Systematic evidence review finds cognitive behavioral therapy as effective as antidepressant medicines in treating depression

By SharpBrains | April 4, 2016 |

Depres­sion: Treat­ment Beyond Med­ica­tion (The Dana Foun­da­tion): “Major depres­sive dis­or­der affects near­ly 7 per­cent of peo­ple in the US aged 18 and up, accord­ing to the Depres­sion and Bipo­lar Sup­port Alliance. Those who seek treat­ment will most like­ly be pre­scribed a sec­ond-gen­er­a­­tion anti­de­pres­sant med­ica­tion such as a selec­tive sero­tonin reup­take inhibitor (SSRI), tri­cyclic anti­de­pres­sant (TCA),…

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Update: How to civilize the brain training Wild West

By SharpBrains | October 27, 2015

. Time for Sharp­Brains’ Octo­ber e‑newsletter, wrap­ping up this month’s key brain-relat­ed news. First of all, here’s a brain teas­er for you: How many hair­cuts do you think hap­pen in Amer­i­ca every year? Inno­va­tion news: How to best civ­i­lize the mobile brain health and brain train­ing Wild West (Tip: Con­sumer edu­ca­tion may help more than pure reg­u­la­tion) The…

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Survey: Growing demand for digital psychotherapies to help veterans deal with substance abuse, depression, problem solving and insomnia

By SharpBrains | October 6, 2015

Vet­er­ans go for dig­i­tal psy­chother­a­py (Health­care IT News): “Com­put­er­ized psy­chother­a­pies, or CPTs, hold great inter­est for vet­er­ans receiv­ing out­pa­tient treat­ment, accord­ing to a study pub­lished in Telemed­i­cine and e‑Health. The study, rely­ing on infor­ma­tion pro­vid­ed by 151 vet­er­ans receiv­ing treat­ment in a Vet­er­ans Health Admin­is­tra­tion sub­stance use dis­or­der out­pa­tient clin­ic, showed vet­er­ans were 

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10 Ways To Improve Health & Well-being Based On Latest Non-Invasive Neurotechnologies

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 22, 2014

— Last month I had the for­tune to join over 1,900 pio­neers from 90 coun­tries at the World Eco­nom­ic Forum’s Annu­al Meet­ing in Tian­jin, Chi­na, to dis­cuss how inno­va­tion can improve the state of the world. Through­out hun­dreds of pan­els, work­shops, pri­vate meet­ings and social gath­er­ings, we exam­ined how to deal with cli­mate change, how to invest…

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