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Dr. Albert Kwon, CEO of Brainnovations Winner AUGMENTx, wants to harness Augmented Reality to significantly ease access to Neurological Rehabilitation Therapies

January 30, 2018 by Alvaro Fernandez

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Albert, what sur­prised you the most from the Judges’ ques­tions and feed­back dur­ing the Brain­no­va­tions Pitch Contest?

It was a pleas­ant sur­prise to receive so many votes and such great feed­back, which solid­i­fied my con­vic­tion that there is a great need to cre­ate new ther­a­py options for stroke patients and oth­er neu­ro­log­i­cal injuries, espe­cial­ly giv­en our aging pop­u­la­tion.  Med­ical sys­tems world­wide will strug­gle to han­dle the grow­ing bur­den of chron­ic ill­ness­es unless we start act­ing soon.

In a nut­shell, what is the core idea behind AUG­MEN­Tx?

The core idea is to lever­age visu­al-cog­ni­tive and visu­al-motor/sen­so­ry con­nec­tions of the brain to enhance per­for­mance in dis­ease states.  For exam­ple, mir­ror ther­a­py takes advan­tage of the mir­ror neu­ron path­way to improve post-stroke motor recov­ery and to alle­vi­ate phan­tom limb pain in limb amputees.  And we believe that these ther­a­pies can be deliv­ered on dig­i­tized AR plat­forms, instead of being always con­fined to few spe­cial­ized phys­i­cal reha­bil­i­ta­tion cen­ters.  Why not have them be acces­si­ble from the patient’s home [Read more…] about Dr. Albert Kwon, CEO of Brain­no­va­tions Win­ner AUG­MEN­Tx, wants to har­ness Aug­ment­ed Real­i­ty to sig­nif­i­cant­ly ease access to Neu­ro­log­i­cal Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Therapies

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: aging, aging-population, Albert Kwon, augmented reality, augmented reality therapy platform, AUGMENTx, Brain-health, Brainnovations, chronic-illness, digital therapeutics, hackathon, healthcare, IoT, medical, mirror neuron, mirror therapy, mobile, neurological, neurological rehabilitation, phantom limb pain, physician, rehab, rehabilitation, smartphones, stroke patients, technology, therapy platform, wearables

Please help us spread the word about neuroplasticity & brain health innovation

April 13, 2017 by SharpBrains

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Hun­dreds of com­pa­nies around the globe–now includ­ing Elon Musk’s Neu­ralink and even Facebook–are research­ing and devel­op­ing new ways to help brain own­ers be smarter, sharp­er, and healthier.

What explains this flur­ry of activ­i­ty? Where may it be headed?

To help you under­stand what’s going on, let me high­light five key facts that emerged from the recent Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit:

Fact 1. There are 7.5 bil­lion human brains out there, and every­one needs help
Fact 2. Life­long neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty means all those brains can “sculpt” themselves
Fact 3. Mobile, sens­ing, wear­able tech­nolo­gies, cou­pled with AI, pro­vide a new plat­form to har­ness that neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty for good
Fact 4. Entre­pre­neur­ship and invest­ments are fuel­ing accel­er­at­ed growth
Fact 5. Pro­fes­sion­als are step­ping up to help edu­cate con­sumers and patients

 

“The future is already here — it’s just not very even­ly dis­trib­uted” — essay­ist William Gibson.

 

Well, then why don’t we take on that dis­tri­b­u­tion chal­lenge and appro­pri­ate­ly spread the knowl­edge and the tools 🙂

Please read the arti­cle 5 Facts You Need To Know To Under­stand, Nav­i­gate And Enjoy The Dig­i­tal Brain Health Rev­o­lu­tion in your favorite com­mu­ni­ty, and please share the arti­cle with your friends and colleagues!

  • Read and share over at LinkedIn
  • Read and share over at The Huff­in­g­ton Post
  • Read and share over at Medi­um
  • Read and share here at Sharp­Brains

 

Also, if you want to go much deep­er into these facts and what they mean for the future of brain health and brain enhance­ment, please Reg­is­ter soon to Access 40+ Hours of Ses­sion Record­ings from 100+ Brain Experts (offer expires on May 1st; 10%-off dis­count code: sharp2017)

Kind regards,

The Sharp­Brains Team

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: AI, brain-enhancement, Brain-health, Facebook, human brains, innovation, mobile, Neuralink, neuroplasticity, sensing, technology, wearable

Next: Harnessing information and communications technology (ICT) to address mental health challenges affecting 700 million people today

August 23, 2016 by SharpBrains

Global mental healthMak­ing Men­tal Health a Glob­al Pri­or­i­ty (The Dana Foundation):

“Who hasn’t felt a sense of loss or detach­ment from our fam­i­lies, friends, and reg­u­lar rou­tines, or expe­ri­enced ner­vous­ness and anx­i­ety about changes in our per­son­al and pro­fes­sion­al lives? [Read more…] about Next: Har­ness­ing infor­ma­tion and com­mu­ni­ca­tions tech­nol­o­gy (ICT) to address men­tal health chal­lenges affect­ing 700 mil­lion peo­ple today

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: abuse, anxiety, depression, diagnosis, health, healthcare, Information and communications technology, mental-disorders, Mental-Health, mobile, monitoring, screening, technology, treatment, World Health Organization, World-Bank

Best practices to assess and enhance brain functions via mobile devices and wearables

October 21, 2014 by SharpBrains

2014_SharpBrains_Virtual_Summit_Shaping the Practice and the Future of Brain FitnessDon’t miss the ses­sion Best prac­tices to assess and enhance brain func­tion via mobile devices and wear­ables at the 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit next week, featuring:

  • Corin­na E. Lath­an, Founder and CEO of Anthro­Tron­ix (just received FDA clear­ance)
  • Eddie Mar­tucci, VP Research & Devel­op­ment at Akili Inter­ac­tive Labs
  • Alex Doman, Co-Founder of Sleep Genius
  • Joan Sev­er­son, Pres­i­dent of Dig­i­tal Arte­facts (devel­op­er of BrainBaseline)
  • Chair: Jayne Plun­kett, Mem­ber of the Group Man­age­ment Board for Swiss Re

[Read more…] about Best prac­tices to assess and enhance brain func­tions via mobile devices and wearables

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Akili Inter­ac­tive Labs, AnthroTronix, brain func­tion, BrainBaseline, Dig­i­tal Artefacts, mobile, sleep genius, wearables

Training our brains’ executive control to reduce rumination and improve mood

June 13, 2014 by SharpBrains

happybrainIsraeli com­put­er ‘game’ teach­es brain to be hap­pi­er (Haaretz):

“There are peo­ple who think dwelling on their emo­tions is help­ful, view­ing it as a kind of wrestling match with their inner demons. But accord­ing to psy­chol­o­gists, it’s [Read more…] about Train­ing our brains’ exec­u­tive con­trol to reduce rumi­na­tion and improve mood

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: anxiety treatment, brain, Brain-Training, cognitive-bias training, cognitive-control, Cognitive-Training, computer, depression-treatment, emotional-regulation, Emotions, improve mood, Israel, mental-disorders, mobile, psychologists, rumination

Update: New brain science leads to new tools and to new thinking

October 31, 2012 by SharpBrains

We often view mem­o­ry, think­ing, emo­tions, as com­plete­ly sep­a­rate enti­ties, but they tru­ly are part of the same process. So, if we want to improve brain health, we need to pay atten­tion to the “weak link” in that process. In today’s soci­ety, man­ag­ing stress and neg­a­tive emo­tions is often that weak link, as we dis­cuss dur­ing Octo­ber Q&A ses­sion with par­tic­i­pants in Sharp­Brains’ new e‑course. Time now for Sharp­Brains’ Octo­ber 2012 eNewslet­ter, fea­tur­ing new sci­ence, new resources and new thinking.

New sci­ence:

  • Why Both aer­o­bic and cog­ni­tive exer­cise pro­mote brain health
  • Beta amy­loid build-up in the brain may increase risk of cog­ni­tive impair­ment more than hav­ing “Alzheimer’s gene”
  • Sur­vey: 40% who dis­con­tin­ue ADHD med­ica­tion treat­ment con­cerned about loss of self
  • Dri­ving with satel­lite nav­i­ga­tion con­tributes to inat­ten­tion­al blindness
  • SSRI anti­de­pres­sants linked to increased risk of stroke

New tools:

  • Can biofeed­back-based videogames help kids reg­u­late anger and emotions?
  • Mon­i­tor­ing cog­ni­tion via mobile appli­ca­tions: iPad app analyzed
  • Biofeed­back now a “Lev­el 1 — Best Sup­port” inter­ven­tion for atten­tion & hyper­ac­tiv­i­ty behaviors
  • Com­bin­ing non-inva­sive brain stim­u­la­tion with cog­ni­tive train­ing to treat Alzheimer’s Disease
  • The Dig­i­tal Future of Men­tal Health
  • New self-paced course: How to Be Your Own Brain Fit­ness Coach

New think­ing:

  • Can brain train­ing reduce can­cer risk?
  • Har­ness­ing neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty to dri­ve and repair brain development
  • Mas­ter a new lan­guage and grow hip­pocam­pus and cere­bral cortex
  • Mea­sur­ing and treat­ing Chemo Brain
  • Medicare to update reim­burse­ment cri­te­ria for degen­er­a­tive dis­eases such as Alzheimer’s, MS, Parkinson’s disease
  • Octo­ber Q&A ses­sion with par­tic­i­pants in Sharp­Brains new e‑course

That’s it for now. Have a Hap­py Halloween!

Pic cour­tesy of Big­Stock­Pho­to

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, SharpBrains Monthly eNewsletter Tagged With: ADHD-medication, aerobic-exercise, antidepressants, beta-amyloid, biofeedback, Brain-health, brain-stimulation, Brain-Training, cancer risk, cognitive-exercise, Cognitive-impairment, Cognitive-Training, digital health, iPad app, Mental-Health, mobile, monitoring cognition, neuroplasticity, videogames

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