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How COVID-related stress can disrupt your brain circuits and nine tips to prevent it

September 3, 2020 by World Economic Forum

COVID-19 has touched each of us some­how. Many now rec­og­nize that car­ing for our men­tal health is as essen­tial as address­ing the virus if we are to emerge stronger, more con­nect­ed and more resilient.

The Ancient Greeks said “know thy­self” to live sound­ly, but it is only now that we have the tech­nol­o­gy to start under­stand­ing how our indi­vid­ual expe­ri­ences arise from the com­plex­i­ty of our brains. [Read more…] about How COVID-relat­ed stress can dis­rupt your brain cir­cuits and nine tips to pre­vent it

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: accelerated, accelerated learning, Anhedonia, anxiety disorder, biotypes, brain circuits, Brain-Plasticity, chronic-stress, clinical depression, Cognitive Fog, cognitive-control, COVID-19, inattention, Learning, mental health, mindful, negative bias, Precision Mental Health, rumination, Stanford, Stress, technology, Threat Response, wellness

Three pioneers of neuroplasticity research discuss the present and future of rewiring the brain

August 25, 2016 by SharpBrains

neuroplasticity-A DISCUSSION WITH EVE MARDER, MICHAEL MERZENICH AND CARLA SHATZ (2016 KAVLI PRIZE IN NEUROSCIENCE):

“Our view of the brain as some­thing con­stant­ly shaped by thought and expe­ri­ence is only a few decades old, yet it has pro­found­ly influ­enced how we teach and treat, raise our young and care for the old.

Eve Marder, Michael Merzenich and Car­la Shatz are three researchers who, in very dif­fer­ent ways, have revealed that the brain is high­ly change­able, or plas­tic. [Read more…] about Three pio­neers of neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty research dis­cuss the present and future of rewiring the brain

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: brain, brain circuits, Brain-Plasticity, neuroplasticity, neuroscience, pioneers, rewiring the brain, therapeutics

Is Mental Health ready to start transitioning towards measurable brain circuits, away from subjective symptoms?

July 5, 2016 by SharpBrains

mental-healthTo Diag­nose Men­tal Ill­ness, Read the Brain (Sci­en­tif­ic American):

Although sci­en­tists have learned a lot about the brain in the last few decades, approach­es to treat­ing men­tal ill­ness­es have not kept up. As neu­ro­sci­en­tists learn more about brain cir­cuits, Stan­ford psy­chi­a­trist Amit Etkin fore­sees a time when diag­noses will be based on brain scans rather than symp­toms [Read more…] about Is Men­tal Health ready to start tran­si­tion­ing towards mea­sur­able brain cir­cuits, away from sub­jec­tive symptoms?

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: brain, brain circuits, brain deficits, brain-function, brain-scans, Mental-Health, mental-illness, mind, psychiatrist, psychiatry

Start-up Thync raises $13 million to market transcranial stimulation via consumer wearable

October 9, 2014 by SharpBrains

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Thync gets $13 mil­lion to send elec­tric cur­rents to your brain (SFGate):

“Thync, a Los Gatos start­up, is work­ing on a wear­able that’s a lit­tle dif­fer­ent from most: it would send fine elec­tric cur­rents through the brain to alter users’ state of mind…some ven­ture cap­i­tal­ists are on-board with the unusu­al vision: on Wednes­day, it said it has raised $13 mil­lion from Khosla Ven­tures and oth­er investors.

Thync says it has cre­at­ed the first wear­able that uses “neu­rosig­nal­ing algo­rithms” to [Read more…] about Start-up Thync rais­es $13 mil­lion to mar­ket tran­scra­nial stim­u­la­tion via con­sumer wearable

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: brain, brain circuits, brain-stimulation, Food and Drug Administration, Khosla Ventures, mind, mood-altering, neurosignaling, tDCS, Thync, transcranial electrical stimulation, transcranial pulsed ultrasound, Transcranial-direct-current-stimulation, wearable

Next: Neurotechnologies to visualize (and why not enhance) brain circuits

October 1, 2014 by SharpBrains

Cred­it: Vin­cent Pieri­bone, Ph.D., John B. Pierce Lab­o­ra­to­ry, Inc.

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Obama’s Brain Project Backs Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy (MIT Tech­nol­o­gy Review):

“…The White House had com­mit­ted to spend­ing $100 mil­lion this year on the project, which seeks to devel­op new tech­nolo­gies for study­ing the brain. As part of that, today the U.S. Nation­al Insti­tutes of Health announced [Read more…] about Next: Neu­rotech­nolo­gies to visu­al­ize (and why not enhance) brain circuits

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Filed Under: Technology & Innovation Tagged With: brain circuits, dopamine, National-Institutes-of-Health, neurotechnologies, neurotransmitter, wearable PET scanner, White House

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