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Ohio Opioid Technology Challenge funds program testing neurofeedback-based brain training to reduce cravings and battle opioid addiction

January 31, 2018 by SharpBrains

Soft­ware engi­neer Kel­ly Cash­ion (right) adjusts a wire­less EEG head­set on research engi­neer Nilesh Powar. Cred­it: The Uni­ver­si­ty of Day­ton Research Institute

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Bat­tling Addic­tion With Brain­pow­er (Uni­ver­si­ty of Day­ton press release):

“The Uni­ver­si­ty of Day­ton Research Insti­tute has won a $10,000 Ohio Opi­oid Tech­nol­o­gy Chal­lenge award for a pro­gram that will teach peo­ple with opi­oid addic­tions how to reduce their crav­ings by regain­ing con­trol of their brains.

“Using neu­ro­feed­back, we’ll work with our vol­un­teers to help them learn to reg­u­late activ­i­ty in the part of their brain asso­ci­at­ed with crav­ings and rewire some of those path­ways, allow­ing them to reduce their crav­ings and expe­ri­ence a more ‘nor­mal’ state even with­out opi­oids.” [Read more…] about Ohio Opi­oid Tech­nol­o­gy Chal­lenge funds pro­gram test­ing neu­ro­feed­back-based brain train­ing to reduce crav­ings and bat­tle opi­oid addiction

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: addiction, biofeedback, Brain-Training, brainpower, brainwave, EEG, electroencephalography, hardware, medication, Neurofeedback, Ohio, Ohio Third Frontier, opioid addictions, Opioid Technology Challenge, Research Institute, software, treatment centers, University of Dayton, University of Dayton Research Institute

For invasive cognitive enhancement to work, firms will need to validate both the “neuro” and the “tech”

June 9, 2017 by SharpBrains

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A Hard­ware Update for the Human Brain (The Wall Street Journal):

“The field that gave Emi­ly her life back is known as neu­rotech­nol­o­gy, or sim­ply neurotech—a mar­riage of neu­rol­o­gy, neu­ro­science, neu­ro­surgery and the kind of hard­ware that goes into smart­phones. Today, most neu­rotech com­pa­nies are focused on med­ical appli­ca­tions, which [Read more…] about For inva­sive cog­ni­tive enhance­ment to work, firms will need to val­i­date both the “neu­ro” and the “tech”

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Boston Scientific, brain, cognitive-enhancement, DARPA, hardware, human-brain, medical, Medtronic, neurology, NeuroPace, neuroscience, neurosurgery, neurotech, Neurotechnology, Stryker

Next: Consumer-facing neurotechnologies to augment everyday work and life

June 29, 2016 by SharpBrains

neurotechnologyNeu­rotech­nol­o­gy Could Lead to Thought-Con­trolled Devices (BizTech):

“To inter­act with a com­put­er, users gen­er­al­ly type on a key­board, swipe their fin­gers across a screen or speak a voice com­mand. What if, instead, the machine sim­ply respond­ed to their thoughts? [Read more…] about Next: Con­sumer-fac­ing neu­rotech­nolo­gies to aug­ment every­day work and life

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Filed Under: Technology & Innovation Tagged With: brain-activity, consumer-facing, Consumers, devices, hardware, monitoring, neurotechnologyX, sensors, thought

Cognitive maintenance 2.0: From crossword puzzles to targeted mental stimulation

October 26, 2014 by SharpBrains

neuroimagingThe Sil­ver Econ­o­my: Brain train­ing fired up by hard evi­dence (Finan­cial Times):

“Not so long ago, peo­ple kept age­ing brains active through read­ing and writ­ing, talk­ing with friends and fam­i­ly, and per­haps play­ing cards or doing puz­zles. Now a rapid­ly grow­ing num­ber are tak­ing a high-tech approach to cog­ni­tive main­te­nance, through com­put­er pro­grams designed to stim­u­late the brain… [Read more…] about Cog­ni­tive main­te­nance 2.0: From cross­word puz­zles to tar­get­ed men­tal stimulation

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: brain training programs, Brain-Plasticity, Brain-Training, cognitive maintenance, cognitive-abilities, hardware, silver economy, smartphones, software

Brain Fitness Programs For Seniors Housing, Healthcare and Insurance Providers: Evaluation Checklist

September 24, 2008 by Alvaro Fernandez

Dur­ing the research phase before the pub­li­ca­tion of the spe­cial report Brain Fit­ness Cen­ters in Seniors Hous­ing — A Field in the Mak­ing, pub­lished by the Amer­i­can Seniors Hous­ing Asso­ci­a­tion (ASHA), we real­ized that there were equal amounts of inter­est and con­fu­sion among exec­u­tives and pro­fes­sion­als think­ing about adding com­put­er-based cog­ni­tive exer­cise prod­ucts to their mix of health & well­ness activ­i­ties, so we includ­ed the Eval­u­a­tion Check­list that follows.

The real-life expe­ri­ences at lead­ing orga­ni­za­tions such as Senior Star Liv­ing, Bel­mont Vil­lage Senior Liv­ing, Erick­son Retire­ment Com­mu­ni­ties and oth­ers were instru­men­tal in the devel­op­ment of the Check­list. We hope it is useful.

Brain Fit­ness Pro­grams For Seniors Hous­ing, Health­care and Insur­ance Providers: Eval­u­a­tion Checklist

Over the next sev­er­al years, it is like­ly that many seniors hous­ing oper­a­tors will begin to care­ful­ly eval­u­ate a grow­ing num­ber of options to include “brain fit­ness cen­ters” in their communities.

Some options will require pur­chas­ing a device, such as Nin­ten­do prod­ucts, or the Dakim touch-screen sys­tem. Oth­ers will require installing soft­ware in PCs in exist­ing or new com­put­er labs, such as Posit Sci­ence, Cogmed or Cog­niFit’s pro­grams. Oth­ers will be ful­ly avail­able online, such as those offered by Lumos Labs, Hap­py Neu­ron and My Vig­or­ous Mind. And still oth­ers may be tech­nol­o­gy-free, promis­ing engag­ing com­bi­na­tions of inter­ac­tive, group-based, activ­i­ties with pen-and-paper exercises.

Cre­at­ing a sol­id busi­ness case will help com­mu­ni­ties nav­i­gate through this grow­ing array of options. We sug­gest com­mu­ni­ties con­sid­er this Sharp­Brains Check­list for Brain Fit­ness Centers:

1. Ear­ly Users: Who among our res­i­dents is ready and will­ing to do the pro­gram? How are they react­ing to the pilot test­ing of the program?

2. Cog­ni­tive ben­e­fits: What are the spe­cif­ic ben­e­fits claimed for using this pro­gram? Under what sce­nario of use (how many hours/week, how many weeks)? What spe­cif­ic cog­ni­tive skill(s) does the pro­gram train? How will we mea­sure progress? [Read more…] about Brain Fit­ness Pro­grams For Seniors Hous­ing, Health­care and Insur­ance Providers: Eval­u­a­tion Checklist

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: American-Seniors-Housing-Association, asha, Belmont-Village-Senior-Living, brain, Brain-Fitness, brain-fitness-centers, business-case, checklist, cogmed, cognifit, cognitive-benefits, cognitive-exercise, Cognitive-Training, cognitive-vitality, Dakim, device, early-users, Erickson-Retirement-Communities, Happy-Neuron, hardware, health, healthcare, innovation, insurance, lumos-labs, My-Vigorous-Mind, neuropsychologists, news, nintendo, Posit-Science, retirement-communities, return-on-investment, ROI, senior-living, Senior-Star-Living, seniors-housing, software, technology

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