Mixed reactions on the development of digital biomarkers and growth of Mindstrong Health

___ (More on the pos­i­tive side, at MIT Tech­nol­o­gy Review) The smart­phone app that can tell you’re depressed before you know it your­self: “There are about 45 mil­lion peo­ple in the US alone with a men­tal ill­ness, and those ill­ness­es and their cours­es of treat­ment can vary tremen­dous­ly. But there is some­thing most of those people…

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Study: One-week brain training can increase cognitive flexibility and reduce OCD symptoms

___ OCD symp­toms could be reduced with ‘brain-train­ing’ app, study says (UPI): “Peo­ple with obses­sive com­pul­sive dis­or­der could man­age their symp­toms, includ­ing exces­sive hand­wash­ing and con­t­a­m­i­na­tion fears, by using a “brain train­ing” app, accord­ing to its devel­op­ers. Researchers from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cam­bridge in Britain, who tested

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Brain Training vs Facebook/ Social Media: 1 — 0

___ Does Reg­u­lar Brain Train­ing Keep Sele­na Gomez at the Peak of Her Career? (YCB): “Sele­na Gomez hit the head­lines this week when she revealed to ELLE Mag­a­zine that, despite being one of the world’s most influ­en­tial celebri­ties online with 142 mil­lion fol­low­ers on Insta­gram alone, she actu­al­ly has no social media or pho­to editing…

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Sanofi Ventures leads $17M investment in Click Therapeutics, finalist @ 2017 Brainnovations Pitch Contest

Sanofi Backs Click Ther­a­peu­tics as Dig­i­tal Med­i­cines Gain Momen­tum (Xcon­o­my): “Drug mak­ers are mak­ing more bets on the nascent field of dig­i­tal med­i­cine. The lat­est exam­ple: Click Ther­a­peu­tics announced Mon­day that it grabbed a $17 mil­lion invest­ment led by Sanofi Ven­tures, the Cam­bridge, MA-based ven­ture cap­i­tal arm of the French phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal giant.

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Want to feel more Calm, get some Headspace, and practice Mindfulness Daily?

___ Let me ask again…want to feel more Calm, get some Head­space, and prac­tice Mind­ful­ness Dai­ly? There are apps for that—hundreds of them, besides the three I just men­tioned. These apps make a promise: Rather than invest­ing count­less hours and dol­lars in mind­ful­ness class­es or mind­­ful­­ness-based ther­a­py, we can choose to med­i­tate from the com­fort of…

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Update: Study finds continued birth of new neurons (neurogenesis) well into our 70s

___ Time for Sharp­Brains eNewslet­ter, bring­ing you the lat­est in in brain health and men­tal health research, tools and think­ing. Also, a quick heads-up for those based in the UK: the Impe­r­i­al Col­lege Cen­tre for Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy will host a keynote by Alvaro Fer­nan­dez in Lon­don on Wednes­day, May 30th, titled Why the Future of Brain Enhance­ment & Men­tal Health is Dig­i­tal & Per­va­sive (free;…

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