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Latest brain research, tools and teasers to think outside the mental health status quo box

February 26, 2020 by SharpBrains

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Time for a new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains’ e‑newsletter, fea­tur­ing a range of  research find­ings, resources, brain teasers and rid­dles to help trans­late emerg­ing neu­ro­science into real-world appli­ca­tions and improve our col­lec­tive brain & men­tal health.

New thinking:

  • Neu­ro­science tips about grat­i­tude, aging, pain and the brain: An inter­view with Dr. Daniel Levitin
  • What’s nor­mal? When it comes to the brain, it’s hard to say, and that’s why we need to study glob­al neurodiversity
  • Will self-dri­ving vehi­cles lead to a surge of brain training?
  • How to remem­ber what you read: Eight tips to improve read­ing speed and cog­ni­tive ability

New research:

  • To boost your men­tal well-being, sim­ply recall, right now, an act of kindness
  • Machine-learn­ing study finds EEG brain sig­na­tures that pre­dict response to anti­de­pres­sant treatments
  • Study finds com­bined phar­ma + non-phar­ma treat­ment most ben­e­fi­cial to help youth with ADHD address long-term aca­d­e­m­ic difficulties
  • Ambi­tious Inter­na­tion­al Brain Ini­tia­tive (IBI) launched to advance glob­al neu­ro­science research

New tools:

  • Large study finds pos­i­tive yet mixed results from Akili’s dig­i­tal ther­a­peu­tic for kids with ADHD
  • U.S. Army devel­ops nov­el way to ana­lyze brain imag­ing data and shape emerg­ing non-inva­sive neurotechnology
  • Med­i­ta­tion app Head­space rais­es $93 mil­lion to accel­er­ate clin­i­cal val­i­da­tion and geo­graph­ic expansion
  • Dig­i­tal men­tal health tak­ing off in Europe

Fun brain teasers:

  • Train your brain to think out­side the box with these fun riddles
  • Three illu­sions to test your per­cep­tu­al and cog­ni­tive skills
  • Math brain teas­er: Will you fin­ish your the­sis on time?

 

Have a great month of March,

 

The Sharp­Brains Team

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Filed Under: Brain Teasers, Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: adhd, aging, Akili, brain, brain health, brain signatures, Brain Teasers, brain training, brain-research, cognitive-ability, digital therapeutic, europe, Headspace, mental health, mental health status quo, mental well being, neurodiversity, neuroscience, Neurotechnology, non-invasive, non-invasive neurotechnology, riddles, status quo

Update: Trained older brains can outperform untrained younger ones at demanding cognitive tasks

August 29, 2019 by SharpBrains

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Time for Sharp­Brains e‑newsletter, fea­tur­ing the lat­est research, tools and think­ing for life­long brain health and men­tal well-being — and a cou­ple fun brain teasers 🙂

New brain research:

  • Can trained old­er brains out­per­form untrained younger ones at demand­ing cog­ni­tive tasks? Quick answer: YES
  • Sep­tem­ber 17th @ UC Berke­ley: Dis­rupt­ing neu­rode­gen­er­a­tive diseases

New neurotech and digital health:

  • Har­ness­ing inno­v­a­tive neu­rotech­nolo­gies to pro­vide bet­ter urgent care at Ban­ner Health
  • Phar­ma indus­try warm­ing up to dig­i­tal therapeutics
  • Dig­i­tal Cog­ni­tive Behav­ioral Ther­a­py (CBTi) may become the uni­ver­sal first-line treat­ment for insomnia

New thinking on brain and mind:

  • Pos­i­tive soli­tude, Feel­ing active and Future-mind­ednes: Three Keys to Well-being
  • Study finds psy­chi­atric diag­noses to be ‘sci­en­tif­i­cal­ly meaningless’

And a couple fun brain teasers:

  • Quick brain teas­er to deter­mine your stress levels
  • Test your cog­ni­tive flexibility

 

Have a great month of September,

 

The Sharp­Brains Team

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Filed Under: Brain Teasers, Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Banner Health, brain health, brain teaser adults, Brain Teasers, brain-research, brain-teaser, CBT, CBTi, cognitive, cognitive-flexibility, digital health, digital therapeutics, mental well being, neurotech, neurotechnologies, pharma, psychiatric

Navigating the Brain Research Landscape

August 1, 2019 by SharpBrains

Out­smart­ing Smart Tech­nol­o­gy to Reclaim our Health and Focus from Sharp­Brains

Let us share this slid­edeck sup­port­ing an impor­tant ses­sion at the 2019 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: The Future of Brain Health (March 7–9th).  Full record­ings are avail­able for pur­chase here.

8.45–10.15am. Nav­i­gat­ing the Brain Research Landscape

  • Dr. Peter White­house, Pro­fes­sor of Neu­rol­o­gy at Case West­ern Reserve University
  • Dr. Nir Gross­man, Lec­tur­er in the Divi­sion of Brain Sci­ences at Impe­r­i­al Col­lege London
  • Dr. Reza Zomor­ro­di, Project Sci­en­tist at Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Cen­tre for Addic­tion and Men­tal Health (CAMH)
  • Chaired by: Rebec­ca Can­ter, Asso­ciate at the Demen­tia Dis­cov­ery Fund (DDF)

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: brain-research, CAMH, Case-Western-Reserve-University, Dementia Discovery Fund, Imperial College London

News you can use: To improve memory, exercise brain and body at the same time

February 27, 2018 by SharpBrains

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Time for Sharp­Brains’ eNewslet­ter  track­ing the lat­est think­ing, research and tools for brain health.

This month we fea­ture five fas­ci­nat­ing inter­views at the fron­tier of applied neu­ro­science and a recent study sug­gest­ing that “Per­form­ing mem­o­ry train­ing exer­cis­es at the same time as ped­al­ing a sta­tion­ary bike led to bet­ter gains in mem­o­ry than doing the train­ing exer­cis­es after work­ing up a sweat…”

Enjoy the read!

New thinking:

  • A con­ver­sa­tion with Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg on Cre­ativ­i­ty, Neu­ro­science, and Tech­no­log­i­cal Innovation
  • Neu­ropsy­chol­o­gist Amy Serin would like to see every­one avoid the detri­men­tal effects of an over­ac­tive stress response
  • Dr. Albert Kwon wants to har­ness Aug­ment­ed Real­i­ty to sig­nif­i­cant­ly ease access to Neu­ro­log­i­cal Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Therapies
  • Tara Thi­a­gara­jan on build­ing a glob­al plat­form for brain research that tru­ly cap­tures the diver­si­ty of humanity
  • Jan Samzelius on why mon­i­tor­ing Typ­ing Cadence may help detect ear­ly Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s Disease

New research:

  • To max­i­mize cog­ni­tive ben­e­fits, study sug­gests you exer­cise brain and body at the same time
  • 10-year study finds that the high­er the blood sug­ar lev­el, the faster the cog­ni­tive decline over time — regard­less of dia­bet­ic status
  • New book by Steven Pinker reminds us that Tech­nol­o­gy is not destroy­ing our Minds (but there’s always more Enlight­ened ways to har­ness it)
  • The Chan Zucker­berg Ini­tia­tive reach­es out of neu­ro­science to expand its Neu­rode­gen­er­a­tion Chal­lenge Network

New tools:

  • NHS Choic­es helps improve brain health and sci­ence lit­er­a­cy by report­ing find­ings in con­text — as seen in this brain train­ing & schiz­o­phre­nia example
  • Halo Neu­ro­science rais­es $13M to fur­ther devel­op and com­mer­cial­ize neu­ro­mod­u­la­tion head­set aimed at induc­ing “hyper­plas­tic­i­ty”
  • Ohio Opi­oid Tech­nol­o­gy Chal­lenge funds pro­gram test­ing neu­ro­feed­back-based brain train­ing to reduce crav­ings and bat­tle opi­oid addiction

 

Final­ly, you may want to learn about cog­ni­tion and men­tal self-rota­tion with these quick brain teasers.

Have a great month of March,

The Sharp­Brains Team

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Peak Performance, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Albert Kwon, Amy Serin, augmented reality, Brain Teasers, Brain-health, brain-research, brain-teaser, Brain-Training, cognitive-decline, creativity, diversity, Elkhonon-Goldberg, Halo Neuroscience, hyperplasticity, innovation, Jan Samzelius, neurodegeneration, Neurofeedback, neurological, Neuropsychology, neuroscience, NHS Choices, rehabilitation, Steven-Pinker, Stress Response, Tara Thiagarajan

How can we harness digital technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) to scale up brain research, assessments and interventions?

December 26, 2017 by SharpBrains

How can we har­ness dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies and arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence (AI) to scale up brain research, assess­ments and inter­ven­tions?  (record­ing requires reg­is­tra­tion; view slid­edeck above or Here)

  • Dr. Oliv­er Har­ri­son. Chief Exec­u­tive of the Health Moon­shot at Tele­fóni­ca Innovation
  • Nan­cy Briefs, Pres­i­dent and CEO of Dig­i­tal Cog­ni­tion Technologies 
  • Emma Yang, 9th grad­er, Cre­ator of Time­less app and MIT Solver
  • Belén Guer­ra-Car­ril­lo, NSF Fel­low and grad­u­ate stu­dent researcher at Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­fo­nia, Berkeley
  • Chaired by: Kayt Sukel, sci­ence writer

Slid­edeck above sup­port­ed ses­sion held dur­ing the 2017 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: Brain Health & Enhance­ment in the Dig­i­tal Age (Decem­ber 5–7th). All ses­sion record­ings avail­able for pur­chase (50+ Speak­ers, 15+ Hours, $150).

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: AI, artificial intelligence, assessments, Berkeley, brain-research, digital, Digital Cognition Technologies, digital health, Health Moonshot, innovation, Interventions, MIT Solver, Telefónica, Telefónica Innovation, Timeless

Reminder: Last 12 hours to submit pitches to the Brainnovations Pitch Contest!

October 31, 2017 by SharpBrains

This is the Brain­no­va­tions Judg­ing Panel…our very own “Sharp Tank”

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A quick reminder that the Brainnova­tions Pitch Con­test is accept­ing sub­mis­sions until today, Octo­ber 31st, 11 PM US Pacif­ic Stan­dard Time. We are look­ing for star­tups world­wide, found­ed no ear­li­er than 2012, for-prof­it or non-prof­it, work­ing on ways to har­ness brain research and emerg­ing tech­nolo­gies to help every per­son thrive in the dig­i­tal age. [Read more…] about Reminder: Last 12 hours to sub­mit pitch­es to the Brain­no­va­tions Pitch Contest!

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: brain-research, Brainnovations, digital age, neurotechnologies, Neurotechnology, Pitch Contest, startups

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