| Intro | Spanish tech entrepreneur (b. 1971) |
| Is |
Business executive Businessperson Psychologist |
| From | Spain |
| Type |
Business Healthcare |
| Gender | female |
| Birth | 1971 |
| Age: | 49 years |
Gema Climent (born in Sagunto, Valencia, Spain in 1971) is a tech entrepreneur living in Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain. She is a scientist and technology creator of psychological tests.
Education
Climent studied Psychology & Neuropsychology at Universidad de Valencia, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, and at the Universidad de La Rioja
Career
After a decade of studying health and ageing as well as working as a neurological psychologist, Gema Climent co-founded the virtual reality business Nesplora in 2009. He has worked in public and private entities oriented to the evaluation and treatment of cognitive functions such as Matia Instituto Gerontológico. . She’s a forensic psychologist in the administration of justice
Psychological tests
With Nesplora, Climent has created a new generation of tests in Neuropsychology. Nesplora creates tools to help people with cognitive and neurological disorders such as brain injuries, dementia, attention deficit disorder and “creates technological tools to assess behaviour in virtual reality.” The innovation used is called VRMind, a “fully validated and scientifically tested software,” which aims “to be able to assess anyone who might have a cognitive problem.” By employing augmented reality technology, patients are exposed to a number of stimuli as their brain reactions are observed and recorded, providing a faster and more effective diagnosis as the reactions are observed live. This system can be used to detect cognitive disorders for a variety of populations by combining neuroscience with virtual reality and scientific evidence. In a clinical aspect, the system makes possible a more refined diagnosis of the patient. Nesplora has introduced several innovations by achieving a greater precision of the protocols of action, registering multiple variables of diagnosis, and at the same time objectively determining the degree of disorder impact on a particular patient.
Nesplora has developed several tests used to diagnose a variety of mental and neurological conditions.
- Nesplora Aula: neuropsychological test designed to assess attention processes in children aged 6 to 16 years to support a better and more objective diagnosis of attention disorders.
- Nesplora Aula School: focuses on supporting the identification of the student’s attention profile even without an attention pathology.
- Nesplora Ice Cream: evaluates the executive functions of a brain injury, schizophrenia, substance abuse, adult ADHD and degenerative disorders such as dementia (Alzheimer’s).
- Nesplora Suite: evaluates memory processes in patients with brain injuries, brain tumors, and neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia (Alzheimer’s).
- Nesplora Aquarium: test for analyses attention, working memory and ability to change tasks and the cerebral cortex in patients over 16-years-old. The test offers information for the diagnosis of ADHD and disorders such as anxiety, depression, and psychosis in adolescents and adults.
Other software created by Climent and Nesplora includes Isla Calma and Monité.
The software can be used in any computer or virtual reality glass. Nesplora received a fund of 1,4 million euros from Horizon 2020.
Awards
As sole CEO of Nesplora, Gema became finalist of the EU Prize for Women Innovators in 2017. “This prize recognises women entrepreneurs who have developed and brought to market an outstanding innovation.” Nesplora was awarded the Witsa Emerging Technologies Solutions prize in February , 2018 for “analysing human behaviour using immersive technologies.” Gema Climent is one of the Forbes Europe’s Top 50 Women in Tech for 2018. She was awarded the prize Toribio Echevarría to business trajectory in October, 2018. The Toribio Echevarría awards “are organised with the aim of: recognising the work of enterprising people the efforts, sacrifices, risks assumed promoting entrepreneurship, motivating toward business creation and development.” They “aim to support and drive the realities of technological creation and innovation” with relevance to the Basque Country.
In 2019 Gema is a One of the Women Entrepreneurs of the Year 2019 by CEO Today Magazine,
This award has been recognized for leading the revolution in the field of neuroscience and psychology, demonstrating that it is an innovative science and that it is being built, as a modern, adaptive and growing science, with high possibilities of creating new contributions to the better understanding of the brain and people.