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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

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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

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

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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!

 

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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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:

New tools:

New think­ing:

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

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