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Click Therapeutics raises further $52M to build up digital therapeutics pipeline for depression, insomnia, smoking cessation and more

November 4, 2021 by SharpBrains

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With Sanofi still on board, Click Ther­a­peu­tics clos­es $52M series B for dig­i­tal ther­a­peu­tics in depres­sion, chron­ic pain and more (Fierce Biotech):

Anoth­er medtech devel­op­er’s plans to cre­ate dig­i­tal ther­a­peu­tics to treat a wide range of ill­ness­es are click­ing into place, thanks to a third mul­ti­mil­lion-dol­lar invest­ment in Click Ther­a­peu­tics in bare­ly a year. [Read more…] about Click Ther­a­peu­tics rais­es fur­ther $52M to build up dig­i­tal ther­a­peu­tics pipeline for depres­sion, insom­nia, smok­ing ces­sa­tion and more

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: acute coronary syndrome, app-based therapeutics, chronic pain, Click Therapeutics, Clickadian, Clickheart, Clickotine, cognitive, cognitive-exercises, depression, digital therapeutics, FDA clearance, insomnia, Otsuka, smoking cessation, treat migraine, treat schizophrenia

Survey finds significant promise for home-based, data-rich cognitive therapy among stroke survivors

May 11, 2016 by SharpBrains

ConstantTherapyTele­health Sees Suc­cess in Ther­a­py (MHealth Intelligence):

“Tele­health-based ther­a­py pro­grams for stroke sur­vivors have helped increase cog­ni­tive and lan­guage skills and enabled patients to receive ther­a­py five times more often, accord­ing to one com­pa­ny. [Read more…] about Sur­vey finds sig­nif­i­cant promise for home-based, data-rich cog­ni­tive ther­a­py among stroke survivors

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: big data, Brain-health, cognitive-exercises, cognitive-health, cognitive-skills, cognitive-therapy, Constant Therapy, disabilities, language skills, mHealth, rehabilitation, stroke, stroke survivors, telehealth

Brain health research study by AARP: Consumers pursue brain training to support a more enjoyable, self-managed life

January 23, 2015 by SharpBrains

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AARP just released a very inter­est­ing brain health research study based on 1,200 online inter­views con­duct­ed in August 2014. Key find­ings include:

  • Main­tain­ing a healthy lifestyle is impor­tant to all con­sumers (99% find it at least some­what impor­tant). Brain health is the sec­ond most impor­tant com­po­nent in main­tain­ing a healthy lifestyle, after heart health (37% find brain health most impor­tant while 51% find heart health most impor­tant). Younger con­sumers [Read more…] about Brain health research study by AARP: Con­sumers pur­sue brain train­ing to sup­port a more enjoy­able, self-man­aged life

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: brain deterioration, brain training programs, Brain-health, Brain-Training, BrainHQ, cognitive-exercises, healthy lifestyle, healthy-living, heart health, improve-brain-health, Lumosity, Mind-Games, worsening memory

Update: Let’s transform brain health from “suffer-in-silence” to “let-me-take-control”

September 26, 2014 by SharpBrains

Summit Interviews

Time for our Sep­tem­ber 2014 e‑newsletter, fea­tur­ing a wealth of insights  and inno­va­tions reports…including four thought-pro­vok­ing inter­views with Spon­sors of the 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Octo­ber 28–30th). Enjoy!

New per­spec­tives at the fron­tier of Brain, Health & Innovation:

  • Bar­bara Arrow­smith Young: Every kid should prac­tice stress reduc­tion and tar­get­ed cog­ni­tive exer­cis­es at school
  • Michael Meagher (Cog­nic­i­ti): Let’s trans­form brain health from “suf­fer-in-silence” to “let-me-take-con­trol”
  • Ita­mar Lesu­isse (Peak): My inter­est in brain train­ing stemmed from my own inadequacies
  • Sil­via Dami­ano (About my Brain Insti­tute): Why not democ­ra­tise access to neuroscience?

New trends:

  • School-based pro­grams to enhance resilience and emotional/ cog­ni­tive flexibility
  • The next in wear­ables: Har­ness­ing EEG for “the mass­es” to track and enhance mind fitness
  • Three Ways to Bring Mind­ful­ness Into Therapy
  • Gen­er­al Motors to adopt eye, head-track­ing tech­nol­o­gy to reduce dis­tract­ed driving
  • To build a health­i­er future, let’s empow­er and equip indi­vid­u­als to be in con­trol of their well-being

New stud­ies:

  • A new psy­choso­cial treat­ment for Inat­ten­tive ADHD
  • Long-term use of anx­i­ety and sleep­ing pills can increase Alzheimer’s risk
  • From anti-depres­sant “mag­ic pills” towards tar­get­ed com­bi­na­tion of med­ica­tions and cog­ni­tive therapy
  • The brain ben­e­fits of learn­ing and speak­ing a sec­ond language

2014_SharpBrains_Virtual_Summit_Shaping the Practice and the Future of Brain FitnessFinal­ly, you may want to try this brain teas­er to test your mul­ti-task­ing abil­i­ties…and, if you are inter­est­ed in all these top­ics for pro­fes­sion­al rea­sons, please con­sid­er join­ing us at the 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Octo­ber 28–30th) — you can reg­is­ter with a 10% dis­count using pro­mo­tion­al code: sharp2014

Have a great month of October!

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: adhd, Alzheimers-disease, anxiety, brain, Brain-health, Brain-Training, cognitive-exercises, cognitive-therapy, medications, Mind-Fitness, mindfulness, neuroscience, stress-reduction, therapy

Barbara Arrowsmith Young: Every kid should practice stress reduction and targeted cognitive exercises at school

September 25, 2014 by Alvaro Fernandez

Bar­bara Arrow­smith Young

What is your cur­rent job title and orga­ni­za­tion, and what excites you the most about work­ing there?
As dis­cussed in The Brain that Changes Itself and in my own book, The Woman Who Changed Her Brain, I launched the Arrow­smith Pro­gram, a suite of cog­ni­tive exercises–now in more that 60 schools–designed to strength­en weak cog­ni­tive areas that under­lie a num­ber of spe­cif­ic learn­ing dif­fi­cul­ties and disabilities.

I did so based on my jour­ney to over­come my own severe spe­cif­ic learn­ing dif­fi­cul­ties [Read more…] about Bar­bara Arrow­smith Young: Every kid should prac­tice stress reduc­tion and tar­get­ed cog­ni­tive exer­cis­es at school

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: Arrowsmith Program, Barbara Arrowsmith-Young, Brain-health, cognitive resources, cognitive-abilities, cognitive-exercises, Howard Eaton, Learning, learning disabilities, learning-difficulties, meditation, neuroplasticity

Why I Wrote The Woman Who Changed Her Brain

April 28, 2012 by Barbara Arrowsmith-Young

We have always thought that “our brain shapes us.” I wrote my new book, The Woman Who Changed Her Brain (May 2012; Free Press, Fore­word by Nor­man Doidge), to prove that the reverse is equal­ly true. I want­ed to demon­strate how “we can shape our brains.”

Imag­ine hav­ing a brain that is capa­ble and inca­pable at the same time. Grow­ing up, I had severe learn­ing dis­abil­i­ties. I lived in a world that was con­fus­ing and incom­pre­hen­si­ble. As I was to lat­er dis­cov­er, a crit­i­cal part of my brain was not work­ing prop­er­ly, the end result being that all lan­guage was expe­ri­enced as for­eign and my trans­la­tor was [Read more…] about Why I Wrote The Woman Who Changed Her Brain

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: Alexander-Luria, Arrowsmith Program, Arrowsmith School, book, brain, Brain-Plasticity, cognitive-exercises, learning disabilities, Mark Rosenzweig, neuropsychologist, Norman-Doidge, Psychology

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