-learning activities of daily living at a reduced level of risk compared to the standard level.


Health Metaverse & Co.: the medical benefit of augmented reality

The Forum on November 14 (2:00 pm) will focus on the future of immersive health care. The focus will be on the Health Metaverse based on augmented or virtual reality (AR/VR), digital twins and similar technologies. Tibor Mérey from the Boston Consulting Group will describe what is already possible today and what the next steps could look like. He is a Partner & Managing Director of the Boston Consulting Group and has gained a lot of experience in many different metaverse projects. Mérey will present how to identify “golden use cases”. These include, for example, training and medical training. The company ‘FundamentalVR’ uses virtual reality in this context to simulate physical signals, the haptics of surgical procedures, medical instruments and varieties of tissue. Surgeons see the same images, hear the same sounds and above all have the same feeling as during a real procedure. Richard Vincent, CEO & co-founder of FundamentalVR, will also explain how this technology can be used to introduce novel products.

Emergency medicine, diagnostics, cooperation in the team and anatomy – those are areas in which ‘i3’ offers virtual simulations. DeviKolli, co-founder and CEO of i3 Simulations, will present an insight into these applications in his Forum talk. The ‘AnimaRES’ research team is embracing Microsoft's ‘Hololens’. This type of augmentation to reality makes it possible, for example, to view the heart and lungs from all sides – and learn about them. Pablo Olmos from AnimaRES will talk in greater detail about such best practices. Start-ups like Corbit GmbH, which offers a “TeleCare” station for tele-supported care at home – and thereby follows the trend towards outpatientization of medicine, are also part of the program on November 15. How to transform your home into a new “point of care” will be demonstrated by Siad Saymé, co-founder and CEO of Corbit. Corbit will also present its new developments for the entire duration of the trade fair on the show floor of the MEDICA START-UP PARK, which this year will feature a new record number of 50 participants.

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