Posts Tagged ‘biomarker’
On mental fitness beliefs, lifestyles and new tools like apps, digital therapeutics, virtual reality, “brain age gaps” and more
Welcome to a new edition of SharpBrains’ e‑newsletter, featuring timely brain & mental health news and a fun couple of math brain teasers. #1. Study on the “ABCs of Mental Health” finds that simply believing you can improve mental wellbeing helps actually improve it Beliefs matter. #2. “Digital therapeutics” vs. “Mental health apps”: A growing…
Read MoreStudy: Personalized, closed-loop neuromodulation can (one day) become a “pacemaker for the brain”
Treating Severe Depression with On-Demand Brain Stimulation (UCSF press release): UCSF Health physicians have successfully treated a patient with severe depression by tapping into the specific brain circuit involved in depressive brain patterns and resetting them using the equivalent of a pacemaker for the brain. “This study points the way to a new paradigm that is…
Read MoreStudy: Artificial intelligence program identifies linguistic markers that predict, with 70% accuracy, who gets Alzheimer’s Disease years later
Alzheimer’s Prediction May Be Found in Writing Tests (The New York Times): … the researchers looked at a group of 80 men and women in their 80s — half had Alzheimer’s and the others did not. But, seven and a half years earlier, all had been cognitively normal.
Read MoreThe latest on Brain Health and Resilience, plus a few fun Brain Teasers
Welcome to a new edition of SharpBrains’ e‑newsletter, featuring fascinating neuroscience findings and tips, combined with fun brain teasers. #1. To celebrate this quite-challenging Thanksgiving, here are five fun brain teasers that readers have enjoyed the most this year so far. It is always good to learn more about (and appreciate) that most precious resource…
Read MoreAlphabet’s X shares Amber EEG system to expand the quest for mental health biomarkers
Alphabet’s X details Project Amber, a quest for a single biomarker for depression that fell short of its goal (TechCrunch): Alphabet’s X (the Google-owner’s so-called “Moonshot Factory”) published a new blog post today about Project Amber, a project it’s been working on over the past three years — the results of which it’s now making…
Read MoreNebraska football team developing 10-minute concussion test
Nebraska to study concussions (ESPN): “…the day is coming when a football player who takes a hit to the head will come to the sideline, take off his helmet and slip on an electrode-covered mesh cap
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