Technology & Innovation
Non-invasive Transcranial Electrical Stimulation (TES) shows early promise to treat ADHD symptoms in children
Many children with ADHD benefit from medication treatment, behavioral treatment, or their combination, but others do not. In addition, parents are often reluctant to start their child on medication and high quality behavioral treatments are not readily accessible in many areas. The long-term efficacy of these treatments is also less than desirable. Thus, despite these…
Read More“To do nothing is not an option”: The NHS Confederation releases digital mental health whitepaper
The NHS Confederation–the membership organisation for healthcare providers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland– has just released a quite comprehensite 45-page whitepaper titled Maximising the potential of digital in mental health. Some of the highlights: To do nothing is not an option. If we don’t make more progress we miss a key opportunity to make…
Read MoreTime for a universal “exercise prescription” for kids and adults to boost cognition and mental health?
Welcome to a new edition of SharpBrains e‑newsletter, featuring this time a range of brain research findings, tools and controversies plus some brain teasers to challenge your (and our) working memory. #1. Major evidence review supports an “exercise prescription” for most adults to boost mental health “Higher intensity physical activity was associated with greater improvements”…
Read MoreNeurotech, neuroethics and brain data in context: Are “neurorights” the way to mental privacy?
Neurotechnologies – devices that interact directly with the brain or nervous system – were once dismissed as the stuff of science fiction. Not anymore. Several companies are trying to develop brain-computer interfaces, or BCIs, in hopes of helping patients with severe paralysis or other neurological disorders. Entrepreneur Elon Musk’s company Neuralink, for example, recently received…
Read MoreJust-published Apple patent signals aim to measure brain activity using AirPods sensor system
Apple Invents a next-generation AirPods Sensor System that could measure Biosignals and Electrical Activity of a User’s brain (Patently Apple): Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that relates to a next-generation of AirPods Sensor System wherein the housing and tips of AirPods could include a number of active and…
Read MoreVirtual cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) accounts for over 30% of NHS mental health treatments — up from 10% in 2017
Concern as a third of NHS mental health treatments shift online (The Guardian): An Observer analysis of data from private providers, cross-checked against NHS figures, reveals around one in three mental health treatments in England are delivered online, up from one in five in 2019, and one in 10 in 2017. Patients with mild to…
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