Update: 200 common prescription medications increase depression risk

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Dear read­er,

Time for Sharp­Brains e‑newsletter.

It’s been a busy month, once again bring­ing to the fore­front the lim­i­ta­tions of our cur­rent health­care sys­tem and, on the pos­i­tive side, the grow­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties to improve Brain Health and Men­tal Health for all, if we pay atten­tion to (and act on) lat­est research, think­ing and tools.

New research:

• When Health­care ignores Men­tal Health: 200 com­mon pre­scrip­tion med­ica­tions increase depres­sion risk
• Report finds only 35% of Cana­di­an youth get the phys­i­cal activ­i­ty rec­om­mend­ed for brain health
• Study finds train­ing-induced neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty even in patients with chron­ic trau­mat­ic brain injury (TBI)

New thinking:

• Want to feel more Calm, get some Head­space, and prac­tice Mind­ful­ness Daily?
• (Slid­edeck) Why the Future of Brain Enhance­ment and Men­tal Health is Dig­i­tal and Pervasive
• Study finds the lim­its of putting one­self in another’s shoes (instead, ask and listen)

New tools:

• Sleep-focused neu­rotech firm Dreem rais­es $35M from John­son&John­son Inno­va­tion and Bpifrance
• FDA clears Mind­Maze GO neu­rore­ha­bil­i­ta­tion plat­form, eas­ing access to con­tin­ued out­pa­tient therapy
• From Angry Birds to brain map­ping: The Gam­i­fi­ca­tion of Neuroscience

Final­ly, we invite you to tease your mind with these four opti­cal illu­sions. Sur­pris­ing, aren’t they?

Have a great month of July,

The Sharp­Brains Team