Posts Tagged ‘brain-illness’
The explosion of mental health apps raises substantial opportunities–and also difficult questions
In the eyes of the tech industry, mental health treatment is an area ripe for disruption. In any given year, 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. experience a form of mental illness, according to federal estimates. And research indicates only about half of them receive treatment in a system that is understaffed and ill…
Read MoreThe future of personal brain health
What is the future of personal brain health? from SharpBrains You can now enjoy the slide deck from this session, which took place at the 2013 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (September 19–20th).
Read MoreThe brain virtues of physical exercise
Dr. Adrian Preda, our newest Expert Contributor, writes today the first in a series of thought-provoking articles, challenging us to think about physical exercise as the best and most unappreciated form of “brain exercise”. A superb article. And one thing is clear, he points out: “the brain really likes it when it’s asked to be…
Read More“Brainfood” Makes the Dictionary!
A fun article from the BBC highlights some of the latest entries to the 2.5 billion-word database of words in the Collins English Dictionary, 9th edition.We were of course biased and happy to see “brainfood” as a newly minted word. According to Webster’s New Millenniumâ„¢ Dictionary of English, they define “brain food”…any food that is considered to aid intelligence, memory, or creativity; by extension, any intellectual sustenance.We’d like to add SharpBrains to the list of brain foods!
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