Posts Tagged ‘adhd’
Lifestyle Matters: Let’s optimize cognition, health and life in 2024
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…
Read MoreFrom “Eminence-based” to Evidence-based cognitive & mental healthcare: Time for quality and accountability
Welcome to a new edition of SharpBrains’ e‑newsletter, featuring timely brain & mental health news, two excellent new books and a few fun brain teasers. #1. From “Eminence-based” to Evidence-based mental healthcare: Time to focus on quality and accountability “The real challenge is not finding a therapist, it’s finding a therapist who knows how to provide…
Read MoreSeparating brain-healthy wheat from chaff is becoming more urgent by the day
A) New video game company aims to develop therapeutic games (The Verge): Video game-based tools can help with conditions like depression and ADHD, research shows. DeepWell Digital Therapeutics plans to build on those studies. “There was an amazing amount of science that had already been done,” Douglas says. “We started to recognize exactly how therapeutic these games already were.”
Read MoreCanadian study finds causal link between time playing videogames at age 12 and ADHD symptoms at age 13
Recent studies have linked screen time — including video game play — to concerning outcomes in children, including low self-esteem, low life satisfaction, and depressive symptoms. Screen time has also been found to be correlated with symptoms of ADHD in children and adolescents, even when earlier attention difficulties are taken into account. These findings suggest…
Read MoreDigital therapeutics pioneer Akili Interactive plans to go public in mid-2022 at a $1B valuation
Palihapitiya-Led SPAC to Merge With Akili in $1 Billion Deal (Bloomberg): Akili Interactive, a startup that has developed a video game to help treat attention-deficit disorders in kids, has agreed to go public through a merger with one of Chamath Palihapitiya’s blank-check companies. The deal, which confirms a Bloomberg News report, values the combined entity…
Read MoreWelcome to the Ultimate Neuroscience Lab: Your Smartphone
Welcome to a new edition of SharpBrains’ e‑newsletter, featuring this time six scientific reports and industry resources plus a fun illusion. #1. Top 10 Mental Health Innovations to Watch: Special SciAm/ WEF report Hoping you enjoy the great series over at Scientific American and especially #7, titled Welcome to the Ultimate Neuroscience Lab: Your Smartphone,…
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