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

By SharpBrains | February 26, 2021

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…

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

By SharpBrains | February 25, 2020

__ 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…

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

By SharpBrains | September 16, 2019

__________ 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…

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From Mental Health to Behavioral Health…and back?

By SharpBrains | February 15, 2018

___ 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,…

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

By SharpBrains | November 22, 2016

———- 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…

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