Posts Tagged ‘wearable’
Can biofeedback-based videogames help children better manage stress? Magellan Health and Mightier secure $2 million NIMH grant to investigate
Mightier and Magellan Health Launch NIMH-Funded Research to Improve Outcomes in Children’s Mental Health through the Use of Video Games (press release): Mightier, provider of a ground-breaking video game system for teaching children emotional regulation, today announced the company has been awarded a $2 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to…
Read MoreNeuromodulation device Relivion gets FDA clearance to help patients with major depression who don’t benefit from antidepressant medications
Neurolief wins FDA breakthrough nod for wearable neuromod for depression (Mass Device): Neurolief announced today that it received FDA breakthrough device designation for its Relivion DP system for treating major depression. Relivion is a wearable, non-invasive, multi-channel brain neuromodulation device designed as an adjunctive treatment to pharmaceutical management of major depressive disorder (MDD) in adults…
Read MoreMagellan Health is testing biofeedback videogame Mightier to help children better self-regulate stress and behavioral health
Magellan Health piloting Mightier’s video game platform for emotional regulation training (MobiHealthNews): Scottsdale, Arizona-based Magellan Health announced today that it has launched a pilot of Boston Children’s Hospital spin-out Neuromotion Labs’ Mightier, a biofeedback video game platform designed to help children regulate their emotions.
Read MoreQantas monitors brainwaves of pilots and passengers to test 19.5‑hour flight from NY to Sydney
_______________ Qantas’ first 19.5‑hour research flight from New York to Sydney takes off (Nine News): “Qantas CEO Alan Joyce, who today is in New York for the research flight, told Today Show via a live cross that he will be selecting an aircraft for the mammoth job by the year’s end, in line with a previous…
Read MoreUpdate: Common anticholinergic meds seen to increase dementia risk
________________ Dear reader, It’s time for SharpBrains e‑newsletter discussing the latest research and innovations to help promote brain health, opening in this occasion with a large and worrying study tracking the long-term neural impact of commonly prescribed medications. New brain research: First, do no harm? Common anticholinergic meds seen to increase dementia risk …which is one…
Read MoreWearable brain scanners to enable broader, easier, cheaper access to neuroimaging
___ This Brain Scanner Is Way Smaller Than fMRI but Somehow 1,000% Creepier (Gizmodo): “It may look like something befitting Halloween’s Michael Myers, but the device pictured above is actually a breakthrough in neuroscience—a portable, wearable brain scanner that can monitor neural activity while a person is moving
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