Study: Consumer wearable devices tend to measure some metrics well (heart rate, cardiorespiratory fitness) but others not so well (energy expenditure, sleep quality)

By The Conversation | September 4, 2024 |

Back in 2010, Gary Wolf, then the edi­tor of Wired mag­a­zine, deliv­ered a TED talk in Cannes called “the quan­ti­fied self”. It was about what he termed a “new fad” among tech enthu­si­asts. These ear­ly adopters were using gad­gets to mon­i­tor every­thing from their phys­i­o­log­i­cal data to their mood, and even the num­ber of nappies…

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Otsuka America launches new unit focused on digital therapeutics, AI and mental health

By SharpBrains | June 10, 2024 |

Otsu­ka defies dig­i­tal health down­turn with new com­pa­ny (MedTech­Dive): Otsu­ka Amer­i­ca, a sub­sidiary of the Japan­ese drug and device mak­er, this month launched a new com­pa­ny focused on dig­i­tal health. The firm, called Otsu­ka Pre­ci­sion Health, will roll out its first prod­uct this sum­mer, a pre­scrip­tion dig­i­tal ther­a­peu­tic for major depres­sive dis­or­der. San­ket Shah, who…

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Brain Health in 2030: Navigating Neuroplasticity & the Digital Health Market

By SharpBrains | January 23, 2024

Brain Health in 2030: Nav­i­gat­ing Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty & the Dig­i­tal Health Mar­ket from Sharp­Brains Keynote deliv­ered by Álvaro Fer­nán­dez, CEO of Sharp­Brains, dur­ing cor­po­rate retreat. Key mes­sage: Our very human brains and minds are the most sophis­ti­cat­ed tech­nol­o­gy at our dis­pos­al, so we should invest more time learn­ing about how they work and har­ness­ing neu­ro­­plas­tic­i­­ty-based methods…

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Trend: Large US employers deploy apps, AI chatbots, other digital tools to boost brain & mental health at work

By SharpBrains | January 9, 2024

Employ­ers Are Offer­ing a New Work­er Ben­e­fit: Well­ness Chat­bots (The Wall Street Jour­nal): More work­ers feel­ing anx­ious, stressed or blue have a new place to go for men­­tal-health help: a dig­i­tal app. Chat­bots that hold ther­a­pist-like con­ver­sa­tions and well­ness apps that deliv­er depres­sion and oth­er diag­noses or iden­ti­fy peo­ple at risk of self-harm are snow­balling across…

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Lifestyle Matters: Let’s optimize cognition, health and life in 2024

By SharpBrains | December 27, 2023

Wel­come to a new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains e‑newsletter, fea­tur­ing fas­ci­nat­ing research find­ings on lifestyle, pro­tec­tive brain struc­tures, Inter­net access, men­tal health, brain imag­ing, and more. #1. Lifestyle mat­ters: What we can do in 2024 to opti­mize cog­ni­tion and life, delay­ing cog­ni­tive prob­lems even demen­tia “Actor Chris Hemsworth…watched his grand­fa­ther live with Alzheimer’s and is mak­ing lifestyle…

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Study doesn’t find evidence to link internet access with poorer psychological well-being and mental health

By SharpBrains | December 7, 2023

Is the inter­net bad for men­tal health? What the lat­est study real­ly means. (Mash­able): … Enter a study pub­lished Tues­day by researchers in the jour­nal Clin­i­cal Psy­cho­log­i­cal Sci­ence, which tried but did not suc­ceed in find­ing a com­pelling link between inter­net access and poor men­tal health and well-being. Busi­ness Insid­er, for exam­ple, declared that the…

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