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Challenge ahead: Harnessing technology for good mental health

February 25, 2022 by Fundación Innovación Bankinter

Mak­ing tech­nol­o­gy an ally in men­tal health care (Fun­dación Inno­vación Bankinter):

Inter­est in using tech­nol­o­gy for men­tal health dates back to the mid twen­ti­eth cen­tu­ry. “Stud­ies began back in the 1960s, giv­en the grow­ing con­cern about addic­tion in chil­dren (espe­cial­ly) and adults,” clar­i­fies Álvaro Fer­nán­dez Ibáñez about the begin­ning of this discipline.

Sesame Street, the well-known Amer­i­can show, is a project that devel­oped to “mas­ter the addic­tive qual­i­ties of tele­vi­sion and do some­thing good with them“, in the words of its pro­duc­ers. As Fer­nán­dez Ibáñez points out, these pro­grams appeared to “chan­nel tech­nol­o­gy in a way that is ben­e­fi­cial to cog­ni­tive and men­tal health,” which indi­cates that this inter­est is not temporary.

But it is new in oth­er areas. For obvi­ous rea­sons, the study of the Inter­net and social net­works is much more recent than that of tele­vi­sion, and is usu­al­ly divid­ed into two major trends: [Read more…] about Chal­lenge ahead: Har­ness­ing tech­nol­o­gy for good men­tal health

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: cognitive and mental health, Internet, mental health, mental health care, Neurotechnology, non-invasive neurotechnology, pervasive, Pervasive Neurotechnology, Sesame Street, social networks, technology

Why the Future of Brain Enhancement and Mental Health is Digital and Pervasive

June 8, 2018 by Alvaro Fernandez

Why the Future of Brain Enhance­ment and Men­tal Health is Dig­i­tal and Per­va­sive from Sharp­Brains

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It was a great plea­sure to share lat­est data and insights with a fan­tas­tic com­mu­ni­ty of researchers, engi­neers, inno­va­tors and investors, host­ed by the Impe­r­i­al Col­lege Cen­tre for Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy in Lon­don. Hope you enjoy the slides!

Talk descrip­tion: As seen in patent and invest­ment trends, research find­ings and consumer/patient behav­iors, Men­tal Health and Brain Enhance­ment are rapid­ly evolv­ing in trans­for­ma­tion­al ways which some call “empow­er­ing” and some “con­tro­ver­sial.” Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, Edi­tor-in-Chief of inde­pen­dent mar­ket research firm Sharp­Brains, will present and dis­cuss the lat­est mar­ket data and fore­casts on how dig­i­tal plat­forms are poised to rev­o­lu­tion­ize brain & men­tal health diag­nos­tics, mon­i­tor­ing, ther­a­pies and enhancement.

More pub­lic events Here and upcom­ing vir­tu­al con­fer­ence Here.

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Peak Performance, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: brain-enhancement, Brain-health, digital, future, innovation, Mental-Health, Neurotechnology, pervasive

Regulating and helping shape the evolving phenomenon of Direct-to-Consumer Neuroscience

February 5, 2018 by SharpBrains

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We’re proud to share that our CEO and Edi­tor-in-Chief Alvaro Fer­nan­dez is par­tic­i­pat­ing in a fas­ci­nat­ing and time­ly 2‑day meet­ing, host­ed by The Ban­bury Cen­ter at Cold Spring Har­bor Lab­o­ra­to­ry under the theme The evolv­ing phe­nom­e­non of Direct-to-Con­sumer Neu­ro­science, to help iden­ti­fy and address key open regulatory/ eth­i­cal issues relat­ed to the growth of per­va­sive neu­rotech­nolo­gies and dig­i­tal brain health plat­forms offered/ sold direct­ly to consumers.

The event is off-the-record so we won’t be able to blog about it, but here are some resources if inter­est­ed in learn­ing more about the gen­er­al con­text for the event: [Read more…] about Reg­u­lat­ing and help­ing shape the evolv­ing phe­nom­e­non of Direct-to-Con­sumer Neuroscience

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Peak Performance, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Banbury Center, digital brain health, Direct-to-Consumer, Direct-to-consumer neuroscience, neuroscience, neurotechnologiy, pervasive

Final days to submit scalable & non-pharmacological Brain Health proposals to MIT Solve’s Brain Health Challenge

July 28, 2017 by Alvaro Fernandez

Insuf­fi­cient brain health­care is one of the most per­va­sive and mul­ti-faceted prob­lems our world faces today. From the young to the old, the rich to the poor, those liv­ing in dense cities to iso­lat­ed farm­lands, any­one can be affect­ed by brain health prob­lems. Yet, cur­rent solu­tions to this prob­lem are lim­it­ed. While some inno­va­tions have made sig­nif­i­cant strides towards improved brain health, there is a press­ing need for stronger pri­or­i­ti­za­tion of cog­ni­tive health­care and more proac­tive inno­va­tion towards pre­ven­ta­tive treat­ments. [Read more…] about Final days to sub­mit scal­able & non-phar­ma­co­log­i­cal Brain Health pro­pos­als to MIT Solve’s Brain Health Challenge

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Filed Under: Technology & Innovation Tagged With: artificial intelligence, brain diseases, Brain Health Challenge, brain healthcare, Brain-health, cognitive, cognitive healthcare, healthcare, innovation, mental well being, MIT Solve, neuroplasticity, pervasive, preventative, preventative treatments, treatments

Applying to MIT Solve? Here are 4 Ways, and 20 Resources, to Upgrade Brain Health in the Digital Age

June 29, 2017 by SharpBrains

Insuf­fi­cient brain health­care is one of the most per­va­sive and mul­ti-faceted prob­lems our world faces today. From the young to the old, the rich to the poor, those liv­ing in dense cities to iso­lat­ed farm­lands, any­one can be affect­ed by brain health prob­lems. Yet, cur­rent solu­tions to this prob­lem are lim­it­ed. While some inno­va­tions have made sig­nif­i­cant strides towards improved brain health, there is a press­ing need for stronger pri­or­i­ti­za­tion of cog­ni­tive health­care and more proac­tive inno­va­tion towards pre­ven­ta­tive treatments.

Here’s what the new MIT Solve 2017 Glob­al Chal­lenge says about brain health:

“Brain and men­tal well-being are crit­i­cal to the health and hap­pi­ness of the 7.5 bil­lion peo­ple who inhab­it our planet…shifting the con­ver­sa­tion from treat­ing brain dis­eases to improv­ing well-being may begin to dis­solve the cul­tur­al stig­ma that makes it dif­fi­cult for many to seek help.”

Con­tin­ue read­ing the arti­cle Four Ways to Upgrade Brain Health in the Dig­i­tal Age, by Sharp­Brains’ Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, with guide­lines and resources to:

  1. Pri­or­i­tize scal­able solu­tions for all
  2. Har­ness life­long neuroplasticity
  3. Har­ness per­va­sive tech­nolo­gies and arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence (AI)
  4. Edu­cate users and encour­age human-cen­tered innovation

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Filed Under: Technology & Innovation Tagged With: artificial intelligence, brain diseases, Brain Health Challenge, brain healthcare, Brain-health, cognitive, cognitive healthcare, healthcare, innovation, mental well being, MIT Solve, neuroplasticity, pervasive, preventative, preventative treatments, treatments

Neurotech gone pervasive

May 2, 2017 by SharpBrains

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This Is Your Brain on Busi­ness (For­tune):

“…here’s a sign of how quick­ly things move in neu­ro­science: Ear­li­er this year, anoth­er para­plegic man, Rodri­go Hüb­n­er Mendes, became the first per­son to dri­ve a race car sole­ly with his mind.

Some might even argue that mind con­trolled dri­ving is not as impres­sive as mak­ing par­a­lyzed peo­ple move their limbs—since for neu­ro­sci­en­tists, con­trol­ling objects thanks to cut­ting-edge brain-com­put­er inter­faces has become quite com­mon. What is note­wor­thy in Hüb­n­er Mendes’ dri­ving per­for­mance is that [Read more…] about Neu­rotech gone pervasive

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: brain, business, Emotiv, Hübner Mendes, neuroscience, neurotech, pervasive

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