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On Brain Awareness Week, mental health innovation, tDCS, biofeedback, psychedelics, and more

February 26, 2021 by SharpBrains

Wel­come to a new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains’ e‑newsletter, start­ing with some ideas to get in the mood for Brain Aware­ness Week next month (March 15–21st). May BAW 2021 be a hun­dred times more upbeat than last year’s…

#1. Sev­en brain teasers and a neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty pod­cast to cel­e­brate Brain Aware­ness Week 2021

#2. Imag­ine what this capa­bil­i­ty may mean just a few years from now. Should/ will Google alert Gmail users about their (future) cog­ni­tive sta­tus? Study: Arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence pro­gram iden­ti­fies lin­guis­tic mark­ers that pre­dict, with 70% accu­ra­cy, who gets Alzheimer’s Dis­ease years later

#3. Sim­i­lar to what hap­pened to Thync back in 2016, Halo Neu­ro­science strug­gled to com­mer­cial­ize tDCS as a non-med­ical device and the tech­nol­o­gy is being repur­posed for clin­i­cal use. Neu­ro­mod­u­la­tion devel­op­er Halo Neu­ro­science clos­es its doors; Flow Neu­ro­science acquires assets

#4. Here you have a cou­ple recent meta-analy­ses sug­gest­ing a grow­ing adop­tion in the near future of web-based, and increas­ing­ly per­son­al­ized, inter­ven­tions. Grow­ing research points to expand­ing adop­tion of online cog­ni­tive behav­ioral ther­a­pies, both guid­ed and unguided

#5. “If there is any­thing we’ve seen out of this year, it’s real­ly become that fourth pil­lar of ben­e­fits for every employ­er out there. Every­one has med­ical, den­tal and vision. Men­tal health has now real­ly become that fourth pil­lar of ben­e­fits for all employ­ers.” — Alyson Wat­son, CEO and founder of Mod­ern Health. Four trends accel­er­at­ing men­tal health inno­va­tion in the COVID/ post-COVID era

#6. “Access to men­tal health­care is a human right that shouldn’t be buried by stig­ma, lack of access, or afford­abil­i­ty.” — Oliv­er Har­ri­son, CEO of Koa Health. Dig­i­tal men­tal health start-up Koa Health rais­es €30M to accel­er­ate growth in Europe and the US

#7. “Just as the viral pan­dem­ic has accel­er­at­ed vac­cine devel­op­ment, this glob­al cri­sis has brought togeth­er men­tal health experts from the pub­lic and pri­vate sec­tor around the world to address what is sure­ly a sec­ond pan­dem­ic trig­gered by loss, anx­i­ety, and social iso­la­tion” — Thomas Insel, MD, co-founder of Human­est Care. Sur­vey finds con­cerns AND hope to address grow­ing men­tal health needs due to the covid pandemic

#8. Can biofeed­back-based videogames help chil­dren bet­ter man­age stress? Mag­el­lan Health and Might­i­er secure $2 mil­lion NIMH grant to investigate

#9. “The Organ­i­sa­tion for the Review of Care and Health Apps (ORCHA) has reviewed almost 600 men­tal health apps … only 29.6% meet qual­i­ty thresh­olds” The land­scape of dig­i­tal men­tal health apps: huge unmet needs, qual­i­ty con­cerns, app stores asked to ensure transparency

#10. Final­ly, an idea out there worth explor­ing … Next: Psy­che­del­ic-assist­ed psychotherapy?

Have a healthy and stim­u­lat­ing month of March,

The Sharp­Brains Team

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, SharpBrains Monthly eNewsletter, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: behavioral, biofeedback, Brain Teasers, cognitive, Halo Neuroscience, Humanest Care, Koa Health, mental healthcare, Mightier, Modern Health, neuroplasticity, psychedelics, Psychotherapy, tDCS, therapies, Thync

Large study finds positive yet mixed results from Akili’s digital therapeutic for kids with ADHD

February 25, 2020 by SharpBrains

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Full pub­li­ca­tion of piv­otal tri­al data out­lines Akil­i’s case for FDA reg­u­la­tion (Mobi­Health­News):

“A full tran­script of STARS-ADHD — the piv­otal tri­al of Akili Interactive’s video game-like pedi­atric atten­tion deficit treat­ment — has been pub­lished in The Lancet Dig­i­tal Health jour­nal, pro­vid­ing onlook­ers a clear view of data fuel­ing the dig­i­tal ther­a­peu­tic company’s pend­ing FDA sub­mis­sion [Read more…] about Large study finds pos­i­tive yet mixed results from Akili’s dig­i­tal ther­a­peu­tic for kids with ADHD

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Filed Under: Attention & ADD/ADHD, Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: adhd, ADHD-medication, Akili, Akili Interactive, Akili Interactive Labs, AKL-T01, behavioral, cognitive, digital health, digital therapeutics, pediatric ADHD, Project EVO, TOVA API, treatment, video-games

Growing concern (and hope) about astronauts’ cognitive health during spaceflight

November 12, 2019 by SharpBrains

NASA astro­naut Scott Kel­ly checks out the Microsoft HoloLens aboard a space sta­tion on Feb­ru­ary 20, 2016. (Pho­to by NASA via Get­ty Images)

About the con­cern: Brain MRI scans may help NASA plan safer mis­sions to space (Health Imaging):

“Not a lot is known about cog­ni­tive impair­ment in humans dur­ing space­flight,” Don­na R. Roberts, MD, Med­ical Uni­ver­si­ty of South Carolina’s Depart­ment of Radi­ol­o­gy, said in a state­ment [Read more…] about Grow­ing con­cern (and hope) about astro­nauts’ cog­ni­tive health dur­ing spaceflight

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: astronaut, behavioral, brain-structure, cognitive, Cognitive-impairment, cognitive-performance, MaRS, medical protocol, microgravity, motor skills, NASA, neuroradiology, spaceflight, wellbeing

Apple/ Eli Lilly’s bet: Wearable and mobile consumer devices may well help us detect cognitive impairment and dementia

September 16, 2019 by SharpBrains

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Apple, Eli Lil­ly research whether devices can detect demen­tia signs (Health­care Dive):

“Demen­tia, which affects rough­ly 47 mil­lion peo­ple across the globe, costs $1 tril­lion world­wide, accord­ing to the World Health Orga­ni­za­tion. Ear­ly test­ing for the con­di­tion is spo­radic and, when con­duct­ed, it’s often not sen­si­tive enough to detect ear­ly stages of men­tal decline, cre­at­ing an oppor­tu­ni­ty for tech com­pa­nies like Apple to see whether they can turn a profit.

The “rich, lon­gi­tu­di­nal infor­ma­tion” from wear­able and mobile con­sumer devices can be [Read more…] about Apple/ Eli Lilly’s bet: Wear­able and mobile con­sumer devices may well help us detect cog­ni­tive impair­ment and dementia

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Alzheimers-disease, Apple, behavioral, cognitive decline, dementia, Eli Lilly, Evidation, healthcare, HIPAA, mental-decline, mild-cognitive-impairment, physiological

From Mental Health to Behavioral Health…and back?

February 15, 2018 by SharpBrains

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Know Thy­self: Well-Being and Sub­jec­tive Expe­ri­ence (Cere­brum):

“Ancient Greek philoso­phers were fond of the apho­rism, “know thy­self,” inscribed above the entrance of one of the Tem­ples of Apol­lo at Del­phi. One expres­sion of this tra­di­tion, vari­ably attrib­uted to Socrates and Pla­to, is that “the unex­am­ined life is not worth liv­ing.” Anoth­er, attrib­uted to Aris­to­tle, is “to know thy­self is the begin­ning of wis­dom.” And, accord­ing to Socrates, the path to such self-knowl­edge is through inner reflec­tion, or what we now call introspection.

Thou­sands of years lat­er, pro­fes­sions arose to help peo­ple know them­selves bet­ter [Read more…] about From Men­tal Health to Behav­ioral Health…and back?

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: behavioral, Behavioral Health, cognitive-behavioral, conscious, Consciousness, Emotions, introspection, Mental-Health, mind, pharmaceutical, self-knowledge, subcortical, subjective experience, wisdom

Update: New tools, research and insights to reinvent Brain Health and Mental Health in the Digital Age

November 22, 2016 by SharpBrains


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Time for a new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains’ e‑newsletter, explor­ing a range of tech­nolo­gies, sci­en­tif­ic find­ings and insights for brain health and men­tal health to bet­ter respond to the oppor­tu­ni­ties and chal­lenges ahead.

Hap­py read­ing, and Hap­py Thanksgiving!

New tools:

  • Brain Health in the Dig­i­tal Age (opens 24-slide presentation)
  • Har­ness­ing brain scans to per­son­al­ize autism-relat­ed behav­ioral interventions
  • UNICEF launch­es inter­ac­tive dig­i­tal brain devel­op­ment tool for young children
  • Mobile, data-rich apps to mon­i­tor and pro­mote neu­rocog­ni­tive health

New research:

  • Mind­ful med­i­ta­tion works. Now, how to nav­i­gate the most pop­u­lar options?
  • For good and bad, TV ads pro­mote high­er pre­scrib­ing vol­ume of psy­chi­atric medications
  • Study debunks the “ear­li­er is always bet­ter” myth about brain devel­op­ment and cog­ni­tive training
  • hearing_brain“Could you repeat that?” Study links hear­ing loss to brain aging

New thinking:

  • Improv­ing brain fit­ness lit­er­a­cy in Japan
  • New “bion­ic hybrid neu­ro chip” to improve under­stand­ing of brain func­tion by enabling high-fideli­ty, long-term record­ings of brain cell activity
  • New fund­ing pro­gram announced to pro­mote brain health inno­va­tion and collaboration

Final­ly, we are delight­ed to announce five new excel­lent Speak­ers at the upcom­ing 2016 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: Rein­vent­ing Brain Health in the Dig­i­tal Age (Decem­ber 6–8, 2016):

  • Mary Stu­art, Senior Writer/Analyst at The MedTech Strategist
  • 2016sharpbrainssummit_logoDr. Andrea Seri­no, Head of Neu­ro­science at Mind­Maze
  • Lin­da Raines, CEO of the Men­tal Health Asso­ci­a­tion of Maryland
  • Karen Olsen, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of the Cen­ter for the Future of Pub­lic Education
  • David Coleiro, Part­ner at Strate­gic North

You can explore the Sum­mit Agen­da here, and Reg­is­ter here. Please con­sid­er join­ing us and help rein­vent brain health in the dig­i­tal age!

Thank­ful­ly,

The Sharp­Brains Team

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: behavioral, brain literacy, brain-aging, brain-development, Brain-Fitness, Brain-health, brain-scans, cognitive, Cognitive-Training, digital, health, Mental-Health, neurocognitive, psychiatric

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