UCLA launches major mental health study collecting & analyzing data from Apple wearables to better understand depression and anxiety

By SharpBrains | August 11, 2020

Apple and UCLA kick off a three-year depres­sion study (CNBC): UCLA on Tues­day said it is launch­ing a three-year study to bet­ter under­stand how fac­tors such as sleep, phys­i­cal activ­i­ty, heart rate and dai­ly rou­tines impact symp­toms of depres­sion and anx­i­ety. UCLA is work­ing with Apple to design the study, which will use data collected…

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Update: The latest research and noninvasive neurotechnologies for brain health and mental fitness

By SharpBrains | May 29, 2020

Time for a new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains’ e‑newsletter! 1. Food for (non­par­ti­san) Thought: Should heads of state and can­di­dates to high office pass a cognitive/ men­tal fit­ness test? 2. A school psy­chol­o­gist shares good tips to sup­port our kids and, yes, man­age our own stress. Three Ss to reduce the stress of “home­school­ing” our kids: Sim­pli­fy, Structure,…

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Mindstrong Health raises $100M to transform how we measure and promote mental health

By SharpBrains | May 26, 2020

Mind­strong scores $100M to mon­i­tor well­ness via smart­phone behav­iors (Mobi­Health News): This morn­ing dig­i­tal men­tal health plat­form Mind­strong scored a whop­ping $100 mil­lion in Series C fund­ing. While Mind­strong has a his­to­ry of sol­id fund­ing rounds, this amount will more than dou­ble its total fund­ing. In 2017 it got its first $14 mil­lion cash infusion.…

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Mindstrong Health recruits slew of Silicon Valley talent

By SharpBrains | December 12, 2019

_______ Mind­strong Health Expands Exec­u­tive Team to Advance Tech­nol­o­gy for New Vir­tu­al Men­tal Health Care Mod­el (press release): “Mind­strong Health, a health­care inno­va­tion com­pa­ny ded­i­cat­ed to trans­form­ing men­tal health through inno­va­tions in dig­i­tal mea­sure­ment and vir­tu­al care mod­els, today announced the addi­tion of ten senior exec­u­tives to its lead­er­ship team includ­ing CEO Daniel Graf, who…

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Rethinking and Retooling Brain Health and Mental Health

By SharpBrains | July 12, 2019

Rethink­ing and Retool­ing Brain Health and Men­tal Health from Sharp­Brains We hope you enjoy this slid­edeck sup­port­ing two ses­sions held at the 2019 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: The Future of Brain Health (March 7–9th).  Full record­ings are avail­able for pur­chase here. 8–8.45am. Rethink­ing and Retool­ing Brain Health and Men­tal Health  Dr. Tom Insel, Co-founder and President…

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