Mindstrong Health raises $100M to transform how we measure and promote mental health

Mind­strong scores $100M to mon­i­tor well­ness via smart­phone behav­iors (Mobi­Health News): This morn­ing dig­i­tal men­tal health plat­form Mind­strong scored a whop­ping $100 mil­lion in Series C fund­ing. While Mind­strong has a his­to­ry of sol­id fund­ing rounds, this amount will more than dou­ble its total fund­ing. In 2017 it got its first $14 mil­lion cash infusion.…

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A Call to Action: Improv­ing brain & men­tal health via dig­i­tal plat­forms, neu­ro­plas­tic­ity research and the White House BRAIN initiative

A Call to Action: Improv­ing brain & men­tal health via dig­i­tal plat­forms, neu­ro­plas­tic­ity research and the White House BRAIN ini­tia­tive from Sharp­Brains: Track­ing Brain Health Inno­va­tion Ses­sion held at the 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit, fea­tur­ing: Dr. Thomas Insel, Direc­tor of the Nation­al Insti­tute of Men­tal Health (NIMH) Dr. Adam Gaz­za­ley, Direc­tor of UCSF Neu­ro­science Imag­ing Cen­ter and…

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New Summit Speakers: Thomas Insel (NIMH), Catherine Madison (CPMC), Rajiv Pant (NYT), and Mark Baxter (Rosetta Stone)

We are proud to announce four excel­lent addi­tions to the quite stel­lar Speak­er ros­ter at the upcom­ing 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Octo­ber 28–30th): Dr. Thomas Insel, Direc­tor of the Nation­al Insti­tute for Men­tal Health, will share his vision for a bet­ter brain health &  men­tal health sys­tem, and issue a call to action and inno­va­tion to get there Dr. Catherine…

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Dr. Thomas Insel, NIMH Director, to speak @ 2014 SharpBrains Virtual Summit

We are proud to share that Dr. Thomas Insel, Direc­tor of the Nation­al Insti­tute of Men­tal Health and neu­rotech­nol­o­gy vision­ary, will open the 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit on Tues­day, Octo­ber 28th. Pri­or to this appoint­ment at NIMH, Dr. Insel was Pro­fes­sor of Psy­chi­a­try at Emory Uni­ver­sity, where he was found­ing direc­tor of the Cen­ter for Behav­ioral Neu­ro­science. He…

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Good profile of pioneer Dr. Thomas Insel, NIMH Director

Blaz­ing Trails in Brain Sci­ence (The New York Times): “The pen­du­lum has swung so far toward drug ther­a­py in recent years that it is hard to recap­ture how dis­rup­tive those 1980 stud­ies were. Dr. Insel’s work and that of many oth­ers, test­ing the effect of new med­ica­tions, would turn the field away from long-term talk­ing cures…

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