Reminder: UT-Dallas BrainHealth presents virtual talks with Alvaro Fernandez (this Thursday, April 21st) and Sanjay Gupta (next Tuesday, April 26th)
Each month, some of the most fascinating speakers participate in interactive conversations about the latest advances in brain health science, technology and real-world application.
All talks are virtual and free of charge. Register for the season and attend as many talks as you like.
» Learn More & Register HERE
NAVIGATING THE DIGITAL BRAIN HEALTH MARKET
with Alvaro Fernandez
April 21, 2022 | 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Mr. Fernandez, named a Young Global Leader, runs SharpBrains, an independent market research firm tracking applied neuroscience will present the latest trends in digital brain health and society’s m...
Source: SharpBrains - April 19, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: UT Dallas Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation alvaro-fernandez Applied Neuroscience brain health Brain-Fitness digital brain health Pervasive Neurotechnology real-world application Sanjay Gupta Source Type: blogs
Five ways to clear foggy brains and improve cognitive well-being
The other day, my friend Kristina told me that one evening she unintentionally locked her husband in a downstairs part of their house. She had known he was down there, but while distractedly locking the door for the night, forgot completely. She didn’t realize what she’d done until she saw a text from her husband the next morning asking her to please let him out.
“I couldn’t believe I did that to him,” she says. “I was stunned and alarmed that I had no awareness, in the moment or afterward, of what I had done.”
Kristina’s is one of many stories I’ve recently heard from people suggesting they’re having m...
Source: SharpBrains - April 14, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greater Good Science Center Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Education & Lifelong Learning cognition cognitive challenge cognitive well being cognitive-functioning exercise foggy brains Source Type: blogs
Geisinger and Eisai to test real-world validity of AI-powered Passive Digital Marker (PDM) in detecting early cognitive impairment and dementia
Research collaboration will test novel algorithm’s effectiveness on Geisinger data (press release):
Geisinger and Eisai Inc. today announced a collaborative effort to study the potential effectiveness of an artificial intelligence (AI) tool in the detection of cognitive impairment that could identify dementias, including Alzheimer’s disease (AD). If effective, the AI tool could potentially be developed to support the early detection and staging of cognitive impairment and dementia, leading to appropriate additional testing for the clinical, biological diagnosis and treatment of dementias such as AD.
The research collab...
Source: SharpBrains - April 12, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation algorithm Alzheimer’s Disease artificial intelligence Cognitive-impairment dementia Eisai electronic medical records Geisinger machine-learning Passive Digital Marker Source Type: blogs
Altoida raises further $14 million to “democratize digital cognitive assessment at scale” via augmented reality (AR) and AI
Altoida snags Merck KGaA-led $14M funding round for Alzheimer’s diagnostic app (Fierce Biotech):
The $14 million top-up came from a mix of old and new investors, co-led by Whitecap Venture Partners and Merck KGaA’s corporate VC arm, M Ventures, which also led the initial tranche of series A financing … The newly upsized funding will help Altoida add to its workforce, pay for intellectual property and regulatory filings and continue developing its tech platform to assess neurological function.
Through an app downloaded to a patient’s own smartphone or tablet, Altoida’s tech first offers up a 10-minute test. A...
Source: SharpBrains - April 6, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation Altoida assessment brain health cognitive decline digital cognitive assessment eye-tracking hand and gait errors M Ventures Merck neurocognitive neurocognitive assessment neurological Source Type: blogs
Mapping ‘psychedelic trips’ in the brain to better direct their therapeutic effects
This article was originally published on The Conversation.
To learn more:
Why MDMA-assisted psychotherapy may become an FDA-approved treatment for PTSD within 2 years
Next: Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy?
The post Mapping ‘psychedelic trips’ in the brain to better direct their therapeutic effects appeared first on SharpBrains. (Source: SharpBrains)
Source: SharpBrains - April 4, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Conversation Tags: Brain/ Mental Health academic research anxiety artificial intelligence brain regions cognitive-flexibility depression psychedelics psychiatric conditions psychotropic drugs therapeutic treat psychiatric conditions Source Type: blogs
From “Eminence-based” to Evidence-based cognitive & mental healthcare: Time for quality and accountability
Welcome to a new edition of SharpBrains’ e‑newsletter, featuring timely brain & mental health news, two excellent new books and a few fun brain teasers.
#1. From “Eminence-based” to Evidence-based mental healthcare: Time to focus on quality and accountability
“The real challenge is not finding a therapist, it’s finding a therapist who knows how to provide the treatments that work. In the early 2000s, Myrna Weissman was trying to understand why so few therapists use scientifically based treatments. She found that over 60 percent of professional schools of psychology and master’s level social work prog...
Source: SharpBrains - March 31, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Education & Lifelong Learning SharpBrains Monthly eNewsletter Technology & Innovation adhd ADHD-symptoms alvaro-fernandez behavioral health screening Brain Teasers BrainHealth Cajal cognitive-abilities DARPA Source Type: blogs
UT-Dallas BrainHealth presents virtual talks with Alvaro Fernandez and Sanjay Gupta next month
Each month, the most fascinating speakers participate in interactive conversations about the latest advances in brain health science, technology and real-world application.
All talks are virtual and free of charge. Register for the season and attend as many talks as you like.
» Learn More & Register HERE
NAVIGATING THE DIGITAL BRAIN HEALTH MARKET
with Alvaro Fernandez
April 21, 2022 | 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Mr. Fernandez, named a Young Global Leader, runs SharpBrains, an independent market research firm tracking applied neuroscience will present the latest trends in digital brain health and society’s march tow...
Source: SharpBrains - March 28, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: UT Dallas Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Education & Lifelong Learning alvaro-fernandez Applied Neuroscience brain health Brain-Fitness digital brain health Pervasive Neurotechnology real-world application Sanjay Gupta Source Type: blogs
A conversation at the frontier of digital health innovation, FDA regulations, and cognitive health
This article is adapted from a comprehensive conversation between Dr. Murali Doraiswamy and Dr. Jeffrey Shuren at the 2021 Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease (CTAD) conference in Boston. Dr. Shuren is a behavioral neurologist who has held a variety of leadership roles at the FDA and CMS, including as Director of the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH).
MD: The CDRH has a flagship Digital Health Center of Excellence. Can you tell us about it? And can you share your advice for how the Alzheimer’s field can help spur digital innovation?
JS: I’m very excited about the Center of Excellence, which we laun...
Source: SharpBrains - March 23, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation Alzheimer’s Disease CDRH cognitive-health CTAD digital health Digital Health Center of Excellence digital health innovation Dr. Jeffrey Shuren Dr. Murali Doraiswamy FDA MCI precertif Source Type: blogs
Separating brain-healthy wheat from chaff is becoming more urgent by the day
A) New video game company aims to develop therapeutic games (The Verge):
Video game-based tools can help with conditions like depression and ADHD, research shows. DeepWell Digital Therapeutics plans to build on those studies. “There was an amazing amount of science that had already been done,” Douglas says. “We started to recognize exactly how therapeutic these games already were.”
Often, a game used as a therapy would be designed as a therapy first, with fun or engaging gameplay elements layered on top, he says. But DeepWell wants developers to build games in the most engaging way possible — and ...
Source: SharpBrains - March 21, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Technology & Innovation adhd Bayer DeepWell depression digital therapeutics Woebot Health Source Type: blogs
From “Eminence-based” to Evidence-based mental healthcare: Time to focus on quality and accountability
For the mental health crisis of care, quality is as much of a problem as quantity.
Most people who seek mental health care for the first time are baffled by how to find a clinician. I know what many parents felt. When my daughter, Lara, finished her first semester at Oberlin, she returned home to Atlanta thin and exhausted. I was excited to have her back home and entirely clueless about her desperate struggle with anorexia. In fact, as I learned later, she had been driven by obsessions about her weight and her appearance for over a year by that point. As was true of Amy, her perfectionism and her shame at not being perfect...
Source: SharpBrains - March 16, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dr. Thomas Insel Tags: Brain/ Mental Health eating disorders eminence-based care evidence-based care mental health crisis mental health providers psychiatry psychologists serious mental illness therapists therapy Source Type: blogs
A great new book and five fun brain teasers to celebrate Brain Awareness Week 2022
Neurons of the spinal cord and connections as seen in a photomicrograph using a staining method pioneered by Santiago Ramón y Cajal. PHOTO: ALAMY
Brain Awareness Week 2022 just started!
Let’s celebrate our human brains by learning more about neuroscience pioneer Santiago Ramón y Cajal via a great new book about his life and by challenging our minds with a few fun brain teasers and illusions below ?
First, some fascinating insights into the “father of modern neuroscience” from a superb book review:
It was during a trip to Madrid for his exams that Cajal visited a lab where he learned how to look at cells under ...
Source: SharpBrains - March 14, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Education & Lifelong Learning Brain Teasers brain-awareness-week brain-book neuroscience Santiago-Ramon-y-Cajal Source Type: blogs
New DARPA initiative aims to harness cognitive science, sensors and machine learning to detect early brain signs of depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation
New Cognitive Science Tool to Shed Light on Mental Health (DARPA press release):
Since Sept. 11, 2001, more than 30,000 active duty members and veterans have taken their own lives – four times as many as those killed in post-911 military operations. Current methods to detect early signs of behavioral and mental health risk factors rely on self-reporting and screening questionnaires, which can’t reliably predict suicidality. Effective behavioral health assessment is a mission-critical capability requiring novel tools to identify and help those at risk.
Today, DARPA announced the Neural Evidence Aggregation Tool (NEAT) p...
Source: SharpBrains - March 10, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation anxiety brain signals cognitive-science DARPA depression health-screening NEAT neural evidence preconscious risk of suicide suicidal ideation Source Type: blogs
Canadian study finds causal link between time playing videogames at age 12 and ADHD symptoms at age 13
Recent studies have linked screen time — including video game play — to concerning outcomes in children, including low self-esteem, low life satisfaction, and depressive symptoms. Screen time has also been found to be correlated with symptoms of ADHD in children and adolescents, even when earlier attention difficulties are taken into account.
These findings suggest that excessive video game play may be a risk factor for the development of ADHD symptoms. Other research suggests the possibility of reverse causation, i.e., that ADHD symptoms predicts the development of excessive video game play.
Determining whether causal...
Source: SharpBrains - March 7, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dr. David Rabiner Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Education & Lifelong Learning Technology & Innovation adhd ADHD-symptoms adolescence screen time screens video-games videogames Source Type: blogs
From forest bathing to urban parks: How nature helps protect our well-being during a pandemic
St. Stephen’s Green in Dublin, courtesy of Aerial.ie
Living through the COVID-19 pandemic has had a severe impact on people’s mental health and well-being. Restricted movement, loss, and isolation have led to increases in depression, anxiety disorders, stress, sleep disorders, and more. The effects have been even harsher for teens.
How can we help protect our well-being during this particularly difficult time? Though a public health response is definitely called for, one way we might try to help ourselves this year is spending more time immersed in nature. In the last decade or so, research on the health benefits of na...
Source: SharpBrains - March 3, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Education & Lifelong Learning Peak Performance Covid-19 pandemic forest bathing mental health nature outdoors psychological health well-being Source Type: blogs
The Do ’s and Don’ts of Harnessing Technology (and Anxiety) for Good
Welcome to a new edition of SharpBrains’ e‑newsletter, featuring important brain & mental health news plus a few fun brain teasers to test your reasoning skills and more…
#1. Challenge ahead: Harnessing technology for good mental health
“Technology can not only help us grow out of unhealthy habits, it is also possible to expand human mental capacities … although it will be necessary to analyze “the how and when” of these uses: they must be ethically sound and ensure that results are beneficial to society.” — our very own Álvaro Fernández, hoping you all agree 🙂
If you prefer to read the article i...
Source: SharpBrains - February 28, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain Teasers Brain/ Mental Health Education & Lifelong Learning En Español Technology & Innovation anxiety brain-development cCBT cognitive computer-assisted cognitive behavior therapy dementia emotional Epitel hearing aids J Source Type: blogs
