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Microsoft announces support for three innovative mental health services harnessing artificial intelligence (AI)

July 17, 2020 by SharpBrains

Through our work in the Microsoft AI for Acces­si­bil­i­ty pro­gram, we have learned there are big gaps in men­tal health ser­vices around the globe. In some coun­tries, there may only be one men­tal health pro­fes­sion­al per 100,000 peo­ple. When paired with the real­i­ty that 1 in 5 peo­ple have a men­tal health con­di­tion, we are ask­ing how tech­nol­o­gy can and should be involved. In Feb­ru­ary, we shared our call for project pro­pos­als that aim to accel­er­ate men­tal health research, data insights, and inno­va­tions using AI, and today we want to high­light the projects we’re sup­port­ing. Keep read­ing Microsoft Acces­si­bil­i­ty blog, includ­ing how to apply to fur­ther grants, Here.

The 3 fea­tured projects are: [Read more…] about Microsoft announces sup­port for three inno­v­a­tive men­tal health ser­vices har­ness­ing arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence (AI)

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: artificial intelligence, Befrienders India, innovative, mental health, Microsoft, Supportiv, TalkLife

The World Economic Forum hosts Global Future Council on Neurotechnologies in Dubai (November 10–12th)

November 7, 2018 by SharpBrains

Quick heads-up on a very promis­ing event.

Descrip­tion: Quick­ly devel­op­ing neu­rotech­nolo­gies will have an impact on entire indus­tries, gov­ern­ments, and soci­eties in the future. The Glob­al Future Coun­cil on Neu­rotech­nolo­gies will explore these tech­no­log­i­cal devel­op­ments and their eth­i­cal impli­ca­tions for soci­ety. [Read more…] about The World Eco­nom­ic Forum hosts Glob­al Future Coun­cil on Neu­rotech­nolo­gies in Dubai (Novem­ber 10–12th)

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Filed Under: Technology & Innovation Tagged With: brain, ethical, innovative, mental illnes, neurodegenerative-diseases, neurotech, neurotechnologies, thinking

The National Science Foundation (NSF) funds Neurotechnology Hubs and innovative tools to advance research on Brain & Behavior

August 2, 2017 by SharpBrains

 

– Cor­nell Uni­ver­si­ty neu­ro­sci­en­tist Chris Xu will study how brains pro­duce behav­ior in species across a range of sizes.

NSF issues awards to advance a nation­al research infra­struc­ture for neu­ro­science (press release by the Nation­al Sci­ence Foundation):

“The Nation­al Sci­ence Foun­da­tion (NSF) has made 17 Next Gen­er­a­tion Net­works for Neu­ro­science (Neu­roNex) awards to aid the research com­mu­ni­ty as it pur­sues one of its grand­est chal­lenges: under­stand­ing the brain.

These projects will sup­port the devel­op­ment of inno­v­a­tive, acces­si­ble and shared capa­bil­i­ties and resources, as well as the­o­ret­i­cal frame­works and com­pu­ta­tion­al mod­el­ing to advance neu­ro­science research [Read more…] about The Nation­al Sci­ence Foun­da­tion (NSF) funds Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy Hubs and inno­v­a­tive tools to advance research on Brain & Behavior

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Filed Under: Peak Performance, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: behavior, brain, innovative, National Science Foundation, neural circuits, neural-activity, NeuroNex, neuroscience, neurotechnologies, Neurotechnology, NSF

News: Advanced Brain Monitoring receives Global Health and Pharma Award for clinical-grade platforms monitoring brain’s electrical activity

January 26, 2017 by SharpBrains

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Advanced Brain Mon­i­tor­ing Named “Most Inno­v­a­tive Med­ical Device Com­pa­ny” at Glob­al Health and Phar­ma Awards (Sleep Review):

“Advanced Brain Mon­i­tor­ing Inc was named the “Most Inno­v­a­tive Med­ical Device Com­pa­ny” by Glob­al Health and Phar­ma at its 2016 Health­care and Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal awards. “This award rec­og­nizes our company’s suc­cess­es in devel­op­ing tech­nolo­gies which enable clin­i­cians and clin­i­cal tri­al spon­sors to pro­file brain health through the analy­sis of the brain’s elec­tri­cal activ­i­ty (EEG) dur­ing sleep and wake,” says Chris Berka, Advanced Brain Mon­i­tor­ing CEO…The com­pa­ny was recent­ly award­ed a $1.5 mm grant from Nation­al Insti­tute of Health to expand its data­base of awake and sleep EEG in patients with neu­rode­gen­er­a­tive dis­eases. “The envi­sioned future is for rou­tine brain health assess­ments dur­ing sleep and wak­ing to be con­duct­ed in a man­ner sim­i­lar to a mam­mo­gram or colonoscopy,” says Berka. “Ulti­mate­ly, ear­ly detec­tion will increase the like­li­hood that an inter­ven­tion can be matched to the patient based on the pres­ence of brain bio­mark­ers and admin­is­tered pri­or to the onset of cog­ni­tive decline.”

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  • Mar­ket Report on Per­va­sive Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy: A Ground­break­ing Analy­sis of 10,000+ Patent Fil­ings Trans­form­ing Med­i­cine, Health, Enter­tain­ment and Business
  • Info­graph­ic on the Dig­i­tal Brain Health Mar­ket 2012–2020

How to mea­sure and improve brain-based out­comes that mat­ter in health care from Sharp­Brains

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Advanced Brain Monitoring, brain biomarkers, brain health assessments, Brain Monitoring, Brain-health, cognitive-decline, digital health, diseases, EEG, healthcare, innovative, market, market-report, medical device, National-Institute-of-Health, neurodegenerative, neurodegenerative-diseases, Neurotechnology, pharmaceutical, sleep

Lessons learned in bringing innovative brain fitness solutions to market

January 11, 2016 by SharpBrains

Lessons learned in bring­ing inno­v­a­tive brain fit­ness solu­tions to mar­ket from Sharp­Brains

Suc­cess­ful inno­va­tors dis­sected key mar­ket & tech­nol­ogy trends and mod­els to val­i­date and com­mer­cial­ize inno­va­tion, with a par­tic­u­lar empha­sis on how to cre­ate a loy­al user base and gain main­stream dis­tri­b­u­tion via a diver­sity of chan­nels. [Read more…] about Lessons learned in bring­ing inno­v­a­tive brain fit­ness solu­tions to market

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Brain-Fitness, brain-fitness-solutions, Builders Collaborative, fit-brains, innovative, market, market trends, OpenBCI, Peak, Potomac Insti­tute, Rosetta Stone, technology trends

Needed: funding for innovative research on slowing cognitive decline via cognitive training

August 9, 2010 by Nick Almond

I was real­ly inter­est­ed in the recent cri­tique of the BBC brain train­ing exper­i­ment by Dr. Eliz­a­beth Zelin­s­ki. I think Owens et al (2010) was a crit­i­cal piece of research which was not con­duct­ed in the right way and was focus­ing on the wrong sam­ple pop­u­la­tion.  I total­ly agree with the com­ments by Dr. Zelin­s­ki regard­ing the poten­tial for sam­ple bias and the use of some ques­tion­able cog­ni­tive mea­sures. How­ev­er, I would like to take this cri­tique fur­ther and ques­tion whether the study was val­ue for mon­ey when there are oth­er stud­ies which can­not achieve fund­ing but would, in my opin­ion, show the criticism/scepticism of the use-it-or-lose-it theory.

I think there is not enough crit­i­cism about the age of the sam­ple pop­u­la­tion used in Owens et al. (2010). We have con­clu­sive cog­ni­tive and neu­ro­log­i­cal evi­dence that cognitive/neurological plas­tic­i­ty exists in young adults. There is also ade­quate evi­dence that neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty is evi­dent in old­er adults. The crit­i­cal point which I want to make about the sam­ple pop­u­la­tion in Owens et al. study is that it did not tar­get the cor­rect sam­ple pop­u­la­tion, that is, old­er adults who are at risk of cognitive/neuronal atro­phy. It does not mat­ter if younger adults improve on brain train­ing tasks, or if skills picked up by younger adults from brain train­ing are not trans­ferred to oth­er cog­ni­tive domains, sim­ply because younger adults are good at these skills/cognitive func­tions. There­fore there is a pos­si­bil­i­ty that ceil­ing or scal­ing effects mask the true find­ings in Owens et al. (2010), as indi­cat­ed by Zelinski.

The recruit­ment of the sam­ple pop­u­la­tion is also very con­cern­ing and I do not feel that their con­trol group was appro­pri­ate. [Read more…] about Need­ed: fund­ing for inno­v­a­tive research on slow­ing cog­ni­tive decline via cog­ni­tive training

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: aging, BBC, BBC brain training, bias, Brain-Training, cognitive, cognitive-decline, Cognitive-functions, Cognitive-Training, critique, episodic memory, executive-function, healthy-aging, innovative, memory, metacognition, neurological, neuroplasticity, neuropsychological, nintendo, nintendo-brain-training, Owens, Salthouse, Use-It-or-Lose-It, Zelinski

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