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FDA clears first videogame to be prescribed to kids with ADHD: EndeavorRx by Akili Interactive Labs

June 18, 2020 by SharpBrains

Screen­shot of EndeavorRx

In a land­mark deci­sion, FDA green­lights a video game for kids with ADHD (STAT):

The Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion on Mon­day for the first time gave a green light to a game-based ther­a­peu­tic: a video game meant to be pre­scribed to kids with ADHD.

The game, known as Endeav­or­Rx and devel­oped by Boston-based Akili Inter­ac­tive Labs, can now be mar­ket­ed as a way to improve atten­tion func­tion in kids with ADHD as mea­sured by com­put­er­ized test­ing. Physi­cians can pre­scribe it to chil­dren between the ages of 8 and 12 who have an ADHD diag­no­sis and have demon­strat­ed an issue with attention.

The FDA’s move is a land­mark deci­sion in the emerg­ing dig­i­tal ther­a­peu­tics sec­tor: In addi­tion to being the first game to be mar­ket­ed as a ther­a­py for any type of con­di­tion, Endeav­or­Rx is the first dig­i­tal ther­a­peu­tic meant to improve symp­toms asso­ci­at­ed with ADHD, the FDA’s announce­ment said…The game was born in the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, San Fran­cis­co lab of neu­ro­sci­en­tist Adam Gaz­za­ley, and was licensed out by Akili, which pol­ished and test­ed the game in clin­i­cal tri­als. Akili spent the past two years wait­ing on a reg­u­la­to­ry deci­sion from the FDA.

[Read more…] about FDA clears first videogame to be pre­scribed to kids with ADHD: Endeav­or­Rx by Akili Inter­ac­tive Labs

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: 510(k), Adam Gazzaley, adhd, Akili Interactive Labs, computerized testing, De Novo, digital therapeutics, EndeavorRx, FDA, game-based therapeutic, TOVA, videogame

Fast Forward to 2040: How to prepare for the new era in brain enhancement that will change the way we think, work, and heal

March 19, 2020 by Tan Le

Decades from now when our aug­ment­ed brains have enhanced our cog­ni­tive func­tion and trans­formed near­ly every aspect of our lives, many of us will look back and won­der why we didn’t do more to pre­pare for these inevitable changes. Gov­ern­ment lead­ers may grap­ple with the run­away effects of AI and brain enhance­ment on geopol­i­tics. Com­pa­nies that fail to incor­po­rate neu­rotech­nolo­gies and BCI into their oper­a­tional flow could lose sig­nif­i­cant mar­ket share and be forced to scram­ble in an attempt to regain a foothold in an indus­try they once dominated.

Work­ers who don’t heed the warn­ings to re-skill or upskill may find them­selves out of a job as entire indus­tries dis­ap­pear. Grad­u­at­ing col­lege stu­dents may dis­cov­er their field of study is no longer rel­e­vant in the busi­ness world, leav­ing them unpre­pared for the chang­ing job mar­ket. Tech inno­va­tors could be caught up in fierce com­pe­ti­tion to snap up employ­ees from a very lim­it­ed tal­ent pool, dri­ving up the cost of inno­va­tion and ham­per­ing its devel­op­ment. And every­day cit­i­zens may be wrestling with the unex­pect­ed con­se­quences of unin­ten­tion­al­ly giv­ing away the rights to their neur­al data.

Rest assured, it doesn’t have to be this way. [Read more…] about Fast For­ward to 2040: How to pre­pare for the new era in brain enhance­ment that will change the way we think, work, and heal

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Peak Performance, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Adam Gazzaley, AI, book, brain, brain-enhancement, brainpower, cognitive, cognitive-function, Ed Boyden, Education & Lifelong Learning, enhance the brain, Fourth Industrial Revolution, heal, healthcare, human-brain, insurance, memory-boosting, Mindstrong, neuro-data, NeuroGeneration, neurotechnologies, Neurotechnology, non-invasive neurotechnologies, non-invasive neurotechnology, policymakers, retraining, STEAM, think, Tom Insel, WEF Future of Jobs, work

Meet 40 Experts and Innovators shaping Brain Health & Enhancement on December 5–7th, at the 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit

October 11, 2017 by SharpBrains

We are proud to announce these 40 con­firmed Sum­mit Speak­ers, Chairs and Judges at the 2017 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit on Decem­ber 5–7th. What an incred­i­ble brain trust shap­ing the future of brain health and enhancement!

Here are just a few:

Dr. Adam Gazzaley, Professor of Neurology and Founding Director of Neuroscape at UCSF

Dr. Gaz­za­ley is a fac­ul­ty mem­ber in the Neu­rol­o­gy, Phys­i­ol­o­gy and Psy­chi­a­try depart­ments, and Direc­tor of a cog­ni­tive neu­ro­science lab­o­ra­to­ry con­duct­ing research on the neur­al mech­a­nisms of atten­tion and mem­o­ry. Dr. Gaz­za­ley is also co-founder and Chief Sci­ence Advi­sor of Akili Inter­ac­tive Labs, a com­pa­ny devel­op­ing ther­a­peu­tic video games, and co-founder and Chief Sci­en­tist of JAZZ Ven­ture Part­ners, a ven­ture cap­i­tal firm invest­ing in expe­ri­en­tial tech­nol­o­gy to improve human performance.

Dr. Adam Haim, Chief of the Clinical Trials Operations and
Biostatistics Branch at the NIMH

Dr. Haim over­sees the Small Busi­ness Inno­va­tion Research (SBIR) and Small Busi­ness Tech­nol­o­gy Trans­fer (STTR) Pro­grams at the Nation­al Insti­tute of Men­tal Health (NIMH). Both pro­grams help small busi­ness­es fund R&D with strong poten­tial for tech­nol­o­gy com­mer­cial­iza­tion, and a sig­nif­i­cant por­tion of their cur­rent grant port­fo­lio is focused on the devel­op­ment and eval­u­a­tion of mHealth inter­ven­tions and dig­i­tal health technology.

Alexandra Morehouse

Alexandra Morehouse, CMO of Banner Health

Alexan­dra M. More­house is Senior Vice Pres­i­dent & Chief Mar­ket­ing Offi­cer for Ban­ner Health, one of the nation’s largest non­prof­it health sys­tems. Pri­or to Ban­ner Health, she was the Vice Pres­i­dent of Brand Man­age­ment at Kaiser Per­ma­nente, and CMO of AAA. She has served on the boards of the Har­vard Busi­ness School Com­mu­ni­ty Part­ners, Snap­Fish, Yer­ba Bue­na Cen­ter for the Arts, ODC Dance, and UC Davis.

Dr. Alison Fenney, Executive Director of the Neurotechnology Industry Organization (NIO)

Dr. Fen­ney runs the Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy Indus­try Orga­ni­za­tion, a glob­al trade asso­ci­a­tion rep­re­sent­ing com­pa­nies involved in neu­ro­science, brain research insti­tutes and patient advo­ca­cy groups. Pri­or to NIO, Ali­son was Man­ag­er of Indus­try Rela­tions at the Ontario Brain Insti­tute (OBI) in Cana­da, and also worked in Equi­ty Research at Bloom Bur­ton & Co.

Álvaro Fernández, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of SharpBrains

Álvaro Fer­nán­dez, a mem­ber of the World Eco­nom­ic Forum’s Coun­cil on the Future of Human Enhance­ment, runs Sharp­Brains, an inde­pen­dent mar­ket research firm track­ing health and per­for­mance appli­ca­tions of brain sci­ence. Mr. Fer­nan­dez is the co-author of “The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness: How to Opti­mize Brain Health and Per­for­mance at Any Age”, and the Edi­tor-in-chief of Sharp­Brains’ mar­ket report on Per­va­sive Neurotechnology.

 

For more, here you can Meet 40 Experts and Inno­va­tors at the fron­tier of Brain Health & Enhance­ment.

 

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Filed Under: Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Adam Gazzaley, Adam Haim, alexandra morehouse, Alison Fenney, alvaro-fernandez, Banner Health, brain-enhancement, Brain-health, Neurotechnology, NIMH, NIO, sharpbrains, UCSF

Raising awareness about the distracted mind (PBS special)

March 7, 2013 by Dr. Adam Gazzaley

DistractedMindI feel it is crit­i­cal that sci­en­tists make an effort to trans­late their research dis­cov­er­ies into a for­mat that is under­stand­able and mean­ing­ful to the gen­er­al pub­lic. They should also, at least on occa­sion, step beyond detailed descrip­tions of lab­o­ra­to­ry results and spec­u­late on how their find­ings inform the big­ger pic­ture and impact people’s lives. This has nev­er been more impor­tant than it is it right now, in this time of dra­mat­i­cal­ly reduced sci­ence fund­ing. In the PBS-spon­sored spe­cial, The Dis­tract­ed Mind, I try to accom­plish this by inte­grat­ing mate­r­i­al from dozens of [Read more…] about Rais­ing aware­ness about the dis­tract­ed mind (PBS special)

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: Adam Gazzaley, attention, brain, distracted, memory, mind, PBS, PBS special

Brain fitness meets HRV and EEG biometrics and neuroinformatics

September 27, 2012 by Yann Renard

As an active par­tic­i­pant in the Open­ViBE project (a soft­ware plat­form to design, test and use Brain-Com­put­er Inter­faces), in sci­en­tif­ic as well as tech­ni­cal capac­i­ties, I have long been focused on ways to process, ana­lyze and put brain sig­nals to prac­ti­cal use. When I start­ed read­ing on the sub­ject of brain fit­ness a few years ago, I rec­og­nized the poten­tial to enhance a vari­ety of brain train­ing approach­es, from med­i­ta­tion to cog­ni­tive train­ing, by deploy­ing [Read more…] about Brain fit­ness meets HRV and EEG bio­met­rics and neuroinformatics

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Peak Performance, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Adam Gazzaley, behavior, biofeedback, biometrics, brain health assessments, brain signals, Brain-Computer Interfaces, Brain-Fitness, Brain-Training, cognition, Cognitive-Training, data, EEG, electro-cardiography, electro-encephalography, emotional-regulation, Emotiv, Emotiv EPOC, heart-rate-variability, innovation, meditation, MyCalmBeat, Neurofeedback, Neuroinformatics, neuroplasticity, neuropsychological, NeuroSky, OpenViBE, Robert Bilder, Sandra Chapman, UCLA, UCSF

Invitation to SharpBrains Summit — Technology for Cognitive Health and Performance

November 10, 2009 by Alvaro Fernandez

We are excit­ed to invite you to the first vir­tu­al, glob­al Sharp­Brains Sum­mit (Jan­u­ary 18–20th, 2010). The Sharp­Brains Sum­mit will fea­ture a sharpbrains_summit_logo_webdream team of over 25 speak­ers who are lead­ers in indus­try and research from 7 coun­tries, to dis­cuss emerg­ing research, tools and best prac­tices for cog­ni­tive health and per­for­mance. This inau­gur­al event will expose health and insur­ance providers, devel­op­ers, inno­va­tors at For­tune 500 com­pa­nies, investors and researchers, to the oppor­tu­ni­ties, part­ner­ships, trends, and stan­dards of the rapid­ly evolv­ing cog­ni­tive fit­ness field.

Reg­is­ter Today

Learn more and reg­is­ter Here today, at dis­count­ed ear­ly-bird rates, to receive these benefits:

  • Learn: Full access to all Con­fer­ence live ses­sions, and Down­load­able Record­ings and Handouts
  • See: lat­est tech­nolo­gies and prod­ucts dur­ing Expo Day
  • Con­nect and Dis­cuss: become a mem­ber of the Sharp­Brains Net­work for Brain Fit­ness Inno­va­tion (mem­bers-only LinkedIn Group) through the end of 2010, access online chats dur­ing the sum­mit, meet oth­er reg­is­trants in your city
  • Under­stand the Big Pic­ture: access 10 Research Exec­u­tive Briefs pre­pared by lead­ing scientists

On top of those ear­ly-bird dis­counts, we offer an addi­tion­al 15% dis­count for Sharp­Brains read­ers who want Reg­u­lar Admis­sion. Dis­count code: sharp2010. You can reg­is­ter Here.

Agenda/ Speak­ers

Monday, January 18th, 2010:

(Pre­lim­i­nary sched­ule, US Pacif­ic Time)

8–9.15am. Cog­ni­tion & Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty: The New Health­care Frontier

  • Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, SharpBrains
  • David White­house, OptumHealth Behav­ioral Solutions
  • William Reich­man, Baycrest
  • P Murali Doraiswamy, Duke University

9.30–11am. Tools for Safer Dri­ving: The Oppor­tu­ni­ty with Teenagers and Adults

  • Steven Aldrich, Posit Science
  • Shlo­mo Breznitz, CogniFit
  • Jer­ri Edwards, Uni­ver­si­ty of South Florida
  • Peter Chris­tian­son, Young Dri­vers of Canada

Noon‑1.30pm. Baby Boomers and Beyond: Main­tain­ing Cog­ni­tive Vitality

  • Kunal Sarkar, Lumos Labs
  • Eliz­a­beth Zelin­s­ki, USC Davis School of Geron­tol­ogy [Read more…] about Invi­ta­tion to Sharp­Brains Sum­mit — Tech­nol­o­gy for Cog­ni­tive Health and Performance

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Filed Under: Attention & ADD/ADHD, Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Adam Gazzaley, Albert “Skip” Rizzo, Albert-Einstein-College-of-Medicine, alvaro-fernandez, Attention Control Systems, baby-boomers, Baycrest, brain fitness summit, Brain-Resource, Center for Technology and Aging, cogmed, cognifit, cognitive health assessments, cognitive technology, cognitive-health, cognitive-performance, cognitive-vitality, Columbia-University, Dakim, Dan-Michel, David Whitehouse, Duke-University, EDGE Innovation Network, Elizabeth-Zelinski, Elkhonon-Goldberg, emotional health assessments, Evian-Gordon, Games-for-Health, H-STAR, happyneuron, Holly Jimison, home health, Jerri-Edwards, Jesse Wright, Jonas Jendi, Joshua-Steinerman, Karolinska-Institute, Keith Wesnes, Kenneth Kosik, Kunal-Sarkar, Lisa Schoonerman, lumos-labs, MaRS Venture Group, MediaX, medical home, medicine, Michael-Merzenich, Michel Noir, Misha-Pavel, Montefiore-Medical-Center, neurocognition, Neuropsychology, neuroscience, Neurotechnology-Industry-Organization, NIO, Norwest-Venture-Partners, OHSU, OptumHealth Behavioral Solutions, Oregon Health & Science University, P Murali Doraiswamy, Peter-Christianson, Posit-Science, Public-Health-Institute, Richard Levinson, SCAN Foundation, scientific-brain-training, Serious Games Initiative, sharpbrains, SharpBrains Summit, Shlomo-Breznitz, Stanford MediaX, Steven Aldrich, technology, Tim-Chang, Torkel-Klingberg, UC Santa Barbara, UCSF, United-BioSource-Corporation, University of Louisville, University of South Florida, USC, USC Davis School of Gerontology, Veronika Litinski, vibrantbrains, William-Reichman, Yaakov-Stern, Young-Drivers-of-Canada

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