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Study: Self-guided sleep app Sleepio, combined with standard care for depression and anxiety, delivers better outcomes than standard care alone

September 27, 2021 by SharpBrains

Study backs ben­e­fit of insom­nia DTx Sleepio on men­tal health (pharmapho­rum):

The study – pub­lished in the jour­nal Behav­iour Research and Ther­a­py – test­ed the Sleepio app devel­oped by dig­i­tal health spe­cial­ist Big Health as an add-on to stan­dard NHS care for anx­i­ety and depres­sion under the improv­ing access to psy­cho­log­i­cal ther­a­pies (IAPT) policy.

Patients who signed up to use Sleepio – a six-week dig­i­tal cog­ni­tive behav­iour­al ther­a­py (CBT) course – achieved sig­nif­i­cant­ly bet­ter improve­ment in symp­toms com­pared to con­trols, with an IAPT recov­ery rate of near­ly 65% ver­sus 58% in the con­trol group. [Read more…] about Study: Self-guid­ed sleep app Sleepio, com­bined with stan­dard care for depres­sion and anx­i­ety, deliv­ers bet­ter out­comes than stan­dard care alone

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: anxiety, app, Behaviour Research and Therapy, Big Health, cognitive behavioural therapy, depression, digital CBT, digital cognitive behavioural therapy, digital health, insomnia, insomnia DTx, medications, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, NHS, NICE, psychological therapies, Sleepio, therapy

Update: The latest research and noninvasive neurotechnologies for brain health and mental fitness

May 29, 2020 by SharpBrains

Time for a new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains’ e‑newsletter!

1. Food for (non­par­ti­san) Thought: Should heads of state and can­di­dates to high office pass a cognitive/ men­tal fit­ness test?

2. A school psy­chol­o­gist shares good tips to sup­port our kids and, yes, man­age our own stress. Three Ss to reduce the stress of “home­school­ing” our kids: Sim­pli­fy, Struc­ture, Sup­port.

3. Wow. Mind­strong Health rais­es $100M to trans­form how we mea­sure and pro­mote men­tal health.

4. Great part­ner­ship! Kaiser Per­ma­nente offers Calm men­tal fit­ness app at no cost to mil­lions of mem­bers.

5. “Just as you can’t self-intro­spect to deter­mine your cho­les­terol, much of the high­est-val­ue infor­ma­tion about our­selves and each oth­er sits out­side our con­scious aware­ness.” — Bryan John­son, Founder and CEO of Ker­nel, as Ker­nel launch­es Neu­ro­science as a Ser­vice (NaaS) built on non-inva­sive brain record­ing tech­nol­o­gy.

6. Fas­ci­nat­ing con­ver­sa­tion on how and why “Prac­tice actu­al­ly changes the phys­i­cal­i­ty of your brain” — Q&A with Rick Han­son on Neu­rod­har­ma, brain sci­ence, per­son­al prac­tice and well-being

7. May this trend con­tin­ue (and for bet­ter rea­sons): Grow­ing inter­est in dig­i­tal men­tal health among insur­ers and med­ical care providers.

8. Par­tic­u­lar­ly promis­ing for mul­ti­ple scle­ro­sis, ocu­lar hyper­ten­sion, dia­betes, and trau­mat­ic brain injury: Portable brain assess­ment device by Head­safe secures 510(k) FDA clear­ance.

9. May a lim­er­ick a day keep the neu­rol­o­gist away?

10. If not a lim­er­ick, per­haps a few brain teasers. Say the months of the year in alpha­bet­i­cal order. Too easy? Well, try doing so back­wards, in reverse alpha­bet­i­cal order. Five quick brain teasers to flex those Atten­tion and Work­ing Mem­o­ry men­tal muscles

11. You have been invit­ed to a fundrais­ing gala at your old col­lege (via Zoom of course) and decide that this black-tie event demands a super white Ital­ian shirt, like the one you bought years ago for your wed­ding. Ready for some quick math? Try this Brain Teas­er: What shirt size you need?

Have a great month of June,

The Sharp­Brains Team

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: app, brain health, Brain Teasers, brain-teaser, Calm, cognitive test, FDA, Headsafe, Kaiser-Permanente, Kernel, mental health, mental-fitness, Mindstrong Health, neurologist, neurotechnologies, Neurotechnology, noninvasive neurotechnologies, school-psychologist, Stress

Kaiser Permanente offers Calm mental fitness app at no cost to millions of members

May 21, 2020 by SharpBrains

Med­i­ta­tion app Calm is now free for Kaiser Per­ma­nen­te’s mil­lions of mem­bers (CNBC):

Kaiser Per­ma­nente is try­ing to give its 12.4 mil­lion mem­bers a lit­tle bit of calm.

Start­ing Tues­day, the health-care provider is allow­ing patients to down­load the Calm med­i­ta­tion app for free as part of a way to help cus­tomers man­age anx­i­ety as they deal with the fall­out from the coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic. Calm is the most-pop­u­lar health and fit­ness app on Google-pow­ered devices and No. 2 on the iPhone, accord­ing to App Annie. Paid sub­scrip­tions nor­mal­ly cost $70 a year … Calm was see­ing surg­ing growth even before the coro­n­avirus forced Amer­i­cans to shel­ter in place and led to sky­rock­et­ing unem­ploy­ment. The San Fran­cis­co-based start-up was val­ued by investors last year at $1 bil­lion, two years after being named Apple’s app of the year back in 2017. The app has been down­loaded over 80 mil­lion times.

[Read more…] about Kaiser Per­ma­nente offers Calm men­tal fit­ness app at no cost to mil­lions of members

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: app, Apple, Calm, coronavirus pandemic, iPhone, Kaiser-Permanente, meditation, meditation app, mental-fitness, neurotechnologies, Neurotechnology

Portable brain assessment device by Headsafe secures 510(k) FDA clearance

May 14, 2020 by SharpBrains

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FDA Clears Nurocheck, Portable Device to Quick­ly Assess Brain Health (MS News Today):

“A portable device that can quick­ly mea­sure elec­tri­cal activ­i­ty in the brain and relay it to doc­tors via a smart­phone app, called the Nurochek sys­tem, has been cleared by the Unit­ed States Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion (FDA) for use as a med­ical device. [Read more…] about Portable brain assess­ment device by Head­safe secures 510(k) FDA clearance

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: 510(k) clearance, app, brain, brain health technology, brain-assessment, EEG, electrical activity, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, Headsafe, neurological testing, Nurochek, portable, smartphone

Big Ten Conference announces “Mental Health and Wellness Cabinet” and Calm app rollout

May 11, 2020 by SharpBrains

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Big Ten Con­fer­ence Announces Men­tal Health Ini­tia­tives (press release):

“The Big Ten Con­fer­ence for­mal­ly announced today, in con­junc­tion with Men­tal Health Aware­ness Month, the for­ma­tion of the Big Ten Men­tal Health and Well­ness Cab­i­net, which includes rep­re­sen­ta­tives from all 14 Big Ten insti­tu­tions, as well as sport affil­i­ate mem­bers Johns Hop­kins (women’s and men’s lacrosse) and Notre Dame (men’s hock­ey). In con­junc­tion with today’s announce­ment, the Big Ten Con­fer­ence is pleased to share that all Big Ten stu­dent-ath­letes, coach­es, full-time mem­bers of uni­ver­si­ty ath­let­ic depart­ments and con­fer­ence staff mem­bers will [Read more…] about Big Ten Con­fer­ence announces “Men­tal Health and Well­ness Cab­i­net” and Calm app rollout

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Peak Performance, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: app, Big Ten Conference, Calm, lower stress, mental fitness app, mental health, Mental Health Awareness Month, mental-fitness

Mixed reactions on the development of digital biomarkers and growth of Mindstrong Health

November 12, 2018 by SharpBrains

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(More on the pos­i­tive side, at MIT Tech­nol­o­gy Review) The smart­phone app that can tell you’re depressed before you know it your­self:

“There are about 45 mil­lion peo­ple in the US alone with a men­tal ill­ness, and those ill­ness­es and their cours­es of treat­ment can vary tremen­dous­ly. But there is some­thing most of those peo­ple have in com­mon: a smart­phone [Read more…] about Mixed reac­tions on the devel­op­ment of dig­i­tal bio­mark­ers and growth of Mind­strong Health

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: app, bioethics, brain disorders, chronic, chronic brain disorders, cognition, depression, digital biomarkers, emotional-health, machine-learning, Mental-Health, mental-illness, Mindstrong Health, mood-prediction, smartphone

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