Posts Tagged ‘mental-fitness’
BrainHealth Week starts today! Plus: dancing, personalized mental health, brain stimulation and more
Welcome to a new edition of SharpBrains e‑newsletter, annoucing the kick-off of BrainHealth Week and featuring some stimulating resources and teasers. #1. BrainHealth Week (February 20–24th) starts today: Explore many fun events including a daily text challenge, a talk with the always great Dr. Tom Insel, and more! #2. Without Brain Health, you do not have…
Read MoreVoice biomarker platform Sonde Health raises $19.25M to spread access to mental health monitoring and beyond
Voice analysis platform Sonde Health raises $19.25M (MobiHealthNews): AI-enabled voice technology platform Sonde Health announced it raised $19.25 million in a Series B funding round led by Partners Investment, bringing its total raise to $35.25 million … Sonde Health uses patented voice technology to detect various health conditions from biomarkers in a person’s voice, including…
Read MoreOn mental fitness beliefs, lifestyles and new tools like apps, digital therapeutics, virtual reality, “brain age gaps” and more
Welcome to a new edition of SharpBrains’ e‑newsletter, featuring timely brain & mental health news and a fun couple of math brain teasers. #1. Study on the “ABCs of Mental Health” finds that simply believing you can improve mental wellbeing helps actually improve it Beliefs matter. #2. “Digital therapeutics” vs. “Mental health apps”: A growing…
Read MoreGiven cognitive strengths and needs are diverse, what brain training may work best for each person and under which conditions?
Does ‘Brain Training’ Actually Work? (Scientific American): If there were an app on your phone that could improve your memory, would you try it? Who wouldn’t want a better memory? After all, our recollections are fragile and can be impaired by diseases, injuries, mental health conditions and, most acutely for all of us, aging.
Read MoreUpdate: Should candidates to high office should pass a cognitive/ mental fitness test?
Wow, that was a couple of very insightful discussions, via social media no less. #1. The first one was about whether heads of state and candidates to high office should pass a cognitive/ mental fitness test. Click HERE to read and discuss some of the sharpest comments, such as… “I wonder what brought this up.” “Definitely. We routinely screen…
Read MoreDebate: Should heads of state and candidates to high office pass a cognitive/ mental fitness test?
Wow, that was quite a discussion over at Facebook groups on Neuroscience, Neuroplasticity, Psychiatry & Clinical Psychology, Singularity and beyond as a response to the question Should heads of state and candidates to high office pass a cognitive/ mental fitness test? Here are (lightly edited, randomly ordered, anonymized) some of the sharpest comments among the 100+…
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