Tag: neurotech
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Dementia Care Beyond Memory: Connection, Regulation, and Sensory Experience
If you have ever watched the film Coco (2017, Disney•Pixar), you may remember the moment when music brings a grandmother back into connection, as she begins to sing along to “Remember Me”. In the summer of 2025, grandmother, who had been mostly non-verbal while living with Alzheimer’s disease for over a decade, had a visit…
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Non-invasive technology for stress and anxiety: A qualitative case report and literature overview
Authors : LYEONS Research Team Contributors: Jesimiel Akinsuyi¹, Lucas S. Escobar¹, Victor Culverwell¹, Miranda Robbins¹, and Soo-Min Jung 1,2 1 LYEONS Ltd., 124-128 City Road, London, England, EC1V 2NX.2 Cambridge Neuroworks Correspondence to: Research team at info@lyeons.com Keywords Stress, Anxiety, User experience, Non-invasive technology, Physiomodulation, Qualitative evaluation Introduction Stressful situations are commonly linked to heightened…
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Journaling, Reflection and the Inner Space
One of the things I appreciated most growing up was a simple reassurance from parents: they would never read my diary. That promise created something important as a little child and growing up. It made journaling a safe zone. A space that existed only between me and myself. A place to reflect.To observe.To think without…
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Listening to Milly: How LYEONS Heart Became Part of Everyday Life
“It’s been wonderful to control some elements of my nervous system without really having to think about it. That’s been really freeing.” When we spoke with Milly, what stayed with us was how openly she described the experience of being physically aware of her nervous system much of the time, and how meaningful it can…
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Listening to Georgie: What Nervous System Support Can Feel Like in Real Life
About LYEONS Heart user Georgie Georgie studied Biological Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, where she explored how complex health conditions can be identified in the archaeological record, specialising in palaeopathology and osteology. She lives with several rare diseases, including one affecting the nervous system, giving her both scientific and lived insight into complex health…
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Co-regulation: how calm is shared, and why it matters more than we think
Most of us have been taught to treat stress as a thinking problem. Change the thought, change the feeling. Sometimes that works. Often it doesn’t, especially when your body is already in threat mode. There is another route in, and it is older than language: the nervous system. In a recent conversation with Ayala Homoossany,…
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An auditory heartbeat stimulus can influence heart rate and psychological experience
Authors : LYEONS Research Team Contributors: Lucas Sole Escobar, Rebeca Ianov Vitanov, Arianna De Angelis, Miranda Robbins, Soo-Min(Lucy) Jung Affiliation: LYEONS Ltd., London, United Kingdom Correspondence to: Research team at research@lyeons.com Abstract Stress and anxiety are prevalent in modern society and can cause negative impact on both physical and mental wellbeing. Due to these damaging…
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How We Prepared for Our Kickstarter MVP Beta Launch and What We Learned
As we move on with MVP LYEONS Heart, we wanted an early small cohort who would be our MVP beta testers. The learnings we wanted to get were: is there potential for LYEONS Heart to support people, and who is it most helpful for? What kind of improvements can we make – product, application, support,…
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How Your Body Creates Anxiety: The Domain Loop Model
A Different Way to Understand Chronic Anxiety Imagine if the way we feel anxious did not begin in our thoughts but in our body. When you haven’t eaten all day, it becomes difficult to focus. When you are in pain, even small decisions can feel harder. These everyday experiences remind us how closely our body…
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Insights on Stress and Anxiety – August 2025
1. Executive Summary 2. Introduction 3. Methodology and Limitations 4. Participant Profile 5. Key Findings 6. Implications 7. Conclusion / Next Steps 8. References Executive Summary This survey was designed to listen to and learn from people living with, or supporting someone with, stress and anxiety. By capturing their lived experiences, we aimed to uncover…