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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Applied Neuroscience and Neurotechnology

September 30, 2019 by SharpBrains

After a very busy month, it’s time now for Sharp­Brains e‑newsletter to sum­ma­rize the lat­est ini­tia­tives, tools and ideas for life­long brain health and men­tal fit­ness — and to share a few puz­zles and illu­sions to tease your brain.

A grow­ing num­ber of class­rooms in Chi­na are equipped with arti­fi­cial-intel­li­gence cam­eras and brain-wave track­ers. Video: Crys­tal Tai for The Wall Street Journal.

New neuro-infused education and healthcare initiatives:

  • Chi­na is har­ness­ing brain-wave track­ers and arti­fi­cial-intel­li­gence to raise bet­ter (and more com­pli­ant?) students
  • Report calls for wide class­room-based adop­tion of ten brain fit­ness pro­grams designed to improve foun­da­tion­al exec­u­tive functions
  • The Nation­al Health Ser­vice (NHS) in the UK con­sid­ers adding a 5‑minute cog­ni­tive test to its annu­al health check-up
  • CVS Health: Cog­ni­tive behav­ioral ther­a­py (CBT) apps may help you more than sleep­ing pills

New neurotech and digital health tools:

  • What does the Face­book acqui­si­tion of CTRL-Labs mean for Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy and Aug­ment­ed & Vir­tu­al Reality?
  • Start­up Aur­al Ana­lyt­ics rais­es $4.3M to mon­i­tor neu­ro­log­i­cal health by ana­lyz­ing speech patterns
  • Will per­son­al­ized med­i­ta­tion apps be able to repli­cate the expe­ri­ence of work­ing with a coach?
  • IBM, VA and Total Brain to test dig­i­tal men­tal health plat­form for vet­er­ans and reservists

New thinking on brain and mental health:

  • Two great pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties with renowned neu­ropsy­chol­o­gist Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg
  • Apple/ Eli Lilly’s bet: Wear­able and mobile con­sumer devices may well help us detect cog­ni­tive impair­ment and dementia
  • May “indus­try review boards” con­tribute to the wider adop­tion of vir­tu­al and aug­ment­ed real­i­ty for phys­i­cal and men­tal health?

Finally, a few fun brain teasers for adults and kids alike 🙂

  • Tease your brain with the Her­mann Grid illusion
  • Brain teas­er to test your pat­tern recog­ni­tion: Fill the void
  • Math brain teas­er requir­ing no math — just per­cep­tion and cognition

 

Have a great month of October,

 

The Sharp­Brains Team

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Filed Under: Brain Teasers, Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Apple, Applied Neuroscience, brain health, Brain Teasers, brain teasers for adults, Brain-Fitness, CBT, cognitive test, Cognitive-impairment, Ctrl-labs, CVS Health, Eli Lilly, Elkhonon-Goldberg, Executive-Functions, IBM, mental health, neuropsychologist, Neurotechnology, NHS, Total Brain

IBM, VA and Total Brain to test digital mental health platform for veterans and reservists

September 3, 2019 by SharpBrains

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IBM unveils GRIT, a dig­i­tal solu­tion devel­oped in part­ner­ship with the Depart­ment of Vet­er­ans Affairs, to help vet­er­ans in tran­si­tion (press release):

“IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today the launch of GRIT, a dig­i­tal solu­tion for vet­er­ans, active-duty ser­vice mem­bers, and reservists that pro­vides a mobile expe­ri­ence to help them under­stand and strength­en their men­tal fit­ness, social con­nec­tions, and over­all well-being. [Read more…] about IBM, VA and Total Brain to test dig­i­tal men­tal health plat­form for vet­er­ans and reservists

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Department of Veterans Affairs, digital mental health, grit, IBM, mental-fitness, Stress, Total Brain, well-being

How to promote brain health at scale: Examples in the workplace, K12 education and consumer tech

July 25, 2019 by SharpBrains

How to pro­mote brain health at scale: Exam­ples in the work­place, K12 edu­ca­tion and con­sumer tech from Sharp­Brains

Hop­ing you enjoy this slid­edeck sup­port­ing an impor­tant dis­cus­sion dur­ing the 2019 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: The Future of Brain Health (March 7–9th).  Full record­ings are avail­able for pur­chase here.

3pm‑4.30pm. How to pro­mote brain health at scale: Exam­ples in the work­place, K12 edu­ca­tion and con­sumer tech 

  • Louis Gagnon, CEO of Total Brain
  • Dr. Gre­go­ry Rose, Direc­tor of the Cen­ter for Inte­grat­ed Research in Cog­ni­tive and Neur­al Sci­ences at SIU Med
  • Ariel Garten, Founder and Chief Evan­ge­lism Offi­cer of Inter­aX­on
  • Chaired by: Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, CEO and Edi­tor-in-Chief at Sharp­Brains

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: brain health, consumer tech, Interaxon, K12-education, promote brain health, scale, SIU Med, Total Brain, workplace

The Future of Brain Health & Wellness as seen by Joy Ventures, Total Brain, Vielight, Arrowsmith, Peak, CABHI and NeurotechX

July 16, 2019 by SharpBrains

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Dur­ing Expo Day at the 2019 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (May 7–9th), select­ed Sum­mit Spon­sors and Part­ners had the oppor­tu­ni­ty to show­case their most promis­ing brain health & well­ness ini­tia­tives and solu­tions. We hope you enjoy their slid­edecks below! (and please remem­ber that the full record­ings are avail­able for pur­chase here)

8.30am. Dr. Hag­it Alon, VP Sci­en­tif­ic Affairs of Joy Ven­tures,  pre­sent­ed their “Neu­ro-Well­ness” phi­los­o­phy and approach to invest in sci­en­tif­ic research and in entrepreneurs: 

Update by Dr. Hag­it Alon, VP Sci­en­tif­ic Affairs of Joy Ven­tures from Sharp­Brains

 

9.15am. Mar­cel Legrand, Chief Rev­enue Offi­cer of Total Brain, pro­vid­ed an overview of their new plat­form to bet­ter assess, under­stand and improve brain capacities:

Update by Mar­cel Legrand, Chief Rev­enue Offi­cer of Total Brain from Sharp­Brains

 

10am. Dr. Lew Lim, Founder & CEO of Vielight, explored the lat­est on pho­to­bio­mod­u­la­tion and brain stimulation: 

Update by Dr. Lew Lim, Founder & CEO of Vielight from Sharp­Brains

 

11am. Deb­bie Gilmore, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of The Arrow­smith Pro­gram, dis­cussed plans to bet­ter equip 100+ schools help­ing stu­dents with spe­cial needs: 

Update by Deb­bie Gilmore, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of The Arrow­smith Pro­gram from Sharp­Brains

 

11.45am. Xavier Louis, CEO of Peak, out­lined their plans to bring to mar­ket engag­ing, self-serve and evi­dence-based dig­i­tal therapeutics:

Update by Xavier Louis, CEO of Peak from Sharp­Brains

 

12.30pm. Mel Barsky, Direc­tor at Cen­tre for Aging + Brain Health Inno­va­tion (CABHI), announced a new call for inno­va­tion where CABHI will be fund­ing nov­el ideas from point-of-care work­ers that can help to improve brain health in old­er adults:

Update by Mel Barsky, Direc­tor at Cen­tre for Aging + Brain Health Inno­va­tion (CABHI) from Sharp­Brains

 

1.15pm. Syd­ney Swaine-Simon, Co-Founder of Neu­rotechX, intro­duced new learn­ing resources and their grow­ing com­mu­ni­ty of neu­rotech experts, entre­pre­neurs, and enthusiasts: 

Update by Syd­ney Swaine-Simon, Co-Founder of Neu­rotechX from Sharp­Brains
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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Arrowsmith, brain capacities, brain health, brain stimulation, brain-aging, brain-wellness, CABHI, digital therapeutics, future, Joy Ventures, neurotech, NeuroTechX, Peak, Photobiomodulation, special-needs, Total Brain, VieLight

Thank You, brain health pioneers & Summit Sponsors!

April 26, 2019 by SharpBrains

We’d like to rec­og­nize these great orga­ni­za­tions for help­ing make it pos­si­ble to hold this com­pre­hen­sive 3‑day brain­storm­ing on the future of brain health, in just ten days!

THANK YOU, and look­ing for­ward to a great vir­tu­al summit!

 

Arrowsmith Program

The Arrow­smith Pro­gram, avail­able in 80+ schools in the US, Cana­da, Aus­tralia and New Zealand, is a com­pre­hen­sive suite of cog­ni­tive pro­grams for stu­dents with learn­ing dis­abil­i­ties to train key brain func­tions involved in learning.

 

Ban­ner Health is one of the largest non­prof­it health sys­tems in the USA, employ­ing more than 50,000 staff mem­bers in 29 hos­pi­tals and oth­er set­tings rang­ing from home care and long-term care, to lab­o­ra­to­ries and reha­bil­i­ta­tion services.

 

The Cen­tre for Aging + Brain Health Inno­va­tion (CABHI), led by Bay­crest, helps inno­va­tors devel­op, dis­sem­i­nate, scale, and pro­mote adop­tion of promis­ing inno­va­tions in the aging and brain health sector.

 

Joy Ven­tures is a pri­vate­ly fund­ed invest­ment com­pa­ny found­ed by Corun­dum Open Inno­va­tion and ded­i­cat­ed to spear­head­ing the Neu­ro-Well­ness are­na by sup­port­ing break­through sci­en­tif­ic research through grants and invest­ing in star­tups and entre­pre­neurs which bring inno­v­a­tive prod­ucts to con­sumers in ways that are fun and easy to use.

 

Total Brain is a ful­ly owned sub­sidiary of Brain Resource Lim­it­ed (ASX:BRC), at the fore­front of apply­ing clin­i­cal­ly val­i­dat­ed brain assess­ment and brain train­ing to improve behav­ioral health out­comes. For­mer­ly called MyBrain­So­lu­tions, Total Brain is the world’s first brain per­for­mance mon­i­tor­ing and train­ing plat­form pow­ered by the largest stan­dard­ized brain database.

 

VieLight has a mis­sion to engi­neer and com­mer­cial­ize non-inva­sive devices based on pho­to­bio­mod­u­la­tion that are safe and effec­tive, easy to use and afford­able. It focus­es on devel­op­ing new-gen­er­a­tion home-use brain stim­u­la­tion devices that are enjoy­ing a grow­ing rep­u­ta­tion to be help­ful for men­tal acu­ity in var­i­ous presentations.

 

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2019 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: The Future of Brain Health (May 7–9th)

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Arrowsmith, Banner Health, Baycrest, brain health, brainstorming, CABHI, cognitive, Joy Ventures, Photobiomodulation, Total Brain, VieLight

10+ pioneers confirmed to Speak @ 2019 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (May 7–9th)

February 19, 2019 by SharpBrains

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We are proud to announce the first wave of con­firmed Speak­ers to share their inno­v­a­tive work and insights at the 2019 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: The Future of Brain Health, to be held May 7–9th, 2019:

Dr. Tom Insel, Co-founder and Pres­i­dent of Mind­strong Health
Dr. Ainslie Hatch, Direc­tor of Dig­i­tal Ther­a­peu­tics at Otsu­ka Pharmaceutical
David Klein, CEO of Click Ther­a­peu­tics
Char­lie Hartwell, Oper­at­ing Part­ner at The Bridge Builders Collaborative
Louis Gagnon, CEO of Total Brain
Dr. Anna Wexler, sci­ence writer and PI of the Wexler Lab at UPenn
Dr. Eddie Mar­tuc­ci, Founder and CEO of Akili Inter­ac­tive Labs
Ana Maiques, CEO of Neu­ro­electrics
Jan Samzelius, Founder and CEO of Neu­raMetrix
Dr. Peter White­house, Pro­fes­sor of Neu­rol­o­gy at Case West­ern Reserve University
Kito Toset­ti, CEO of CTF MEG International
Ariel Garten, Founder and Chief Evan­ge­lism Offi­cer of Inter­aX­on
Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, CEO and Edi­tor-in-Chief of Sharp­Brains

We can’t wait to discuss and help shape the Future of Brain Health!

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Imag­ine your smart­phone can detect ear­ly signs of anx­i­ety, depres­sion or Parkinson’s Dis­ease — would you like to know? Who else should know … and not know?

Imag­ine a videogame cleared by the FDA to treat ADHD or sub­stance abuse — how will doc­tors pre­scribe it, patients access it, and insur­ers pay for it?

Imag­ine being respon­si­ble for the health & well­ness of your orga­ni­za­tion — how will you nav­i­gate the grow­ing toolk­it of evi­dence-based inter­ven­tions such as exercise/ meditation/ sleep apps/ cog­ni­tive therapies/ biofeedback/ tDCS?

Imag­ine invest­ing $100 mil­lion to help accel­er­ate brain research and appli­ca­tions — how would you ensure that respon­si­ble devel­op­ment meets wise adop­tion?

Imag­ine a free annu­al brain check-up — who should take it, and how could it help prevent/ delay/ treat cog­ni­tive decline and Alzheimer’s Disease?

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Akili Interactive Labs, Bridge Builders Collaborative, Case-Western-Reserve-University, Click Therapeutics, CTF MEG International, Interaxon, Mindstrong Health, NeuraMetrix, Neuroelectrics, Otsuka Pharmaceutical, sharpbrains, Total Brain, Wexler Lab

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