About Our Company
C8 Sciences was founded by two scientists, Dr. Bruce Wexler of Yale and Dr. Jinxia Dong of Peking University, based on proven neuroscience (“brain plasticity”) and intellectual property being patented by and licensed exclusively from Yale University.
We develop and market science-based, web-delivered cognitive development programs based on our proprietary technology of integrated computer and physical exercises. Our initial product is the first cognitive development program that integrates physical and computer exercises to improve a child’s ability to think, focus, learn, and socially interact. It is designed to improve the learning ability of elementary school children and also promises to have particular value in identifying and treating children with ADHD.
Our intellectual property was conceived when Drs. Wexler and Dong developed a program combining Dr. Wexler’s experience with computer-based programs for studying and treating psychiatric disorders, particularly schizophrenia and depression, with Dr. Dong’s knowledge of sports training. Two years ago they developed the first generation prototype product for children age 5-9, and they conducted a proof-of-concept trial with children in the summer and again in the winter of 2010 in Beijing. The results of these trials, measured by four NIH-standard cognition tests, indicated dramatic improvement in cognitive function equivalent to a 10-point increase in IQ.
Now after a year of additional development, our new web-delivered and expanded product, C8Kids, has been tested successfully in the summer of 2011 at New Haven Reads, a non-profit tutoring program in New Haven, Connecticut, and a pilot program in Bristol, Connecticut, Public Schools was successfully launched in mid-September 2011. Additional pilots are scheduled to begin in two more Connecticut public school districts in October.
C8Kids is “nutrition for the brain.” It is scientifically designed to develop the Eight Core Cognitive Capacities that are essential to learning. C8Kids does not replace traditional learning, but rather it prepares the child to learn more effectively.
