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Madrid, 29 de septiembre: ¿Cómo debemos aplicar la neurotecnología en la clínica y en la educación?

September 13, 2022 by Universidad Camilo José Cela

Descrip­ción: La med­i­c­i­na, la psi­cología y la edu­cación están asistien­do a la irrup­ción de una gran can­ti­dad de nuevos enfo­ques gra­cias a la colab­o­ración con otras dis­ci­plinas como la inge­niería, la elec­tróni­ca o la com­putación. Estos nuevos enfo­ques pro­po­nen cri­te­rios y man­eras de abor­dar el neu­rode­sar­rol­lo y su aspec­tos patológi­cos (TND) de man­eras muy difer­entes a lo que se ha venido real­izan­do en las últi­mas décadas.

Her­ramien­tas como la inteligen­cia arti­fi­cial, las inter­faces cere­bro-orde­nador, la tDCS y la real­i­dad vir­tu­al están facil­i­tan­do la creación de un nue­vo aban­i­co de abor­da­jes en el cam­po del tratamien­to de pacientes y otros nuevos enfo­ques se abren camino en la estim­u­lación del neu­rode­sar­rol­lo. Por eso, no podemos evi­tar pre­gun­tarnos: ¿cómo influye la tec­nología al cere­bro humano y más en con­cre­to al cere­bro infan­til? ¿Qué límites, ries­gos y ben­efi­cios tiene el uso de estas tecnologías?

Cuán­do: jueves 29 de sep­tiem­bre de 2022 10:00 – 18:30 CEST [Read more…] about Madrid, 29 de sep­tiem­bre: ¿Cómo debe­mos aplicar la neu­rotec­nología en la clíni­ca y en la educación?

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning, En Español Tagged With: cerebro humano, interfaces cerebro-ordenador, neurodesarrollo, realidad virtual, tDCS

The Do’s and Don’ts of Harnessing Technology (and Anxiety) for Good

February 28, 2022 by SharpBrains

Wel­come to a new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains’ e‑newsletter, fea­tur­ing impor­tant brain & men­tal health news plus a few fun brain teasers to test your rea­son­ing skills and more…

#1. Chal­lenge ahead: Har­ness­ing tech­nol­o­gy for good men­tal health

“Tech­nol­o­gy can not only help us grow out of unhealthy habits, it is also pos­si­ble to expand human men­tal capac­i­ties … although it will be nec­es­sary to ana­lyze “the how and when” of these uses: they must be eth­i­cal­ly sound and ensure that results are ben­e­fi­cial to soci­ety.” — our very own Álvaro Fer­nán­dez, hop­ing you all agree 🙂

If you pre­fer to read the arti­cle in Span­ish: Cómo hac­er de la tec­nología un ali­a­do en el cuida­do de la salud mental

#2. On neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty, young brains, and smartphones

“As with any tool, behav­ior, activ­i­ty, or tech­nol­o­gy, smart phones have the poten­tial to be either a use­ful and high­ly con­struc­tive asset or a destruc­tive and harm­ful diver­sion from life … What is the impact on brain devel­op­ment dur­ing the first 25 years of life when a sig­nif­i­cant part of each day is spent look­ing into a smart phone and the result­ing cog­ni­tive and emo­tion­al experiences?”

#3. Explor­ing links between hear­ing loss, demen­tia and the ‘cog­ni­tive reserve’ — plus the role of hear­ing aids

“Cer­tain types of demen­tia, par­tic­u­lar­ly vas­cu­lar demen­tia, are caused when there is less blood flow reach­ing the brain. This can dam­age our brain cells. Recent stud­ies have also shown that the parts of our brain that process sounds (our audi­to­ry sys­tem) have many blood ves­sels and are vul­ner­a­ble to dam­age … Anoth­er area of research is look­ing at whether hear­ing loss indi­rect­ly affects demen­tia risk by mak­ing it hard­er for peo­ple to stay con­nect­ed. Social iso­la­tion is anoth­er known risk fac­tor for dementia.”

#4. Com­put­er-assist­ed cog­ni­tive behav­ior ther­a­py (CCBT) may out­per­form Treat­ment as Usu­al (TAU) in help­ing patients reduce depres­sion, improve 6‑month remis­sion rates

“The find­ings of this ran­dom­ized clin­i­cal tri­al sug­gest that CCBT with a mod­est amount of clin­i­cian sup­port has poten­tial for wider-spread imple­men­ta­tion as an effec­tive, accept­able, and effi­cient treat­ment for depres­sion in pri­ma­ry care.”

#6. Wear­able EEG mon­i­tor­ing start-up Epi­tel rais­es $12.5M to mar­ket seizure detec­tion system

“It is time that EEGs for the brain become as acces­si­ble as EKGs for the heart to patients through­out the coun­try. For too long essen­tial neu­ro­log­i­cal ser­vices have been inac­ces­si­ble to large parts of our pop­u­la­tion” — Dr. Chaud­ery, Prin­ci­pal at Genoa Ven­tures (co-lead investor)

#7. Otsu­ka and Vir­tu­al Real­i­ty start-up Jol­ly Good sign $43M deal to pro­mote Social Skills Train­ing (SST) ther­a­pies, help­ing schiz­o­phre­nia patients first

“The com­bi­na­tion of SST and a phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal reg­i­men has been proven in stud­ies to reduce the recur­rence of men­tal dis­or­ders, the com­pa­nies said. Their first joint­ly devel­oped pro­gram will be direct­ed toward schiz­o­phre­nia patients, and they’re pre­dict­ing that the immer­sive nature of Jol­ly Good’s VR will make the SST ther­a­py more engag­ing and effec­tive than stan­dard methods.”

#8. Q&A with Dr. Wendy Suzu­ki on the parasym­pa­thet­ic ner­vous sys­tem and har­ness­ing anx­i­ety for good

“Most peo­ple have all heard of the fight-or-flight system—that’s the stress sys­tem, it makes your heart rate go up and you can run away real­ly fast. Well, peo­ple don’t real­ize that through evo­lu­tion in par­al­lel with the fight-or-flight sys­tem evolved an equal and oppo­site part of our ner­vous sys­tem that’s nick­named the “rest-and-digest” part of the ner­vous sys­tem, or parasym­pa­thet­ic ner­vous sys­tem. It’s basi­cal­ly the de-stress­ing part of our ner­vous sys­tem. That is what we need to acti­vate to bring our­selves back to equi­lib­ri­um when we’re in a stress­ful state.”

 

Final­ly, as promised, a few fun brain teasers to test your rea­son­ing skills–and more. Enjoy!

#9. Test your mem­o­ry and rea­son­ing skills with these proverbs

#10. Brain teas­er: Will you fin­ish your the­sis on time?

#11. Did you notice the jump? Good rea­son­ing and prob­lem-solv­ing often requires prop­er atten­tion to detail…

 

Wish­ing you and yours a healthy and safe March,

The Sharp­Brains Team

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Filed Under: Brain Teasers, Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, En Español, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: anxiety, brain, brain-development, cCBT, cognitive, computer-assisted cognitive behavior therapy, dementia, emotional, Epitel, health, hearing aids, Jolly Good, mental capacities, mental health, neuroplasticity, Otsuka, parasympathetic nervous system, technology, wearable EEG, Wendy Suzuki

Brain teasers en español: ¿cuál es el número que falta en el cuarto triángulo?

June 4, 2021 by Caroline Latham

(Same brain teas­er in Eng­lish here)

Es viernes y quizás algunos nece­site­mos un pequeño empu­jón cog­ni­ti­vo para abor­dar el fin de semana…

Aquí va un breve desafío matemáti­co: ¿Qué número que fal­ta en el cuar­to triángulo?

Pattern Recognition Test - Empty Triangle

Avi­so a tod@s esos sharp brains: Sí, puede haber más de una respues­ta … pero asegúrate de que tu solu­ción fun­ciona bien en todos los triángulos!
[Read more…] about Brain teasers en español: ¿cuál es el número que fal­ta en el cuar­to triángulo?

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Filed Under: Brain Teasers, En Español Tagged With: acertijos, brain teaser for adults, Brain Teasers, brain teasers for kids, brain teasers for teens, brain-teaser, cognitivo, desafío matemático, ejercicio cognitivo, triángulo

Tres hábitos de higiene mental para vencer al COVID-19 y crear un futuro más saludable

April 16, 2020 by Alvaro Fernandez

Image: REUTERS/Lee Smith

¿Cuán­tos de nosotros esta­mos exper­i­men­tan­do estos días un cóc­tel de con­fusión, ansiedad y estrés? ¿Cuán­tos inclu­so sen­ti­mos sor­pren­dentes momen­tos de respiro y de apre­cio por lo que ten­emos, por lo que somos?

En una encues­ta pub­li­ca­da el 2 de Abril por la Kaiser Fam­i­ly Foun­da­tion, el 45% de los esta­dounidens­es dice que la cri­sis está per­ju­di­can­do su salud men­tal – más aún, el 19% dice sen­tir un “gran impacto” neg­a­ti­vo. Y es bas­tante posi­ble que esta situación sea peor en país­es como España o Italia, dado el may­or impacto del virus y las estric­tas políti­cas de ais­lamien­to. –> Con­tinúe leyen­do Tres hábitos de higiene men­tal para vencer al COVID-19 y crear un futuro más salud­able en Glob­al Agen­da del Foro Económi­co Mundial.

(Note: Arti­cle avail­able in Eng­lish HERE) [Read more…] about Tres hábitos de higiene men­tal para vencer al COVID-19 y crear un futuro más saludable

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, En Español Tagged With: Cerebro, COVID-19, estrés, higiene mental, salud mental

El Cerebro Que Cura: Descubre la mejor forma de mantener un cerebro sano como fuente de salud

January 21, 2020 by Abante Asesores

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Álvaro Fer­nán­dez, CEO de Sharp­Brains, estu­vo recien­te­mente en Abante para pre­sen­tarnos “El cere­bro que cura: Des­cubre la mejor for­ma de man­ten­er un cere­bro sano como fuente de salud“, el libro que escribió jun­to a Álvaro Pas­cual-Leone, neu­ro­cien­tí­fi­co de la Uni­ver­si­dad de Har­vard, y a David Bartrés-Faz, pro­fe­sor de la Fac­ul­tad de Med­i­c­i­na y Cien­cias de la Salud de la Uni­ver­si­tat de Barcelona. [Read more…] about El Cere­bro Que Cura: Des­cubre la mejor for­ma de man­ten­er un cere­bro sano como fuente de salud

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, En Español Tagged With: Alvaro Pascual-Leone, alvaro-fernandez, Cerebro, David Bartrés-Faz, el cerebro que cura, ikigai, libro, mente, neurocientífico, plasticidad cerebral, salud, sharpbrains

SharpBrains y El Cerebro Que Cura se presentan en Madrid

November 13, 2019 by Abante Asesores

– Vista de la Puer­ta de Alcalá en Madrid, des­de las ofic­i­nas de Abante.

Esta tarde en el #Audi­to­rioA­bante @ssatrustegui habla con Álvaro Fer­nán­dez, uno de los autores de “El cere­bro que cura”. #Con­fer­en­ci­aA­bante #ElCere­bro­Que­Cu­ra pic.twitter.com/P1aaxE6bfO

— aban­teas­esores (@abanteasesores) Novem­ber 11, 2019

[Read more…] about Sharp­Brains y El Cere­bro Que Cura se pre­sen­tan en Madrid

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, En Español Tagged With: Cerebro, cerebro que cura, cerebro sano, estilos de vida, libro, libro cerebro, Madrid, mente, pautas de conducta, salud

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