Growing research supports Heart Rate Variability (HRV) biofeedback training to lower stress and anxiety, increase sports performance

What’s HRV? An impor­tant health met­ric every golfer should pay atten­tion to (Golf.com): As ama­teur golfers, we’d love to play like the pros. There’s no doubt that you would trade your banana slice for Dustin Johnson’s pen­e­trat­ing 300-yard dri­ve down the mid­dle of the fair­way or Collin Morikawa’s impec­ca­ble ball strik­ing in a heart­beat. Unfortunately,…

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The Digital Future of Mental Health

Fun futur­is­tic vision over at The Atlantic, titled The Extreme­ly Per­son­al Com­put­er: The Dig­i­tal Future of Men­tal Health: “It’s 2018, and you’re not feel­ing your best. Yes­ter­day, on the phone with Com­cast, you for­got your social secu­ri­ty num­ber, and had to call your mom to get it…You fire up your PC and dig out your biomonitor…

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Update: Connecting technology, healthy living, healthcare, concussions, and the Brain

Time for Sharp­Brains’ Sep­tem­ber 2012 eNewslet­ter, fea­tur­ing lead­­ing-edge research and insights to help con­nect the dots among tech­nol­o­gy, healthy liv­ing, healthare, con­cus­sions, and–our protagonist–the brain. — Tech­nol­o­gy & the Brain: Is the Inter­net mak­ing us dumb­er? (Nope, just dif­fer­ent) Increas­ing cog­ni­tive loads on min­ers’ brains: good exam­ple of where soci­ety is head­ing Brain fit­ness meets HRV and…

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SharpBrains Council Monthly Insights: How will we assess, enhance and repair cognition across the lifespan?

When you think of how the PC has altered the fab­ric of soci­ety, per­mit­ting instant access to infor­ma­tion and automat­ing process­es beyond our wildest dreams, it is instruc­tive to con­sid­er that much of this progress was dri­ven by Moore’s law. Halv­ing the size of semi­con­duc­tor every 18 months catal­ysed an expo­nen­tial accel­er­a­tion in per­for­mance. Why…

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