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5 Facts You Need To Know To Understand, Navigate And Enjoy The Digital Brain Health Revolution

April 12, 2017 by Alvaro Fernandez

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Hun­dreds of com­pa­nies around the globe, now includ­ing Elon Musk’s Neu­ralink and even Face­book,  are research­ing and devel­op­ing new ways to help brain own­ers be smarter, sharp­er, and healthier.

What explains this flur­ry of activ­i­ty? Where may it be headed?

To help you under­stand what’s going on, let me high­light five key facts that emerged from the recent Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit.

 

Fact 1. There are 7.5 billion human brains out there, and everyone needs help

Con­sid­er all unmet needs derived from the tra­di­tion­al phar­ma-exclu­sive approach to brain health.

Learn­ing and cog­ni­tive dis­abil­i­ties in chil­dren are grow­ing sig­nif­i­cant­ly, from ADHD and OCD, to autism. The relat­ed emo­tion­al and eco­nom­ic bur­den is sub­stan­tial — yet, over 60–70% of those with treat­ment have poor out­comes, and many who need help don’t get any.

Glob­al­ly, around 350 mil­lion peo­ple suf­fer from depres­sion. Add to that sub­stance abuse, and we are talk­ing hun­dreds of mil­lions of peo­ple with­out prop­er care and very high relapse rates for the lucky ones get­ting help.

Con­cus­sions and brain impair­ments per­vade through mil­lions of vet­er­ans and high-con­tact sports prac­ti­tion­ers, yet diag­no­sis and treat­ments are elusive.

And let’s not for­get the per­fect­ly healthy. [Read more…] about 5 Facts You Need To Know To Under­stand, Nav­i­gate And Enjoy The Dig­i­tal Brain Health Revolution

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Akili, Baycrest, Brain-health, BrainHQ, Claritas Mindsciences, Click Therapeutics, cogmed, Cogniciti, cognifit, digital health, Educational Testing Service, Elon Musk, Facebook, Headspace, IBM Watson, Interaxon, Jazz Ventures, Lumosity, Merck, Merck Ventures, MindMaze, Muse, MyndYou, Neuralink, neuroplasticity, Neuropsychology, neurotech­nolo­gies, neurotech­nolo­gy, NIMH, Pear Therapeutics, Pearson, RehaCom, SBT Group, sharpbrains, UT-Dallas, World-Economic-Forum

Four reasons the future of brain health is digital, pervasive and bright

February 15, 2017 by Alvaro Fernandez

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Hun­dreds of com­pa­nies and sci­ence labs around the globe are research­ing the inner work­ings of the human brain and mind, and devel­op­ing new ways to help brain own­ers be smarter, sharp­er, and health­i­er for longer.

What explains this flur­ry of activ­i­ty? [Read more…] about Four rea­sons the future of brain health is dig­i­tal, per­va­sive and bright

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Akili, Baycrest, Brain-health, BrainHQ, Claritas Mindsciences, Click Therapeutics, cogmed, Cogniciti, cognifit, digital health, Educational Testing Service, Headspace, IBM Watson, Interaxon, Jazz Ventures, Lumosity, Merck, Merck Ventures, MindMaze, Muse, MyndYou, neuroplasticity, Neuropsychology, neurotech­nolo­gies, neurotech­nolo­gy, NIMH, Pear Therapeutics, Pearson, RehaCom, SBT Group, sharpbrains, UT-Dallas, World-Economic-Forum

Witnessing an explosion of consumer-facing neurotechnologies to (potentially) harness lifelong neuroplasticity

January 30, 2017 by Apoorv Mathur

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Last week I shared some key sci­en­tif­ic, tech­no­log­i­cal and invest­ment trends rev­o­lu­tion­iz­ing Brain Health, based on my par­tic­i­pa­tion at the 2016 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit, and promised a sec­ond arti­cle more focused on the tech­nol­o­gy side of things.

Here it is 🙂

Just a few weeks after the Sharp­Brains Sum­mit I also attend­ed CES 2017. While I enjoyed the myr­i­ad emerg­ing tech­nolo­gies –autonomous vehi­cles, robot­ics, drones, aug­ment­ed and vir­tu­al real­i­ty head­sets, voice acti­vat­ed every­thing– I was most­ly struck by a firm named Halo Neu­ro­science. They have a fas­ci­nat­ing wear­able prod­uct, Halo Sport, claim­ing to accel­er­ate gains in strength, explo­sive­ness, endurance, and mus­cle mem­o­ry, improv­ing the brain’s response to ath­let­ic train­ing. It uses tDCS (tran­scra­nial direct cur­rent stim­u­la­tion), essen­tial­ly prim­ing move­ment-relat­ed cir­cuits of the brain to become more recep­tive to stim­uli, help­ing the brain wire in the prac­tice for improved future response.

The cutting edge of applied neuroplasticity

Both con­fer­ences allowed me to see the cut­ting edge of [Read more…] about Wit­ness­ing an explo­sion of con­sumer-fac­ing neu­rotech­nolo­gies to (poten­tial­ly) har­ness life­long neuroplasticity

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Peak Performance, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Akili, applied neuroplasticity, AR, Arrowsmith Program, Arrowsmith School, artificial intelligence, Brain Monitoring, brain-functioning, Brain-Plasticity, BrainHQ, CC-ABHI, Claritas Mindsciences, Click Therapeutics, clinical, clinical neuropsychology, cogmed, Cogniciti, cognitive therapeutics, cognitive therapies, cognitive-assessments, cognitive-enhancement, Cognitive-Training, DBS, Educational Testing Service, EEG, Emotiv, ETS, Halo Neuroscience, Halo Sport, Headspace, IBM Watson, Institute of Coaching, Judson Brewer, Kavli Prize, Lifelong Neuroplasticity, Lumosity, meditation, mental-exercises, Michael-Merzenich, MindMaze, MyndYou, National-Institute-of-Mental-Health, Neurofeedback, neuroplasticity, Neuropsychology, neurostimulation, neurotechnologies, NIMH, Pear Therapeutics, Pearson, physiological, Posit-Science, RehaCom, SBT Group, sensorimotor, The Synapse System, TMS, UC-Berkeley, UCSF, VR, Watson Centre for Brain Health

Survey of key scientific, technological and investment trends revolutionizing Brain Health in our Digital Age

January 23, 2017 by Apoorv Mathur

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Last year I got very inter­est­ed in the func­tion­ing of the human brain and the sci­ence behind mind­ful­ness and learn­ing [1], so was quite excit­ed  to attend the Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit [2] in Decem­ber, indulging in the lat­est trends in applied neu­ro­science and dig­i­tal innovation.

The Sum­mit focused on the theme of rein­vent­ing brain health in the dig­i­tal age, and brought togeth­er lead­ing researchers, entre­pre­neurs, financiers and pol­i­cy­mak­ers pas­sion­ate with the mis­sion of mov­ing neu­ro­science and cog­ni­tive research from sci­ence labs towards appli­ca­tions in Health, Well­ness and Edu­ca­tion. Here’s a sum­ma­ry of the many things I dis­cov­ered. [Read more…] about Sur­vey of key sci­en­tif­ic, tech­no­log­i­cal and invest­ment trends rev­o­lu­tion­iz­ing Brain Health in our Dig­i­tal Age

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: addiction, adhd, aging, Akili Interactive Labs, anxiety, Applied Neuroscience, autism. Autism Spectrum disorder, Baycrest, Behavior Imaging Solutions, Big-Pharma, blood-flow, Brain-health, brain-injury, Bridge Builders Collaborative, CC-ABHI, Claritas, Cogito, Cogniciti, cognitive, cognitive disabilities, cognitive therapeutics, cognitive-decline, Cognitive-functions, Cognitive-impairment, concussions, dementia, depression, digital, digital age, digital brain health, digital health, digital innovation, eMindful, entrepreneurs, FDA-approved, Fourth Industrial Revolution, frontal-lobes, gamification, Happify, Headspace, human-brain, Interaxon, investors, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Jazz Ventures, Johnson & Johnson, Learning, lifespan, McKesson, Mental-Health, Merck, Merck Ventures, mind training, mindfulness, MindMaze, NIMH, OCD, Pear Therapeutics, PTSD, SBIR, sharpbrains, Stress, STTR, substance-abuse, UT-Dallas, virtual-reality, World-Economic-Forum, Xhale

Learning how to mindfully navigate mindfulness apps

September 1, 2016 by SharpBrains

mindfulness appThe Trou­ble with Mind­ful­ness Apps (Mind­ful):

“Be pre­pared to be bored.

This is the gist of one of the noti­fi­ca­tions you receive before you try the body scan med­i­ta­tion from Mind­ful Mood Bal­ance, a web-based pro­gram cur­rent­ly being pilot­ed in [Read more…] about Learn­ing how to mind­ful­ly nav­i­gate mind­ful­ness apps

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: apps, cognitive, Headspace, Lumosity, mindfulness, mindfulness apps, therapists

September update: Revolutions in neurotechnology will soon influence every aspect of human life

September 30, 2015 by SharpBrains

headspaceTime for Sharp­Brains’ Sep­tem­ber e‑newsletter, wrap­ping up this month’s key brain-relat­ed news.

Our brain is at the core of every­thing we do, from the every-day deci­sions we make to the epic emo­tions we feel when we fall in love. And neurotechnologies–especially those that, being dig­i­tal, are emi­nently scal­able, and that, being non-inva­sive, pose few if any neg­a­tive side-effects–are poised to become ubiq­ui­tous, per­va­sive…Keep read­ing the Pre­lim­i­nary Agen­da of the 2015 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Novem­ber 17–19th), which fea­tures 32 con­firmed, stel­lar speak­ers so far!

Innovation news:

  • Google gets seri­ous about brain & men­tal health inno­va­tion and hires NIMH Direc­tor Tom Insel
  • Head­space rais­es $34 mil­lion to scale up med­i­ta­tion ser­vice and trans­form mind health
  • New $3m Euro­pean-Israeli col­lab­o­ra­tion to build brain train­ing sys­tem and enhance foot­ball (soc­cer) play­ers’ game intelligence
  • Cog­nic­i­ti and John­son & John­son Inno­va­tion part­ner to improve cog­ni­tive screen­ings for ear­ly iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of dementia
  • Mobile cog­ni­tive ther­a­pies gain trac­tion as first-line men­tal health intervention

Research news:

  • Report: Rev­o­lu­tions in neu­rotech­nol­o­gy will soon influ­ence every aspect of human life
  • Report: 10 mil­lion peo­ple devel­op demen­tia every year
  • Neona­tal MRI scans of preterm chil­dren can help pre­dict cog­ni­tive and aca­d­e­m­ic prob­lems, and guide ear­ly interventions
  • Brain imag­ing not accu­rate or sen­si­tive enough (yet) to detect Alzheimer’s dis­ease in pri­ma­ry care settings
  • Chal­lenge: How to spur mean­ing­ful, tar­get­ed & safe adop­tion of emerg­ing neurotechnologies

Food for thought:

  • What’s in it for me: Ten crit­i­cal ques­tions to nav­i­gate media cov­er­age of lat­est sci­en­tif­ic findings
  • Would War­ren Buf­fett be a high­ly viable Pres­i­den­tial candidate?
  • Smart brains in action: 17 Sus­tain­able Devel­o­ment Goals (SDGs) To Build A Bet­ter World

 

Final­ly, a reminder to Save Your Spot for 2015 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit (Novem­ber 17–19th) —  10% dis­count code: sharp2015

Have a great month of October!

The Sharp­Brains Team

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Brain-health, Brain-Imaging, Brain-Training, Cogniciti, cognitive therapies, dementia, Headspace, Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Mental-Health, neurotechnologies, Neurotechnology, non-invasive, pervasive

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