Update: Mind. Learn. Eat. Shape. Play

By SharpBrains | September 30, 2010

You may find that too much media cov­er­age on how to take good care of our brains is con­fus­ing, if not poten­tial­ly mis­lead­ing. In The True Sto­ry — is men­tal exer­cise good, bad, or irrel­e­vant, Dr. Pas­cale Mich­e­lon dis­sects for you a recent large study which was large­ly report­ed as bad news when in fact it brings…

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Innovation: Get Therapy through your iPhone

By SharpBrains | September 28, 2010

Excel­lent arti­cle about an emerg­ing “small rev­o­lu­tion” in men­tal health care: Mari­enti­na Got­sis, media lab man­ag­er at USC, start­ed think­ing about design­ing apps with ther­a­peu­tic poten­tial when she real­ized that her phone had joined her wal­let and keys on the small list of things she nev­er left home with­out. “It’s what keeps peo­ple con­nect­ed, functional,…

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Medicine 2.0: the impact of web 2.0 on healthcare?

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 10, 2008

Wel­come to the 30th edi­tion of Med­i­cine 2.0, the blog car­ni­val devot­ed to arti­cles that ana­lyze the cur­rent and poten­tial impact of web 2.0 tech­nolo­gies on med­i­cine and health­care. “Med­i­cine 2.0” 101 The first ques­tion is, of course, “What exact­ly is Med­i­cine 2.0?”. The sec­ond, “Who cares?”. The third, “Why?” Anthro­pol­o­gists are here to help. Who…

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