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by braja 3728 days ago
Thanks for your response! The references cited in your literature overview seems to focus on neuro feedback for ADHD, which is a great market. I remember reading recently that pediatric ADHD is on the rise and that it's super underdiagnosed - I'd imagine an effective diagnosis+management solution in this specific space to be extremely lucrative.

Also, I don't know if you'll get this from others, but simply saying "mental health" made me immediately think of depression and related issues. My suggestion would be to refine your problem and solution statement to narrowly talk about your initial target segment (ADHD, autism, etc.) of the broader mental health space.

Good luck to your team!

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Thanks for the suggestion, I definitely agree!

Also, ADHD is usually considered one of the most over diagnosed and under diagnosed diseases. That is to say, you have a high false-positive rate and a high false-negative rate.

That's actually one of the largest issues with mental health today, it's basically a psychologist just saying, "well you probably have this," it's not really scientific. Where are the measurements, why is it so mystical? We wanted hard analytics and that's why we are building this.