Evidence-based, employer-focused meditation program eMindful acquired by digital behavioral change firm Wondr Health

River­side com­pletes add-on invest­ment to Won­dr Health Plat­form (Pri­vate Equi­ty Wire): The River­side Com­pa­ny, a glob­al pri­vate investor focused on the small­er end of the mid­dle mar­ket, has invest­ed in eMind­ful, a provider of evi­­dence-based, mind­ful­ness pro­grammes for every­day life and chron­ic con­di­tions. The invest­ment is an add-on to Riverside’s Won­dr Health (for­mer­ly Nat­u­ral­ly Slim), a…

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Debate: Can mindfulness and meditation be harmful?

Yes (in per­haps 8% of indi­vid­u­als). Can mind­ful­ness and med­i­ta­tion be harm­ful? (Sci­ence Focus): Med­i­ta­tion has escaped both the reli­gious cells of monks and nuns and the labs of sci­en­tists. An increas­ing num­ber of peo­ple are using med­i­ta­tion apps to deal with men­tal health prob­lems, such as depres­sion and anx­i­ety. Although there is no clear estimate…

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Update: Moderate lifetime drinking may lead to lower Alzheimer-related beta amyloid deposits in the brain

__ Time for a new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains’ e‑newsletter. #1. First of all, it’s not all bad news this month. Study finds that mod­er­ate life­time drink­ing may lead to low­er Alzheimer-relat­ed beta amy­loid deposits in the brain #2. And, talk about per­son­al­ized med­i­cine! This fas­ci­nat­ing study show­ing how brain imag­ing (fMRI) + machine learn­ing + inten­sive, non-invasive…

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Meditation apps have gone mainstream in the covid-19 era

__ 1. Best med­i­ta­tion apps: prac­tice mind­ful­ness with Head­space, Calm and more (TechRadar): “The best med­i­ta­tion apps could help you to sleep bet­ter, reduce your stress lev­els and find some much-need­ed inner peace. But giv­en the sit­u­a­tion right now with Covid-19, even if med­i­ta­tion apps just give you a break from the news and a…

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Mental fitness self-care named app trend of 2018

___ This was the hottest app trend of the year (Mar­ket Watch): “Apps were all about inner peace in 2018. Apple named “self-care” its app trend of the year with its Best of 2018 list released ear­li­er this week, which high­light­ed what apps, games, movies and music were on everyone’s list — and fin­ger­tips — over the…

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Meditation apps help spread the practice

. Top Med­i­ta­tion Apps (Brain­Blog­ger): “Med­i­ta­tion is not only a hip­pie trend any­more, with more and more peo­ple becom­ing inter­est­ed in it…For many, med­i­ta­tion remains a real challenge.

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