Five reasons to welcome Digital Mental Health innovations

By SharpBrains | November 20, 2018

___ Map­ping out the Men­tal Health start­up ecosys­tem (Medi­um): “Today, 1 in 5 peo­ple have a diag­nos­able men­tal ill­ness, and 1 in 20 peo­ple have dif­fi­cul­ty lead­ing their every­day life due to men­tal ill­ness. How­ev­er before even talk­ing about the preva­lence of the issue?…one must real­ize how inef­fec­tive the cur­rent infra­struc­ture is. Here are some…

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Status quo is not enough: Common tests for Mild Cognitive Impairment lack both sensitivity and specificity

By SharpBrains | May 25, 2016

Cur­rent screen­ing meth­ods miss wor­ri­some num­ber of per­sons with mild cog­ni­tive impair­ment (Sci­enceDai­ly): “Mild cog­ni­tive impair­ment (MCI) is a slight but notice­able and mea­sur­able decline in cog­ni­tive abil­i­ties, such as remem­ber­ing names or a list of items. While changes may not be severe enough to dis­rupt dai­ly life, a clin­i­cal diagnosis 

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