BrainHealth Week starts today! Plus: dancing, personalized mental health, brain stimulation and more

By SharpBrains | February 20, 2023

Wel­come to a new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains e‑newsletter, annouc­ing the kick-off of Brain­Health Week and fea­tur­ing some stim­u­lat­ing resources and teasers. #1. Brain­Health Week (Feb­ru­ary 20–24th) starts today: Explore many fun events includ­ing a dai­ly text chal­lenge, a talk with the always great Dr. Tom Insel, and more! #2. With­out Brain Health, you do not have…

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How much should you trust BetterHelp, Talkspace, Cerebral and other mental health start-ups touted by celebrities?

By Kaiser Health News | July 11, 2022

When Pat Paulson’s son told her he was feel­ing anx­ious and depressed at col­lege, Paul­son went through her Blue Cross Blue Shield provider direc­to­ry and start­ed call­ing men­tal health ther­a­pists. No providers in the Wis­con­sin city where her son’s uni­ver­si­ty is locat­ed had open­ings. So she bought a month­ly sub­scrip­tion to Bet­ter­Help, a Moun­tain View,…

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Funding for digital health start-ups, especially in mental health, fall substantially in Q1’22

By SharpBrains | May 3, 2022

Glob­al dig­i­tal health fund­ing falls 36% with few­er megarounds, IPOs (Fierce Health­care): After two years of record-break­ing invest­ment in dig­i­tal health, cap­i­tal flow into the sec­tor took a dive in the first quar­ter of 2022. The glob­al dig­i­tal health mar­ket saw fund­ing decrease 36% from the fourth quar­ter of 2021, total­ing $10.4 bil­lion, as investors reacted…

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Study: Physical exercise can enhance neuroplasticity in adult brains, accelerating neural repair

By SharpBrains | December 8, 2015

Phys­i­cal activ­i­ty may leave the brain more open to change (EurekAlert) “Learn­ing, mem­o­ry, and brain repair depend on the abil­i­ty of our neu­rons to change with expe­ri­ence. Now, researchers report­ing in the Cell Press jour­nal Cur­rent Biol­o­gy on Decem­ber 7 have evi­dence from a small study in peo­ple that exer­cise may enhance this essen­tial plasticity…

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Update: Mind. Learn. Eat. Shape. Play

By SharpBrains | September 30, 2010

You may find that too much media cov­er­age on how to take good care of our brains is con­fus­ing, if not poten­tial­ly mis­lead­ing. In The True Sto­ry — is men­tal exer­cise good, bad, or irrel­e­vant, Dr. Pas­cale Mich­e­lon dis­sects for you a recent large study which was large­ly report­ed as bad news when in fact it brings…

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