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Startup Big Health raises $39M to universalize access to cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for anxiety and poor sleep

June 29, 2020 by SharpBrains

Big Health Hones Dig­i­tal Men­tal Health Ther­a­py With $39M Series B (Crunch­base):

“Start­up Big Health believes indi­vid­u­als can improve their men­tal health through its tech­nol­o­gy that focus­es on cog­ni­tive behav­ioral ther­a­py ver­sus med­ica­tion or the help of human therapists.

On Thurs­day it raised $39 mil­lion in a Series B financ­ing to advance that objective.

[Read more…] about Start­up Big Health rais­es $39M to uni­ver­sal­ize access to cog­ni­tive behav­ioral ther­a­py (CBT) for anx­i­ety and poor sleep

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Big Health, cognitive-behavioral-therapy, Daylight, digital health, digital mental health, medication, mental health, Sleepio, therapy

Four immediate priorities to flatten the mental distress curve

June 22, 2020 by The Conversation

The men­tal health cri­sis trig­gered by COVID-19 is esca­lat­ing rapid­ly. One exam­ple: When com­pared to a 2018 sur­vey, U.S. adults are now eight times more like­ly to meet the cri­te­ria for seri­ous men­tal dis­tress. One-third of Amer­i­cans report clin­i­cal­ly sig­nif­i­cant symp­toms of anx­i­ety or clin­i­cal depres­sion, accord­ing to a late May 2020 release of Cen­sus Bureau data.

While all pop­u­la­tion groups are affect­ed, this cri­sis is espe­cial­ly dif­fi­cult for stu­dents, par­tic­u­lar­ly those pushed off col­lege cam­pus­es and now fac­ing eco­nom­ic uncer­tain­ty; adults with chil­dren at home, strug­gling to jug­gle work and home-school­ing; and front-line health care work­ers, risk­ing their lives to save oth­ers. [Read more…] about Four imme­di­ate pri­or­i­ties to flat­ten the men­tal dis­tress curve

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: anxiety, clinical depression, cognitive-behavioral-therapy, crisis, mental distress, mental health, mental health crisis, mental health curve, telehealth, telehealth therapy, therapy

Virtual-reality gaming + affordable biofeedback = Anxiety therapy for all?

June 10, 2020 by SharpBrains

Videogame Tech­nol­o­gy Could Bring Biofeed­back Ther­a­py to the Liv­ing Room (The Wall Street Journal):

For decades, use of biofeed­back to help suf­fer­ers of anx­i­ety, among oth­er psy­cho­log­i­cal con­di­tions, has large­ly been lim­it­ed to clin­i­cal set­tings with expensive—and some­what tedious—medical equip­ment. Now, with an assist from devel­op­ers of vir­tu­al-real­i­ty games, effec­tive ther­a­peu­tic biofeed­back is becom­ing more afford­able, acces­si­ble and engaging.

Tests of a new gen­er­a­tion of prod­ucts that com­bine advances in wear­able bio­met­ric sen­sors with the immersive—and fun—qualities of vir­tu­al-real­i­ty gam­ing have increas­ing­ly demon­strat­ed effec­tive­ness in help­ing anx­ious sub­jects achieve states of calm, among oth­er ther­a­peu­tic uses.

[Read more…] about Vir­tu­al-real­i­ty gam­ing + afford­able biofeed­back = Anx­i­ety ther­a­py for all?

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: anxiety, biofeedback, biometric sensors, Covid-19 pandemic, DEEP, Psychology, therapy, videogames, virtual-reality

Study finds promise in smell training to harness neuroplasticity and improve brain health in older adults

March 18, 2019 by SharpBrains

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An impaired sense of smell can sig­nal cog­ni­tive decline, but ‘smell train­ing’ could help (The Conversation):

“As we age, we often have prob­lems with our abil­i­ty to smell (called olfac­to­ry dys­func­tion). Old­er peo­ple might not be able to iden­ti­fy an odour or dif­fer­en­ti­ate one odour from anoth­er. In some cas­es they might not be able to detect an odour at all.

Odour iden­ti­fi­ca­tion dif­fi­cul­ties are com­mon in peo­ple with neu­rode­gen­er­a­tive dis­eases, includ­ing Alzheimer’s dis­ease [Read more…] about Study finds promise in smell train­ing to har­ness neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty and improve brain health in old­er adults

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: anosmia, brain health, brain training, cognitive-tasks, dementia, neurodegenerative, neuroplasticity, nose, older-adults, regeneration, rhinology, smell, therapy

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

June 25, 2018 by Greater Good Science Center

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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 our smart­phones. Users are flock­ing to mind­ful­ness apps in hopes of cul­ti­vat­ing kind atten­tion to their own thoughts and feel­ings, and of reap­ing the men­tal and phys­i­cal ben­e­fits that go along with mindfulness.

But do they work? What does sci­ence say about mind­ful­ness apps? [Read more…] about Want to feel more Calm, get some Head­space, and prac­tice Mind­ful­ness Daily?

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: brain-training-app, Calm, digital, Headspace, Lumosity, meditation, mindfulness, mindfulness apps, Mindfulness Daily, mindfulness-based, smartphone, stress-reduction, therapy

Next: Virtual reality therapies to help refine and spread mental health care

September 28, 2016 by SharpBrains

Vir­tu­al real­i­ty ther­a­py is com­ing (The Wash­ing­ton Post):

“Tech­nol­o­gists have called 2016 the year of vir­tu­al real­i­ty [Read more…] about Next: Vir­tu­al real­i­ty ther­a­pies to help refine and spread men­tal health care

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: augmented reality, healthcare, mental health care, Mental-Health, neurotechnologies, Neurotechnology, therapeutic, therapy, virtual-reality

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