Posts Tagged ‘addiction’
Ohio joins Indiana and Kentucky in funding Pear Therapeutics’ digital addiction treatments
Ohio is third state to fund Pear’s digital therapeutics to tackle addiction (pharmaforum): The company has been pushing for more reimbursement of its three marketed DTx products in the US following a first FDA approval in 2017. Pear said that the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (OhioMHAS) and RecoveryOhio are providing access to…
Read MoreUW Medicine creates new Institute for Brain Health Solutions focused on cognitive aging, brain wellness and mental health
__________ $50 million gift is foundation for brain disorders research (UW press release): “UW Medicine is creating the Garvey Institute for Brain Health Solutions to develop effective new treatments for brain disorders, such as depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, addiction and Alzheimer’s disease. The foundational $50 million gift to establish the institute was made by local…
Read MoreOhio Opioid Technology Challenge funds program testing neurofeedback-based brain training to reduce cravings and battle opioid addiction
_______ Battling Addiction With Brainpower (University of Dayton press release): “The University of Dayton Research Institute has won a $10,000 Ohio Opioid Technology Challenge award for a program that will teach people with opioid addictions how to reduce their cravings by regaining control of their brains. “Using neurofeedback, we’ll work with our volunteers to help…
Read MoreSurvey of key scientific, technological and investment trends revolutionizing Brain Health in our Digital Age
—– Last year I got very interested in the functioning of the human brain and the science behind mindfulness and learning [1], so was quite excited to attend the SharpBrains Virtual Summit [2] in December, indulging in the latest trends in applied neuroscience and digital innovation. The Summit focused on the theme of reinventing brain health in the digital…
Read MoreQ: What do people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, addiction, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and anxiety have in common? A: A brain with similar gray-matter loss
. Different mental disorders cause same brain-matter loss, study finds (press release): “A meta-analysis of 193 brain-imaging studies shows similar gray-matter loss in the brains of people with diagnoses as different as schizophrenia, depression and addiction…The findings call into question a longstanding tendency to distinguish psychiatric disorders chiefly by their symptoms rather than their underlying…
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