16 Finalists announced @ MIT Solve’s Brain Health Challenge

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As Sharp­Brains read­ers know, MIT Solve issued a call for brain health inno­va­tors world­wide to pro­pose non-inva­sive, non-phar­ma­co­log­i­cal, scal­able tech­nol­o­gy solu­tions that:

• Empow­er peo­ple to improve their over­all brain health and fit­ness, men­tal well-being, and men­tal resiliency
• Enable ear­li­er, more-accu­rate diag­no­sis of problems
• Increase access to and effi­ca­cy of treatments
• Help build a pos­i­tive, stig­ma-free cul­ture in which all peo­ple feel empow­ered to proac­tive­ly seek bet­ter brain health and men­tal fitness

As a Judge and mem­ber of the Brain Health Challenge’s Lead­er­ship Team, I’m proud to announce 16 great Final­ists who will be advanc­ing to the Solve Chal­lenge Finals on Sep­tem­ber 17th. These final­ists will pitch their solu­tions to help peo­ple every­where improve their brain health and men­tal resilience, tack­ling the chal­lenge in dif­fer­ent ways includ­ing dig­i­tal diag­nos­tics for ear­ly detec­tion, work­force devel­op­ment for peo­ple on the Autism spec­trum, and men­tal health chat­bots to address depression:

• Aug­ment­ed Real­i­ty Neurorehabilitation
• Autism Detec­tion at Birth
• Cod­ing Autism
• Com­mu­ni­ties of HEALing
• DCT­clock
• JOOL
• Learn to Care
• Mem­o­ry­Well
• Mimerse — Self help VR ther­a­py platform
• Neu­ro­lab Seed
• Psy­cho­log­i­cal Geo­gra­phies: Map­ping Minds for Social Health
• Strong­Minds: Treat­ing Depres­sion at Scale in Africa
• The Dif­fer­ence
• Tomo
• Time­less
• Youth­Care

Please join me in con­grat­u­late them for their progress so far!

To learn more:

• Explore the 16 Final­ist Solu­tions and vote for your favorites (online vot­ing open until Sep­tem­ber 16th, 2017)
• Overview of the Brain Health Challenge
• Judg­ing Pan­el and Criteria
• 25 Key Resources to Improve Brain Health and Men­tal Health