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

March 29, 2021 by SharpBrains

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, we have lim­it­ing fac­tors — be they phys­i­cal abil­i­ty, mon­ey, time or some­thing else. But that doesn’t mean we can’t adopt a few things the Tour pros do to stay in shape in our own lives. [Read more…] about Grow­ing research sup­ports Heart Rate Vari­abil­i­ty (HRV) biofeed­back train­ing to low­er stress and anx­i­ety, increase sports performance

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Peak Performance, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: ambulatory monitoring, anxiety, athletic performance, athletic training, biofeedback, biofeedback training, exercise, heart-rate-variability, HRV, lower anxiety, lower stress, meta-analysis, mobile health technologies, prognosis, Stress, wearable devices

The Digital Future of Mental Health

October 4, 2012 by SharpBrains

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 wrist strap. [Read more…] about The Dig­i­tal Future of Men­tal Health

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: biometrics, biomonitor, Brain-Fitness, clinical neuroscience, Comcast, digital health, EEG, HRV, Mental-Health, Neuroinformatics, neuroplasticity, psychiatry, Thomas Insel

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

September 28, 2012 by SharpBrains

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.

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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 EEG biometrics
  • Employ­ee Assis­tance Pro­grams enhance cor­po­rate well­ness with brain training
  • The NIH Toolbox:First Com­pre­hen­sive & Stan­dard­ized Tests of Brain Function
  • MMSE®/MMSE®-2™ Cog­ni­tive Impair­ment Screen­er, Now a Mobile App

Healthy Liv­ing & the Brain:

  • Why do Super­Agers Main­tain Mem­o­ry and a Thick Cortex?
  • Will Medicare’s Annu­al Well­ness Vis­it enhance phys­i­cal & cog­ni­tive health? Prob­a­bly — if peo­ple go
  • Health val­ue of Omega‑3 sup­ple­ments is increas­ing­ly questioned
  • Good Q&A on Mild Cog­ni­tive Impairment

Health­care & the Brain:

  • Map­ping the Brain To Bet­ter Enhance and Treat the Mind
  • Cog­ni­tive ther­a­py or med­ica­tion? Brain scans may help per­son­al­ize treatments
  • Mon­i­tor­ing EEG Brain Activ­i­ty to Per­son­al­ize Mem­o­ry Training
  • Train­ing Atten­tion and Mem­o­ry after Bypass Surgery
  • MRI scan tech­ni­cians can expe­ri­ence neg­a­tive neu­rocog­ni­tive effects

Con­cus­sions & the Brain:

  • Retool­ing cog­ni­tive reha­bil­i­ta­tion for mil­i­tary patients with trau­mat­ic brain injury
  • NFL donates $30 mil­lion to improve con­cus­sion & brain injury care
Have a great month of October!

Pic cour­tesy of Big­Stock­Pho­to

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: biometrics, brain, Brain-Fitness, Brain-Training, cognitive, cognitive-health, cognitive-therapy, EEG, HRV, Memory-Training, MMSE, neurocognitive, NIH-toolbox

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

November 18, 2010 by SharpBrains

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 is this sto­ry rel­e­vant to mod­ern neu­ro­science and the work­ings of the brain? Because trans­for­ma­tive tech­no­log­i­cal progress aris­es out of choice and the actions of indi­vid­u­als who see poten­tial for change, and we may well be on the verge of such progress. [Read more…] about Sharp­Brains Coun­cil Month­ly Insights: How will we assess, enhance and repair cog­ni­tion across the lifespan?

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: AARP, aging, awards, BBC, brain-based, brain-computer interface, brain-fitness-training, Brain-health, Brain-Training, CBT, clinical-trials, cogmed, cognitive-functioning, cognitive-health, Cognitive-Training, Dakim, DHA, driving, emotional functioning, health-systems, HR departments, HRV, innovation, insurers, Lumosity, Marbles, mental capital, Mental-Health, Moore's law, National-Academy-of-Sciences, National-Institute-of-Health, nature, Neuropsychology, neuroscience, NovaVision, occupational health, Pearson, pharma, poineers, Posit-Science, PTSD, retirement-communities, schools, seniors providers, Serco, sports clubs, sports-concussions, UCLA, Ultrasis, US Navy, USA-Hockey, workplace, Zeo

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