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On Awe, Healthy Eating, Mental Health, Ethical Neurotech, and more

October 29, 2019 by SharpBrains

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Time to wrap-up anoth­er very active month with our Sharp­Brains e‑newsletter sum­ma­riz­ing excit­ing devel­op­ments in brain research, health­care and tech­nol­o­gy — plus a cou­ple fun brain teasers to spark curios­i­ty and innovation 🙂

New brain research:

  • Brain scans shed light on the brain net­works sup­port­ing Awe
  • For World Men­tal Health Day let’s review how a healthy diet can pro­mote men­tal well-being
  • Stren­u­ous phys­i­cal exer­cise may lead to cog­ni­tive –not just phys­i­cal– fatigue

New thinking about brain & mental health:

  • The Nation­al Acad­e­my of Med­i­cine (NAM) shares dis­cus­sion paper to help empow­er 8 bil­lion minds
  • A call to action: We need the right incen­tives to guide eth­i­cal inno­va­tion in neu­rotech and healthcare
  • Qan­tas mon­i­tors brain­waves of pilots and pas­sen­gers to test 19.5‑hour flight from NY to Sydney
  • UW Med­i­cine cre­ates new Insti­tute for Brain Health Solutions

Emerging neurotech and digital brain health:

  • Bay­er to sup­port 11 dig­i­tal health star­tups, 5 of which are devel­op­ing behavioral/ cognitive/ men­tal health solutions
  • BrainCheck rais­es $8 mil­lion to dig­i­tize cog­ni­tive assess­ments and bet­ter serve the aging population
  • Novar­tis dis­solves agree­ment to mar­ket Pear Ther­a­peu­tics’ pre­scrip­tion dig­i­tal ther­a­peu­tics for substance/ opi­oid abuse
  • After 8‑year fol­low-up, study finds robust and sus­tained anti­de­pres­sant response to deep brain stim­u­la­tion (DBS)

Finally, a couple fun brain teasers:

  • Quick: Answer this to stretch your mind and rec­og­nize your biases
  • Which train is going the wrong way?

 

Have a excel­lent Halloween…

 

The Sharp­Brains Team

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Filed Under: Brain Teasers, Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: aging, Bayer, brain scans, Brain Teasers, BrainCheck, brainwaves, cognitive, cognitive-assessments, deep-brain-stimulation, digital brain health, digital health, digital therapeutics, fatigue, healthy diet, mental well being, neurotech, Novartis, Pear Therapeutics, UW Medicine

Washington Wizards to test virtual reality system to better monitor players’ fatigue

February 20, 2019 by SharpBrains

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Wash­ing­ton Wiz­ards Part­ner With Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy Com­pa­ny To Assess Play­er Fatigue (Forbes):

“Pro­fes­sion­al sports teams are always look­ing for an edge, as games are often won or lost by one quick deci­sion or one regret­ful error. As the sports world become recep­tive to tech­nolo­gies more preva­lent in oth­er sec­tors, the new knowl­edge gained can enhance that desired edge in ways that would be near­ly unrec­og­niz­able to a pro­fes­sion­al ath­lete a gen­er­a­tion ago.

One area of con­tin­ued inter­est for ath­let­ic train­ing is [Read more…] about Wash­ing­ton Wiz­ards to test vir­tu­al real­i­ty sys­tem to bet­ter mon­i­tor play­ers’ fatigue

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Peak Performance, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: brain-performance, EYE-SYNC, fatigue, Neurotechnology, SyncThink, virtual-reality, Washington Wizards

Study: Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) can reduce fatigue in patients with Multiple Sclerosis (MS)

October 6, 2017 by SharpBrains

 

Leigh Charvet, PhD and a mem­ber of her research team use the tran­scra­nial direct cur­rent stim­u­la­tion (tDCS) equip­ment. Cred­it: NYU Lan­gone Health

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Tran­scra­nial Direct Cur­rent Stim­u­la­tion Shown to Reduce Fatigue Asso­ci­at­ed with Mul­ti­ple Scle­ro­sis (NYU Lagone Health press release):

“Peo­ple with mul­ti­ple scle­ro­sis (MS) who under­went a non-inva­sive form of elec­tri­cal brain stim­u­la­tion expe­ri­enced sig­nif­i­cant reduc­tions in fatigue, a com­mon and often debil­i­tat­ing symp­tom of the dis­ease [Read more…] about Study: Tran­scra­nial Direct Cur­rent Stim­u­la­tion (tDCS) can reduce fatigue in patients with Mul­ti­ple Scle­ro­sis (MS)

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: brain-stimulation, electrical brain stimulation, fatigue, multiple-sclerosis, non-invasive, over-the-counter, rehabilitation, tDCS, telerehabilitation, tES, Transcranial-direct-current-stimulation

Study shows how online mindfulness interventions can reduce work-related rumination and fatigue, and improve sleep quality

September 14, 2017 by Greater Good Science Center

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Work these days often comes with long hours, emo­tion­al­ly drain­ing col­leagues, and com­plex prob­lems that require an enor­mous amount of men­tal ener­gy. So it’s no sur­prise that many of us have a hard time leav­ing work-relat­ed thoughts at the office.

“Sur­veys have shown that between 16 and 25 per­cent of the work­force have reg­u­lar issues of not being able to switch off and are upset or dis­tressed by work-relat­ed thoughts,” says Mark Crop­ley, a pro­fes­sor of health psy­chol­o­gy at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Sur­rey. That can lead to a host of men­tal and phys­i­cal health issues, includ­ing dif­fi­cul­ty focus­ing and depres­sion. [Read more…] about Study shows how online mind­ful­ness inter­ven­tions can reduce work-relat­ed rumi­na­tion and fatigue, and improve sleep quality

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Peak Performance, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: cognitive-functioning, depression, fatigue, Internet-based, mental energy, Mental Health Foundation, Mental-Health, mindfulness, occupational health, psychological well-being, rumination, sleep, work, workforce

Brainy Innovation Tips from Edward Kliphuis, Investment Director with Merck Ventures

August 1, 2017 by Alvaro Fernandez

Edward Kli­phuis

Ques­tion: Edward, please share 1–2 major brain health needs you observe right now whose solu­tion demands a cre­ative and sig­nif­i­cant tech-enabled innovation.

Answer: We need to tar­get depres­sion, stress and fatigue in a quan­tifi­able man­ner (ie. no well­ness-like claims, but real data sup­port­ing an improve­ment in the afore­men­tioned indi­ca­tions). Treat­ments and ear­ly detec­tion too.

Also, ways  to mon­i­tor lon­gi­tu­di­nal cog­ni­tive abil­i­ties (ie. per­son-spe­cif­ic brain func­tion over the course of a num­ber of years). Done on a wider pop­u­la­tion this could pro­vide insights into the impact of cer­tain exter­nal fac­tors such as food, air qual­i­ty, etc.

 

Ques­tion: And what advice would you give an entre­pre­neur launch­ing an inno­va­tion to address those needs–for the approach to be suc­cess­ful and sustainable?

Answer: Focus on the right mod­el from day one: You need to iden­ti­fy right away the best approach for the oppor­tu­ni­ty at hand — for exam­ple, reg­u­lat­ed med­ical approach vs. gen­er­al well­ness? Both are viable but going from unreg­u­lat­ed to reg­u­lat­ed is hard­ly pos­si­ble where­as the oppo­site is viable (although cre­ates a risk of off-label use…)

 

– Edward Kli­phuis is an Invest­ment Direc­tor with Mer­ck Ven­tures BV, the Cor­po­rate Ven­ture Cap­i­tal arm of Mer­ck KGaA, Darm­stadt, Ger­many. He is respon­si­ble for the New Busi­ness­es fund, which invests glob­al­ly in trans­for­ma­tion­al ideas dri­ven by great entre­pre­neurs. The New Busi­ness­es fund seeks to invest in strate­gic oppor­tu­ni­ties beyond Merck’s cur­rent busi­ness­es, make cross over invest­ments between busi­ness­es and invest in dig­i­ti­za­tion oppor­tu­ni­ties. The total vol­ume of the cor­po­rate ven­ture fund is €300 mil­lion. He will serve as a Judge in the first Brainnova­tions Pitch Con­test host­ed by the 2017 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: Brain Enhance­ment in the Dig­i­tal Age (Decem­ber 5–7th, 2017).

– Brain­no­va­tions Judg­ing Panel

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: brain conference, Brain-health, brain-performance, cognitive-abilities, depression, entrepreneur, fatigue, innovation, Merck, Merck Ventures, Stress

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