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The way we approach Mental Health today is broken beyond repair. The question is, what comes next, and how fast can we get there?

June 3, 2020 by SharpBrains

The hid­den links between men­tal dis­or­ders (Nature):

In 2018, psy­chi­a­trist Oleguer Plana-Ripoll was wrestling with a puz­zling fact about men­tal dis­or­ders. He knew that many indi­vid­u­als have mul­ti­ple con­di­tions — anx­i­ety and depres­sion, say, or schiz­o­phre­nia and bipo­lar dis­or­der. He want­ed to know how com­mon it was to have more than one diag­no­sis, so he got his hands on a data­base con­tain­ing the med­ical details of around 5.9 mil­lion Dan­ish citizens.

He was tak­en aback by what he found. Every sin­gle men­tal dis­or­der pre­dis­posed the patient to every oth­er men­tal dis­or­der — no mat­ter how dis­tinct the symp­toms. “We knew that comor­bid­i­ty was impor­tant, but we didn’t expect to find asso­ci­a­tions for all pairs,” says Plana-Ripoll, who is based at Aarhus Uni­ver­si­ty in Denmark.

[Read more…] about The way we approach Men­tal Health today is bro­ken beyond repair. The ques­tion is, what comes next, and how fast can we get there?

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: anxiety, biological, bipolar-disorder, depression, Genetics, JAMA Psychiatry, mental illness, mental-disorders, National-Institute-of-Mental-Health, neuroanatomy, psychopathology, Research Domain Criteria, schizophrenia

Witnessing an explosion of consumer-facing neurotechnologies to (potentially) harness lifelong neuroplasticity

January 30, 2017 by Apoorv Mathur

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Last week I shared some key sci­en­tif­ic, tech­no­log­i­cal and invest­ment trends rev­o­lu­tion­iz­ing Brain Health, based on my par­tic­i­pa­tion at the 2016 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit, and promised a sec­ond arti­cle more focused on the tech­nol­o­gy side of things.

Here it is 🙂

Just a few weeks after the Sharp­Brains Sum­mit I also attend­ed CES 2017. While I enjoyed the myr­i­ad emerg­ing tech­nolo­gies –autonomous vehi­cles, robot­ics, drones, aug­ment­ed and vir­tu­al real­i­ty head­sets, voice acti­vat­ed every­thing– I was most­ly struck by a firm named Halo Neu­ro­science. They have a fas­ci­nat­ing wear­able prod­uct, Halo Sport, claim­ing to accel­er­ate gains in strength, explo­sive­ness, endurance, and mus­cle mem­o­ry, improv­ing the brain’s response to ath­let­ic train­ing. It uses tDCS (tran­scra­nial direct cur­rent stim­u­la­tion), essen­tial­ly prim­ing move­ment-relat­ed cir­cuits of the brain to become more recep­tive to stim­uli, help­ing the brain wire in the prac­tice for improved future response.

The cutting edge of applied neuroplasticity

Both con­fer­ences allowed me to see the cut­ting edge of [Read more…] about Wit­ness­ing an explo­sion of con­sumer-fac­ing neu­rotech­nolo­gies to (poten­tial­ly) har­ness life­long neuroplasticity

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Peak Performance, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Akili, applied neuroplasticity, AR, Arrowsmith Program, Arrowsmith School, artificial intelligence, Brain Monitoring, brain-functioning, Brain-Plasticity, BrainHQ, CC-ABHI, Claritas Mindsciences, Click Therapeutics, clinical, clinical neuropsychology, cogmed, Cogniciti, cognitive therapeutics, cognitive therapies, cognitive-assessments, cognitive-enhancement, Cognitive-Training, DBS, Educational Testing Service, EEG, Emotiv, ETS, Halo Neuroscience, Halo Sport, Headspace, IBM Watson, Institute of Coaching, Judson Brewer, Kavli Prize, Lifelong Neuroplasticity, Lumosity, meditation, mental-exercises, Michael-Merzenich, MindMaze, MyndYou, National-Institute-of-Mental-Health, Neurofeedback, neuroplasticity, Neuropsychology, neurostimulation, neurotechnologies, NIMH, Pear Therapeutics, Pearson, physiological, Posit-Science, RehaCom, SBT Group, sensorimotor, The Synapse System, TMS, UC-Berkeley, UCSF, VR, Watson Centre for Brain Health

Best practices to fund, develop and commercialize evidence-based mental health innovation

December 30, 2016 by SharpBrains

Best prac­tices to fund, devel­op and com­mer­cial­ize evi­dence-based inno­va­tion from Sharp­Brains

In this ses­sion we dis­cuss key lessons learned for sci­en­tists and start-ups to suc­cess­ful­ly bring to mar­ket evi­dence-based inno­v­a­tive solu­tions. We will present non-dilu­tive fund­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties and com­mer­cial­iza­tion resources offered through the US small busi­ness research pro­grams, and a sci­en­tist and inven­tor turned ser­i­al entre­pre­neur wrap-ups the day shar­ing insights from his pre­vi­ous venture–funded by the NIMH and sold to McKesson–and his cur­rent strat­e­gy and vision.

  • Chair: Dr. Ali­son Fen­ney, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of the Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy Indus­try Organization
  • Dr. Mar­garet Grabb, SBIR/STTR Pro­gram Direc­tor at the Nation­al Insti­tute of Men­tal Health (NIMH)
  • Dr. Rex Jakobovits, Founder of Viva­l­og Tech­nolo­gies and Experiad

These pre­sen­ta­tions took place at the 2016 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: Rein­vent­ing Brain Health in the Dig­i­tal Age (Decem­ber 6–8th, 2016).

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Experiad, innovation, McKesson, Mental-Health, National-Institute-of-Mental-Health, Neurotechnology-Industry-Organization, NIMH, Vivalog Technologies

Empowering communities with better brain health tools and literacy

December 5, 2016 by SharpBrains

brain-health-literacy—–

We are look­ing for­ward to the 2016 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit start­ing tomor­row, Tues­day Decem­ber 6th!

40 amaz­ing speak­ers, 10+ ses­sions includ­ing the crit­i­cal and often over­looked need to Empow­er com­mu­ni­ties with bet­ter brain health tools and lit­er­a­cy – What role should com­mu­ni­ty and care­givers play in brain health and men­tal health, and how can tech­nol­o­gy aid their efforts–for exam­ple in shar­ing rel­e­vant data with/ from doc­tors? How are we going to edu­cate and empow­er every­one with essen­tial knowl­edge and best practices?

  • Chair: Dr. Peter White­house, Pro­fes­sor of Neu­rol­o­gy at Case West­ern Reserve University
  • Dr. Eliz­a­beth Zelin­s­ki, Direc­tor of the Cen­ter for Dig­i­tal Aging at the Davis School of Gerontology
  • Michael Meagher, Pres­i­dent of Cogniciti
  • Dr. Jen­ni Pacheco, Sci­en­tif­ic Pro­gram Man­ag­er at the Nation­al Insti­tute of Men­tal Health (NIMH)
  • Dr. Neal Cohen, clin­i­cal psy­chol­o­gist at The Synapse System

Learn more & Reg­is­ter Here (reg­is­tra­tion will close in just a few hours, so please hur­ry up if interested)

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: brain, Brain-health, Case-Western-Reserve-University, Cogniciti, gerontology, health, literacy, National-Institute-of-Mental-Health, synapse

Announcement: 12 new world-class Speakers confirmed @ 2016 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (December 6–8th)

September 30, 2016 by SharpBrains

global_conversationWe’re hon­ored to announce 12 new world-class speak­ers at the upcom­ing 2016 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: Rein­vent­ing Brain Health in the Dig­i­tal Age (Decem­ber 6–8th). More to come…this may well become the most diverse and stim­u­lat­ing brain­storm­ing on the present and future of brain health and enhancement!

We can’t wait to hear from:

  • Alexan­dra More­house, CMO at Ban­ner Health
  • Dr. Corey McCann, CEO of Pear Ther­a­peu­tics
  • Dr. Gahan Pan­d­i­na, Senior Direc­tor, Ven­ture Leader at Janssen Research & Development
  • Dr. Jud­son Brew­er, Founder & Research Lead of Clar­i­tas Mindsciences
  • Dr. Lara Boyd, Direc­tor of the Brain Behav­ior Lab at the Uni­ver­si­ty of British Columbia
  • Dr. Mar­garet Grabb, Chief of SBIR/STTR pro­grams at the Nation­al Insti­tute of Men­tal Health (NIMH)
  • Dr. Michael Merzenich, Win­ner of the 2016 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience
  • Nikhil Sri­ra­man, IP Ana­lyst at Sharp­Brains
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  • Richard Varn, Direc­tor of the Cen­ter for Advanced Tech­nol­o­gy and Neu­ro­science at Edu­ca­tion­al Test­ing Ser­vice (ETS)
  • Ron Riesen­bach, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of the Cana­di­an Cen­tre for Aging and Brain Health Inno­va­tion (CC-ABHI)
  • Dr. San­dra Bond Chap­man, Founder and Direc­tor, Cen­ter for Brain­Health at The Uni­ver­si­ty of Texas at Dallas
  • Tan Le, CEO of Emo­tiv

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Banner Health, brain-enhancement, Brain-health, CC-ABHI, Center for BrainHealth, Claritas Mindsciences, Educational Testing Service, Emotiv, Janssen Research & Development, National-Institute-of-Mental-Health, NIMH, Pear Therapeutics

Dr. Thomas Insel, NIMH Director, to speak @ 2014 SharpBrains Virtual Summit

October 2, 2014 by SharpBrains

Tom InselWe are proud to share that Dr. Thomas Insel, Direc­tor of the Nation­al Insti­tute of Men­tal Health and neu­rotech­nol­o­gy vision­ary, will open the 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit on Tues­day, Octo­ber 28th.

Pri­or to this appoint­ment at NIMH, Dr. Insel was Pro­fes­sor of Psy­chi­a­try at Emory Uni­ver­sity, where he was found­ing direc­tor of the Cen­ter for Behav­ioral Neu­ro­science. He has pub­lished over 250 sci­en­tific arti­cles and four books, served on numer­ous aca­d­e­mic, sci­en­tific, and pro­fes­sional com­mit­tees and boards, and is a recip­i­ent of sev­eral awards, includ­ing the Out­stand­ing Ser­vice Award from the U.S. Pub­lic Health Ser­vice. Dr. Insel grad­u­ated from the com­bined B.A.-M.D. pro­gram at Boston Uni­ver­sity, did his intern­ship at Berk­shire Med­ical Cen­ter, Mass­a­chu­setts, and his res­i­dency at the Lan­g­ley Porter Neu­ropsy­chi­atric Insti­tute at the Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia, San Francisco.

–> Explore the Agen­da at 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit, and con­sid­er join­ing us Octo­ber 28–30th!

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: National-Institute-of-Mental-Health, Neurotechnology, NIMH, Thomas Insel

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