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Coming soon near you: Smartphones, fridges and cars with emotional intelligence

June 15, 2017 by SharpBrains

Illus­tra­tion: Affectiva

Wouldn’t You Like Alexa Bet­ter if It Knew When It Was Annoy­ing You? (IEEE Spectrum):

“What could your com­put­er, phone, or oth­er gad­get do dif­fer­ent­ly if it knew how you were feeling?

Rana el Kaliou­by, founder and CEO of Affec­ti­va, is con­sid­er­ing the pos­si­bil­i­ties of such a world [Read more…] about Com­ing soon near you: Smart­phones, fridges and cars with emo­tion­al intelligence

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Affectiva, anxiety, autism, baseline, depression, emotional intelligence technology, emotional-intelligence, mental healthcare, mental state, smart phones, smartphones

Update: To honor Brain Awareness Week 2017, let’s highlight 10 Key Facts To Harness Neuroplasticity And Improve Brain Fitness

March 23, 2017 by SharpBrains

– Giant neu­ron iden­ti­fied in mouse brain via nov­el brain imag­ing tech­nique. Study linked below.

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Last week was Brain Aware­ness Week, so let’s first of all dis­cuss these 10 Key Facts to Har­ness Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty & Improve Brain Fit­ness com­ing from the hun­dreds of sci­en­tif­ic and med­ical stud­ies we ana­lyzed to pre­pare the book The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness: How to Improve Brain Health and Per­for­mance at Any Age.

And here’s the rest of Sharp­Brains’ e‑newsletter explor­ing the lat­est in brain health and men­tal performance.

New research:

  • Mind­ful­ness train­ing for teach­ers can result in a bet­ter learn­ing envi­ron­ment for students
  • Rates of ADHD diag­no­sis and med­ica­tion treat­ment con­tin­ue to increase substantially
  • New brain imag­ing meth­ods help detect giant, super­con­nect­ed neu­rons such as this one (in a mouse’s brain)

New thinking:

  • Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty as seen by one of its ear­li­est sci­en­tif­ic pro­po­nents: Neu­ro­science pio­neer San­ti­a­go Ramón y Cajal
  • Cana­di­an teacher Mag­gie Mac­Don­nell wins annu­al $1M Glob­al Teacher Prize
  • 100 new­ly rec­og­nized Young Glob­al Lead­ers train their brains (and oth­ers’) by tack­ling com­plex chal­lenges with inno­v­a­tive approaches

New tools (via SharpBrains’ analysis of neurotech patents):

  • The future of per­son­al­ized brain stim­u­la­tion via enhanced cog­ni­tive-emo­tive profiles
  • Tai­lor­ing com­put­ing expe­ri­ence based on user’s men­tal state and qual­i­ty of attention
  • Treat­ing sleep-relat­ed breath­ing conditions–such as sleep apnea–via EEG brain­wave analysis
  • Facil­i­tat­ing clin­i­cal treat­ments via Tran­scra­nial Mag­net­ic Stim­u­la­tion (TMS)

 

Final­ly, here’s a brain teas­er to test your pat­tern recog­ni­tion and oth­er cog­ni­tive skills: The Emp­ty Tri­an­gle.

 

Have a nice Spring!

 

The Sharp­Brains Team

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Filed Under: Brain Teasers, Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: adhd, Brain-Fitness, Brain-health, Brain-Imaging, brain-performance, brain-stimulation, brain-teaser, brainwave, cognitive-ability, cognitive-skills, EEG, Learning, mental state, mental-performance, mindfulness, neuroplasticity, TMS, training

Tailoring computing experience based on user’s mental state and quality of attention: Key neurotechnology patent #30

March 14, 2017 by SharpBrains

Automated selection
– Illus­tra­tive image from U.S. Patent No. 7,395,507

Today we high­light a fas­ci­nat­ing 2008 patent assigned to Microsoft, dis­cussing assess­ment tech­niques such as pupil track­ing or head ori­en­ta­tion sen­sors to iden­ti­fy where and what the user is focused on–and what types of  infor­ma­tion and/ or noti­fi­ca­tions to dis­play accordingly.

U.S. Patent No. 7,395,507: Auto­mat­ed selec­tion of appro­pri­ate infor­ma­tion based on a com­put­er user’s context.

  • Assignee(s): Microsoft Corporation
  • Inventor(s): James O. Robarts, Dan Newell, Ken­neth H. Abbott
  • Tech­nol­o­gy Cat­e­go­ry: Neuro-monitoring
  • Issue Date: July 1, 2008

SharpBrains’ Take:

The ‘507 patent dis­clos­es meth­ods for assess­ing a user’s men­tal state and more broad­ly the user’s con­text, to dis­cern whether or not to present the users with a mes­sage (e.g., an adver­tise­ment). [Read more…] about Tai­lor­ing com­put­ing expe­ri­ence based on user’s men­tal state and qual­i­ty of atten­tion: Key neu­rotech­nol­o­gy patent #30

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: assessment, attention, brain data, brain health assessment, Brain-health, mental state, Microsoft, Microsoft Corporation, neuro-monitoring, neuro-technology, neurological, patent, psychological

Next: Technology to enable patient-centered, collaborative behavioral health and chronic care management

October 15, 2015 by SharpBrains

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Tech Is Dri­ving Col­lab­o­ra­tion In Behav­ioral Health (TechCrunch):

“Col­lab­o­ra­tion amongst providers is crit­i­cal in all aspects of med­i­cine, but nowhere is this more true than in behav­ioral health (men­tal health and sub­stance use dis­or­ders), where the costs of poor col­lab­o­ra­tion are sky-high…There is a moun­tain of evi­dence to sug­gest that [Read more…] about Next: Tech­nol­o­gy to enable patient-cen­tered, col­lab­o­ra­tive behav­ioral health and chron­ic care management

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: apps, Behavioral Health, chronic care, cognitive-behavioral-therapy, disorders, Ginger.io, mental state, Mental-Health, myStrength, smartphone, substance use, wearable

The human resources frontier: enhancing wellness and productivity via better brain health

March 29, 2013 by SharpBrains

Employee-benefitsEmploy­ers turn­ing to ‘brain health’ tools to reduce stress, increase pro­duc­tiv­i­ty (HR.BLR.com):
“Brain health is not just about dis­ease. It’s not just about depres­sion or anx­i­ety,” says [Read more…] about The human resources fron­tier: enhanc­ing well­ness and pro­duc­tiv­i­ty via bet­ter brain health

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Peak Performance Tagged With: anxiety, Brain-health, depression, Leadership, mental state, productivity, Stress, stress-management, wellness

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