Brain+ A/S announced a Swedish language version of Cognitive Stimulation Therapy has been created in collaboration with the Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE) in the AD-Shield project. This will enable further R&D work with company's Swedish partner research network, including Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE), University of Gothenburg: the Department of Applied IT, Sahlgrenska Academy, and AgeCap. An in-house usability study of the CST product at RISE yielded new recommendations for enhancing User Interaction (UI) design further.

Brain+ extended its collaboration with RISE via a key academic partner of Brain+, Associate Professor Rob Lowe, who has moved to RISE, and retains faculty status at the University of Gothenburg. Brain+ has over the last three years entered multiple Alzheimer's focused research and innovation projects with strong Swedish partners, including Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE), University of Gothenburg: Department of Applied IT, Sahlgrenska Academy, AgeCap. Brain+ has several innovation projects with these Swedish partners, including the Eurostars innovation project, AD-shield, funded by the European Union, Vinnova and The Innovation Fund Denmark, and the FORTE-Dementia Scoping project, funded by the Swedish Forskningsrädet för hälsa, arbetsliv och välfärd.

Brain+ has worked for 3 years with RISE in the E 1.5 million AD (Alzheimer's Disease) Shield project. During this work, RISE helped develop a Swedish language version of the CST Therapist Companion product and completed an in-house qualitative usability study of the CST product at RISE yielded new recommendations for enhancing User Interaction (UI) design further. Recently, our key collaborator, Rob Lowe, moved to RISE, which further strengthens and extends the collaboration with RISE.

Rob retains faculty status at the University of Gothenburg where he continues to work part-time.