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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Applied Neuroscience and Neurotechnology

September 30, 2019 by SharpBrains

After a very busy month, it’s time now for Sharp­Brains e‑newsletter to sum­ma­rize the lat­est ini­tia­tives, tools and ideas for life­long brain health and men­tal fit­ness — and to share a few puz­zles and illu­sions to tease your brain.

A grow­ing num­ber of class­rooms in Chi­na are equipped with arti­fi­cial-intel­li­gence cam­eras and brain-wave track­ers. Video: Crys­tal Tai for The Wall Street Journal.

New neuro-infused education and healthcare initiatives:

  • Chi­na is har­ness­ing brain-wave track­ers and arti­fi­cial-intel­li­gence to raise bet­ter (and more com­pli­ant?) students
  • Report calls for wide class­room-based adop­tion of ten brain fit­ness pro­grams designed to improve foun­da­tion­al exec­u­tive functions
  • The Nation­al Health Ser­vice (NHS) in the UK con­sid­ers adding a 5‑minute cog­ni­tive test to its annu­al health check-up
  • CVS Health: Cog­ni­tive behav­ioral ther­a­py (CBT) apps may help you more than sleep­ing pills

New neurotech and digital health tools:

  • What does the Face­book acqui­si­tion of CTRL-Labs mean for Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy and Aug­ment­ed & Vir­tu­al Reality?
  • Start­up Aur­al Ana­lyt­ics rais­es $4.3M to mon­i­tor neu­ro­log­i­cal health by ana­lyz­ing speech patterns
  • Will per­son­al­ized med­i­ta­tion apps be able to repli­cate the expe­ri­ence of work­ing with a coach?
  • IBM, VA and Total Brain to test dig­i­tal men­tal health plat­form for vet­er­ans and reservists

New thinking on brain and mental health:

  • Two great pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties with renowned neu­ropsy­chol­o­gist Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg
  • Apple/ Eli Lilly’s bet: Wear­able and mobile con­sumer devices may well help us detect cog­ni­tive impair­ment and dementia
  • May “indus­try review boards” con­tribute to the wider adop­tion of vir­tu­al and aug­ment­ed real­i­ty for phys­i­cal and men­tal health?

Finally, a few fun brain teasers for adults and kids alike 🙂

  • Tease your brain with the Her­mann Grid illusion
  • Brain teas­er to test your pat­tern recog­ni­tion: Fill the void
  • Math brain teas­er requir­ing no math — just per­cep­tion and cognition

 

Have a great month of October,

 

The Sharp­Brains Team

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Filed Under: Brain Teasers, Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Apple, Applied Neuroscience, brain health, Brain Teasers, brain teasers for adults, Brain-Fitness, CBT, cognitive test, Cognitive-impairment, Ctrl-labs, CVS Health, Eli Lilly, Elkhonon-Goldberg, Executive-Functions, IBM, mental health, neuropsychologist, Neurotechnology, NHS, Total Brain

CVS Health: Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) apps may help you more than sleeping pills

September 25, 2019 by SharpBrains

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Sleep Ther­a­py for the Mass­es May Be Com­ing to You Soon (The New York Times):

“CVS Health wants to help mil­lions of Amer­i­can work­ers improve their sleep. So for the first time, the big phar­ma­cy ben­e­fits man­ag­er is offer­ing a pure­ly dig­i­tal ther­a­py as a pos­si­ble employ­ee benefit.

The com­pa­ny is encour­ag­ing employ­ers to cov­er the costs for their work­ers to use [Read more…] about CVS Health: Cog­ni­tive behav­ioral ther­a­py (CBT) apps may help you more than sleep­ing pills

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Peak Performance, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Big Health, cognitive-behavioral-therapy, CVS Health, digital therapeutics, digital therapy, mental health, Novartis, sleep, sleep aid medications, Sleepio

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