Dos and Don’ts of Therapy on the Go: Navigating the use of apps for mental health care

By The Conversation | June 13, 2022

It might be sur­pris­ing to think about brows­ing for ther­a­pists and order­ing up men­tal health care the way you can peruse a menu on Grub­hub or sum­mon a car on Lyft. But over the last decade, dig­i­tal access to ther­a­py has become increas­ing­ly com­mon, in some cas­es replac­ing the tra­di­tion­al mod­el of in-per­­son week­ly ses­sions between…

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Fast Forward to 2040: How to prepare for the new era in brain enhancement that will change the way we think, work, and heal

By Tan Le | March 19, 2020

Decades from now when our aug­ment­ed brains have enhanced our cog­ni­tive func­tion and trans­formed near­ly every aspect of our lives, many of us will look back and won­der why we didn’t do more to pre­pare for these inevitable changes. Gov­ern­ment lead­ers may grap­ple with the run­away effects of AI and brain enhance­ment on geopol­i­tics. Companies…

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May “industry review boards” contribute to the wider adoption of virtual and augmented reality for physical and mental health?

By SharpBrains | September 11, 2019

__________ Indus­try review boards are need­ed to pro­tect VR user pri­va­cy (World Eco­nom­ic Forum blog): “It seemed like a game when Riley first start­ed the vir­tu­al real­i­ty (VR) maze … A month after play­ing the game, Riley was turned down for a new life-insur­ance pol­i­cy. Giv­en his excel­lent health, he couldn’t under­stand why. Sev­er­al appeals later,…

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E‑therapy stepping up to fill mental health gaps

By SharpBrains | January 21, 2015

. Tele­health ven­dor seized oppor­tu­ni­ty from Kaiser strike (Health­Care Dive): “When Kaiser’s men­tal health work­ers went on strike to protest what they claim is Kaiser’s pol­i­cy of under­staffing their facil­i­ties in order to boost their prof­its, it left a void for the thou­sands of patients who relied on Kaiser’s staff for men­tal health ser­vices. Act­ing as…

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