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Innovative brain-based partnerships to improve health and life at scale

January 14, 2016 by SharpBrains

Inno­v­a­tive part­ner­ships to improve health and life at scale from Sharp­Brains

In the grow­ing and rapid­ly evolv­ing cat­e­gory of neu­ro and cog­ni­tive tech­nolo­gies, there are mul­ti­ple oppor­tu­ni­ties for devel­op­ers to part­ner with large-scale orga­ni­za­tions look­ing for new ways to improve [Read more…] about Inno­v­a­tive brain-based part­ner­ships to improve health and life at scale

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Bayer, brain-based, cognifit, cognitive technology, Freer Logic, Jaguar Land Rover, Lumosity, Microsoft, neurotech, Neurotechnology, Panasonic, partnerships, sharpbrains, UCSF

Nationwide Insurance’s Kath­leen Herath on Brain-Based Corporate Wellness Initiatives

May 30, 2012 by SharpBrains

Kath­leen will run an edu­ca­tion­al work­shop on How Nation­wide Insur­ance rolled-out a Brain-based Cor­po­rate Well­ness Ini­tia­tive. An in-depth case study out­lin­ing busi­ness ratio­nale, ven­dor selec­tion, pilot test and roll-out, and return-on-invest­ment, at the upcom­ing 2012 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (June 7–14th, 2012).

Kath­leen Herath is the Asso­ciate Vice Pres­i­dent Health & Pro­duc­tiv­ity at Nation­wide Insur­ance. Kath­leen Herath, RN, BSN CRRN, over­sees the Health and Pro­duc­tiv­ity strat­egy [Read more…] about Nation­wide Insurance’s Kath­leen Herath on Brain-Based Cor­po­rate Well­ness Initiatives

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: brain-based, corporate-wellness, Nationwide Insurance, productivity, wellness

Dr. C. Shawn Green on Training Conditions For Video Games to Result in Real Brain-based Benefits

May 21, 2012 by SharpBrains

Dr. Green will dis­cuss the Train­ing Con­di­tions For Video Games to Result in Real Brain-based Ben­e­fits, at the upcom­ing 2012 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (June 7–14th, 2012).

Dr. C. Shawn Green is the Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor at Uni­ver­sity of Wis­con­sin-Madi­son. Dr. Green’s [Read more…] about Dr. C. Shawn Green on Train­ing Con­di­tions For Video Games to Result in Real Brain-based Benefits

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Filed Under: Technology & Innovation Tagged With: action-video-games, brain-based, Brain-Training, cognitive learning, Shawn Green, video-games, visual-processing

SharpBrains Council Monthly Insights: How will we assess, enhance and repair cognition across the lifespan?

November 18, 2010 by SharpBrains

When you think of how the PC has altered the fab­ric of soci­ety, per­mit­ting instant access to infor­ma­tion and automat­ing process­es beyond our wildest dreams, it is instruc­tive to con­sid­er that much of this progress was dri­ven by Moore’s law. Halv­ing the size of semi­con­duc­tor every 18 months catal­ysed an expo­nen­tial accel­er­a­tion in performance.

Why is this sto­ry rel­e­vant to mod­ern neu­ro­science and the work­ings of the brain? Because trans­for­ma­tive tech­no­log­i­cal progress aris­es out of choice and the actions of indi­vid­u­als who see poten­tial for change, and we may well be on the verge of such progress. [Read more…] about Sharp­Brains Coun­cil Month­ly Insights: How will we assess, enhance and repair cog­ni­tion across the lifespan?

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: AARP, aging, awards, BBC, brain-based, brain-computer interface, brain-fitness-training, Brain-health, Brain-Training, CBT, clinical-trials, cogmed, cognitive-functioning, cognitive-health, Cognitive-Training, Dakim, DHA, driving, emotional functioning, health-systems, HR departments, HRV, innovation, insurers, Lumosity, Marbles, mental capital, Mental-Health, Moore's law, National-Academy-of-Sciences, National-Institute-of-Health, nature, Neuropsychology, neuroscience, NovaVision, occupational health, Pearson, pharma, poineers, Posit-Science, PTSD, retirement-communities, schools, seniors providers, Serco, sports clubs, sports-concussions, UCLA, Ultrasis, US Navy, USA-Hockey, workplace, Zeo

Technology as the missing link to enable a brain-based model of brain care: interview with Dr. John Docherty

July 20, 2010 by SharpBrains

Dr. John Docher­ty is an Adjunct Pro­fes­sor of Psy­chi­a­try at the Weill Med­ical Col­lege, Cor­nell Uni­ver­si­ty, Direc­tor of Post Grad­u­ate Edu­ca­tion there, and Chief Med­ical Offi­cer of Brain Resource. Trained as a clin­i­cal research fel­low in neu­ropsy­chophar­ma­col­o­gy at NIMH, he lat­er returned as Chief of the Psy­choso­cial Treat­ments Research Branch, respon­si­ble for all fed­er­al­ly sup­port­ed psy­choso­cial treat­ment research in men­tal health nation­wide. He over­saw the land­mark Nation­al Col­lab­o­ra­tive Study of the Treat­ment of Depres­sion and served as a mem­ber and Chair­man for over 10 years on the NIMH and then NIDA Treat­ment Research IRGs. Dr. Docher­ty has wide expe­ri­ence in suc­cess­ful­ly imple­ment­ing inno­va­tion in both clin­i­cal oper­a­tions and man­aged health care. He found­ed North­east Psy­chi­atric Asso­ciates in 1985. As Nation­al Med­ical Direc­tor for Nation­al Med­ical Enter­pris­es, he over­saw med­ical con­trol and qual­i­ty improve­ment in 74 hos­pi­tals in 34 states. He was the Exec­u­tive Vice-Pres­i­dent and Chief Med­ical Offi­cer for Mer­it Behav­ioral Care, which then cov­ered 30 mil­lion peo­ple. In 1998, he found­ed Com­pre­hen­sive Neu­ro­Science (CNS). Its Care Man­age­ment Tech­nolo­gies are cur­rent­ly imple­ment­ed in 17 state Med­ic­aid plans. Dr Docher­ty has received numer­ous hon­ors and awards and has authored over 100 sci­en­tif­ic publications.

(Edi­tor’s note: this inter­view with Dr. John Docher­ty was orig­i­nal­ly pub­lished in Sharp­Brains’ mar­ket report Trans­form­ing Brain Health with Dig­i­tal Tools to Assess, Enhance and Treat Cog­ni­tion across the Lifes­pan, pub­lished in July 2010)

Alvaro Fer­nan­dez: Dr. Docher­ty, it is a plea­sure to be with you today to dis­cuss the main theme of Sharp­Brains’ 2010 mar­ket report – how the con­ver­gence of sci­en­tif­ic find­ings and tech­nol­o­gy plat­forms and tools is reshap­ing how as a soci­ety and as indi­vid­u­als we will take care of cog­ni­tion and men­tal well­ness along the life­course, giv­ing birth to the emerg­ing dig­i­tal brain health and fit­ness mar­ket. Can you first briefly dis­cuss your career tra­jec­to­ry and your cur­rent role at Brain Resource?

Dr. John Docher­ty: Sure. The main theme of my work since the 1960s has remained the same, “How do we put knowl­edge into effec­tive use to improve men­tal health?” Over the last cen­tu­ry, med­i­cine made tremen­dous progress in gen­er­at­ing sci­en­tif­ic and clin­i­cal knowl­edge. Basic research dis­cov­ery sci­ence and clin­i­cal treat­ment devel­op­ment sci­ence have made great progress. With­in Psy­chi­a­try there was stan­dard set­ting advance in the 1960’s through the NIMH-VA coop­er­a­tive stud­ies to the method­ol­o­gy of assess­ing the effi­ca­cy of psy­chophar­ma­co­log­i­cal drugs. This work estab­lished prin­ci­ples adopt­ed for the study of med­ica­tions in the oth­er areas of med­i­cine. The study of psy­chother­a­py, how­ev­er, lagged in devel­op­ment. In my role of Chief of the Psy­choso­cial Treat­ments Branch of the NIMH , I helped con­tribute to the advance of that work by sup­port­ing the efforts of an extra­or­di­nary group of indi­vid­u­als led by Irene Waskow who car­ried out the TDCRP. This study estab­lished the method­olo­gies that made pos­si­ble the effec­tive sci­en­tif­ic study of the effi­ca­cy of psy­chother­a­pies. The evi­dence base and of such treat­ments as CBT, DBT, Moti­va­tion­al Enhance­ment Treat­ment and oth­er evi­dence-based psy­chother­a­pies derives direct­ly from this study and its sem­i­nal influ­ence. This was a con­tri­bu­tion to the sci­ence of Clin­i­cal Treat­ment Devel­op­ment research.

I would say that my major inter­est, how­ev­er, has been in the next step, the sci­ence of knowl­edge trans­fer. There has been and remains a long and cost­ly (in terms par­tic­u­lar­ly of unnec­es­sary suf­fer­ing) lag between the devel­op­ment of new knowl­edge and its com­mon and effec­tive use in practice.

In order the help the field moved for­ward, I have worked for the last 20 years in the devel­op­ment and imple­men­ta­tion of meth­ods to effec­tive­ly trans­fer knowl­edge into prac­tice. [Read more…] about Tech­nol­o­gy as the miss­ing link to enable a brain-based mod­el of brain care: inter­view with Dr. John Docherty

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: assessment, Behavioral Care, brain health assessment, brain-based, brain-care, brain-function, Brain-health, Brain-Resource, brain-wellness, Chief Medical Officer, cognition, cognitive remediation, cognitive-behavioral-therapy, cognitive-enhancement, cognitive-reserve, cognitive-therapy, Comprehensive NeuroScience, Cornell University, digital, digital technology, disorders, Expert Consensus, John Docherty, knowledge transfer, lifespan, Medicaid, Mental-Health, mental-wellness, Merit Behavioral Care, neuro-plasticity, neurocognitive, neuroplasticity, neuropsychologist, Neuropsychology, neuroscience, NIMH, psychopharmacological, psychosocial, Psychosocial Treatments, self-regulation, technology, WebNeuro, Working-memory

Digital Games for Physical, Cognitive and Behavioral Health

November 5, 2009 by Alvaro Fernandez

The Robert Wood John­son Foun­da­tion (RWJF) just announced more than 200px-Dance_Dance_Revolution_Extreme_arcade_machine_left_side_stage$1.85 mil­lion in grants for research teams to study how dig­i­tal games can improve play­ers’ health behav­iors and out­comes (both brain-based and behavioral).

The press release: Nine Lead­ing Research Teams Select­ed to Study How Dig­i­tal Games Improve Play­ers’ Health

  • “Dig­i­tal games are inter­ac­tive and expe­ri­en­tial, and so they can engage peo­ple in pow­er­ful ways to enhance learn­ing and health behav­ior change, espe­cial­ly when they are designed on the basis of well-researched strate­gies,” said (UC San­ta Bar­bara’s Dr. Debra) Lieberman.
  • “The pace of growth and inno­va­tion in dig­i­tal games is incred­i­ble, and we see tremen­dous poten­tial to design them to help peo­ple stay healthy or man­age chron­ic con­di­tions like dia­betes or Parkin­son’s dis­ease. How­ev­er, we need to know more about what works and what does not — and why,” said Paul Tari­ni, team direc­tor for RWJF’s Pio­neer Port­fo­lio. “Health Games Research is a major invest­ment to build a research base for this dynam­ic young field. Fur­ther, the insights and ideas that flow from this work will help us con­tin­ue to expand our imag­i­na­tion of what is pos­si­ble in this arena.”

All 9 stud­ies sound inter­est­ing, 3 of them are clos­er to what we track:

  1. Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, San Fran­cis­co (San Fran­cis­co, CA) A Video Game to Enhance Cog­ni­tive Health in Old­er Adults. As peo­ple age, they lose some of their abil­i­ty to sus­tain their atten­tion and to focus their atten­tion on their main task while ignor­ing dis­trac­tions. This study aims to improve these and oth­er relat­ed cog­ni­tive skills by using a dri­ving game in which [Read more…] about Dig­i­tal Games for Phys­i­cal, Cog­ni­tive and Behav­ioral Health

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: autism, autism spectrum disorder, Behavioral Health, brain-activity, brain-based, cognitive, cognitive-ability, cognitive-health, cognitive-skills, Dance Dance Revolution, Debra Lieberman, Digital Games, games, older-adults, Parkinsons-disease, Paul Tarini, physical-health, Robert-Wood-Johnson-Foundation, RWJF, videogames

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