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Calm raises $75 million, expands into corporate mental health and wellness

December 15, 2020 by SharpBrains

Calm Med­i­ta­tion App Hits $2 Bil­lion Val­ue With Light­speed, Gold­man Back­ing (Bloomberg News):

Calm, mak­er of a med­i­ta­tion, sleep and relax­ation app, dou­bled its val­u­a­tion to $2 bil­lion after rais­ing cap­i­tal from exist­ing back­ers includ­ing Light­speed Ven­ture Part­ners, TPG and Insight Part­ners. [Read more…] about Calm rais­es $75 mil­lion, expands into cor­po­rate men­tal health and wellness

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Calm, Insight Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, mckinsey, meditation app, mental health, mental well being, mental-wellness, relaxation app, TPG, valuation, work, workforce

Fast Forward to 2040: How to prepare for the new era in brain enhancement that will change the way we think, work, and heal

March 19, 2020 by Tan Le

Decades from now when our aug­ment­ed brains have enhanced our cog­ni­tive func­tion and trans­formed near­ly every aspect of our lives, many of us will look back and won­der why we didn’t do more to pre­pare for these inevitable changes. Gov­ern­ment lead­ers may grap­ple with the run­away effects of AI and brain enhance­ment on geopol­i­tics. Com­pa­nies that fail to incor­po­rate neu­rotech­nolo­gies and BCI into their oper­a­tional flow could lose sig­nif­i­cant mar­ket share and be forced to scram­ble in an attempt to regain a foothold in an indus­try they once dominated.

Work­ers who don’t heed the warn­ings to re-skill or upskill may find them­selves out of a job as entire indus­tries dis­ap­pear. Grad­u­at­ing col­lege stu­dents may dis­cov­er their field of study is no longer rel­e­vant in the busi­ness world, leav­ing them unpre­pared for the chang­ing job mar­ket. Tech inno­va­tors could be caught up in fierce com­pe­ti­tion to snap up employ­ees from a very lim­it­ed tal­ent pool, dri­ving up the cost of inno­va­tion and ham­per­ing its devel­op­ment. And every­day cit­i­zens may be wrestling with the unex­pect­ed con­se­quences of unin­ten­tion­al­ly giv­ing away the rights to their neur­al data.

Rest assured, it doesn’t have to be this way. [Read more…] about Fast For­ward to 2040: How to pre­pare for the new era in brain enhance­ment that will change the way we think, work, and heal

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Peak Performance, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Adam Gazzaley, AI, book, brain, brain-enhancement, brainpower, cognitive, cognitive-function, Ed Boyden, Education & Lifelong Learning, enhance the brain, Fourth Industrial Revolution, heal, healthcare, human-brain, insurance, memory-boosting, Mindstrong, neuro-data, NeuroGeneration, neurotechnologies, Neurotechnology, non-invasive neurotechnologies, non-invasive neurotechnology, policymakers, retraining, STEAM, think, Tom Insel, WEF Future of Jobs, work

Study shows how online mindfulness interventions can reduce work-related rumination and fatigue, and improve sleep quality

September 14, 2017 by Greater Good Science Center

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Work these days often comes with long hours, emo­tion­al­ly drain­ing col­leagues, and com­plex prob­lems that require an enor­mous amount of men­tal ener­gy. So it’s no sur­prise that many of us have a hard time leav­ing work-relat­ed thoughts at the office.

“Sur­veys have shown that between 16 and 25 per­cent of the work­force have reg­u­lar issues of not being able to switch off and are upset or dis­tressed by work-relat­ed thoughts,” says Mark Crop­ley, a pro­fes­sor of health psy­chol­o­gy at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Sur­rey. That can lead to a host of men­tal and phys­i­cal health issues, includ­ing dif­fi­cul­ty focus­ing and depres­sion. [Read more…] about Study shows how online mind­ful­ness inter­ven­tions can reduce work-relat­ed rumi­na­tion and fatigue, and improve sleep quality

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Peak Performance, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: cognitive-functioning, depression, fatigue, Internet-based, mental energy, Mental Health Foundation, Mental-Health, mindfulness, occupational health, psychological well-being, rumination, sleep, work, workforce

“I am excited”: Making Stress Work for You, Instead of Against You

April 17, 2017 by Dan Lerner & Dr. Alan Schlechter

Image: The Yerkes-Dod­son Law (YDL)

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How much stress is good for you?

In 1908, Robert Mearns Yerkes and John Dilling­ham Dod­son designed an exper­i­ment that would begin to tack­le the ques­tion, “How much stress is good for you?” 

The researchers tracked mice to see how stress would affect their abil­i­ty to learn. Simple—yet painful, because how do you stress out mice? [Read more…] about “I am excit­ed”: Mak­ing Stress Work for You, Instead of Against You

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Peak Performance Tagged With: ability, ability to learn, alertness, anxiety, learn, mind, performance, physiology, Stress, work, Yerkes-Dodson Law

Managing brains, not bodies, in the knowledge economy

June 21, 2016 by SharpBrains

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[Pho­to: Flickr user_DJ_, Bri­an Snel­son via Wiki­me­dia Commons]

This Out­dat­ed Approach To Pro­duc­tiv­i­ty Is Bad For Your Brain (Fast Company):

“Your car has parts that per­form spe­cif­ic tasks. The radi­a­tor cools the engine. The spark plugs ignite the gas. The intake man­i­fold dis­trib­utes air and gas even­ly to the cylin­ders. We think of a car this way because a car is a machine.

For most of the 20th cen­tu­ry, sci­en­tists mapped the brain in the same way [Read more…] about Man­ag­ing brains, not bod­ies, in the knowl­edge economy

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning, Peak Performance Tagged With: brain, car, creativity, knowledge, knowledge-economy, Learning, productivity, work

New Report: Human Enhancement and the Future of Work

November 7, 2012 by SharpBrains

Sum­ma­ry of the report just issued by The Roy­al Soci­ety in the UK: “Although the impact of human enhance­ment tech­nolo­gies has been wide­ly debat­ed, until now they have not been con­sid­ered in terms of their impact upon the nature of work…the Acad­e­my of Med­ical Sci­ences, British Acad­e­my, Roy­al Acad­e­my of Engi­neer­ing and Roy­al Soci­ety came togeth­er to [Read more…] about New Report: Human Enhance­ment and the Future of Work

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: cognition, digital devices, drugs, enhancement, Human Enhancement, technologies, work

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