Conquer Your Fears: One Treatment Could Cure Multiple Phobias (M)
Research reveals a surprising link between fear of spiders and fear of heights. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - February 15, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Anxiety subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
Career Guide In Digital Health And Healthcare AI
It seems like every other day, someone reaches out to us – aiming their questions at Dr. Meskó, our lead researcher – seeking career advice. Now, let’s set the record straight: doling out career guidance isn’t exactly what we do. Yet, here we are, writing this article. Why? Even though we’re not career advisors, we’re right in the thick of the digital health and healthcare AI world. From this spot, we have a good overview of what you need to get into these booming fields.
So, while we might not be career counselors, here are our two cents on which direction to take –...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 13, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Source Type: blogs
Virtual Reality Headset Takes EEG Measurements
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have developed an electroencephalogram (EEG) sensor that is incorporated into a virtual reality headset. The technology can measure brain activity while someone is undergoing an immersive virtual reality experience. The device may assist in enhancing medical virtual reality interventions, such as those used to treat post-traumatic stress disorder or phobias, by revealing brain activity during different tasks or experiences that help clinicians to tailor treatment plans to maximize efficacy. The electrodes are soft and spongy, which makes them comfortable against the head, an...
Source: Medgadget - September 26, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics Neurology Source Type: blogs
Mindfulness. Is there an app for that?
TL:DR – The idea of an app for mindfulness is inherently contradictory, but they may have some use if used mindfully…
The notion of mindfulness is often discussed in light of an apparently epidemic of mental health crises, anxiety, depression, phobias, addictions, and other problems. It is considered a state of being where one is fully present in the moment and aware of one’s thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations. The aim of mindfulness is not to exclude external stimuli nor to ignore one’s memories and preclude predictions of the future, but rather to live in the moment, to try to feel satisfi...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - March 15, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Health and Medicine Psychology Source Type: blogs
List Of Phobias: The Most Common To The Strangest
Phobias are irrational fears that induce an intense emotion when a certain situation or object is encountered. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - February 14, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Anxiety Source Type: blogs
Top 10 Research Topics To Pursue In Digital Health
The question we most frequently get at The Medical Futurist Institute is easily the one asking for guidance on potential research topics. In fact, we face it so often that we decided to write a summary of our thoughts to provide an overview and some insights to anyone who is willing to dive deep into digital health but is unsure about the best direction to take.
Whatever you choose, take a look at these four criteria first
Find a nicheAim for uncharted territoriesLook for ease of entrySeek answers to important questions
We compiled a list of ten research topics we believe are in line with the above principles and ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 1, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Forecast Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Portable Medical Diagnostics Telemedicine & Smartphones AI EMR v Source Type: blogs
The Next Evolution of Digital Health – Welcome to the ‘Med-averse’
The following is a guest article by Sheetal Chawla, VP and Head of Life Sciences at Capgemini Americas.
The promise of innovation and efficiency in the new era of medicine could change patient experiences forever
The metaverse is one of the biggest technological breakthroughs of the modern era – on par with the invention of the smartphone. One after another, industries have begun assessing how the promise of the metaverse can advance innovations and usher in progress within any given field.
One industry with massive potential is healthcare. The concept of the metaverse – or ‘med-averse’ as some have coined it –...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 3, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: C-Suite Leadership Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Capgemini Americas Digital Healthcare Healthcare Accessibility Med-averse Metaverse Patient Support Randomized Clinical Trials Sheetal Chawl Source Type: blogs
The Evidence Keeps Coming On The Value Of Some Tech In Helping Mental Illness!
This release appeared last week:MEDIA RELEASEWednesday 13th July , 2022Virtual Reality App shown to reduce common phobias through clinical trial in New Zealand.Results from a New Zealand University trial suggest fresh hope for the estimated one-in-twelve people worldwide suffering from a fear of flying, needles, heights, spiders and dogs.The trial, led by Associate Professor Cameron Lacey, from the Department of Psychological Medicine, at the University of Otago, studied phobia patients using a headset and a smartphone app treatment programme – a combination of Virtual Reality (VR) 360-degree video exposure therapy and c...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 27, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Weekly Australian Health IT Links – 25 July, 2022.
Here are a few I have come across the last week or so. Note: Each link is followed by a title and a few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment.General Comment-----Quite a lot going on this week and we have had a pretty busy comment flow on the blog. Interesting how comment streams evolve!The telehealth debate continues and the Government is yet to notice what a ‘steaming pile of poo’the #myHR is!-----https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/anz/australia-launches-digital-cancer-hub-childre...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 25, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
How The Metaverse Could (Or Could Not) Transform Healthcare
If you’ve browsed the internet in the last couple of months, the term ‘metaverse’ is likely to have been thrown at you at least once. Facebook rebranded itself after the concept and other companies are adopting the metaverse with their own spin; betting heavily that it will be the next iteration of the internet where we will work and play alike.
As healthcare increasingly incorporates an online segment in the digital health era, one cannot help but wonder how – or even if – this touted future of the internet will influence this sphere. As such, we decided to step into the metaverse and contemplat...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 3, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: TMF Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Augmented Reality Science Fiction Security & Privacy telehealth Metaverse online healthcare Source Type: blogs
Does VR give you motion sickness? Try chewing some gum
By Emma Young
VR headsets are becoming commonplace not only in entertainment and pilot training, but in clinical settings — in helping people to overcome phobias, for example, or to distract burns patients while their dressings are changed. Unfortunately, there’s a common side effect: visually induced motion sickness (VIMS), sometimes also known as “cybersickness”. This limits the use of VR, or means that people have to spend extended periods feeling nauseous while they adapt to it. But according to new research in Experimental Brain Research there’s a very simple way to tackle this problem: chewing f...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - February 8, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Brain Technology Source Type: blogs
We Seem To Treat Physical Warmth As A Sign Of Safety
By Emma Young
When we learn that something in our environment signals Threat!, we start to react to every encounter with the “fight or flight”, or “fear”, response. Recent work has shown, though, that the presence of someone we’re close to — a friend or partner, say, — can reduce or even eliminate this response. Our brains seem to treat such people as a powerful “safety” signal.
This was thought to be a unique effect. But now a team led by Erica Hornstein at UCLA has shown that physical warmth does the same thing. The work, published in Emotion, was prompted by research fin...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - December 6, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Emotion Perception Source Type: blogs
Scared Of Spiders? There ’s An App For That
In this study, published in the Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 33 participants (18 diagnosed with arachnophobia) used the Phobys app as recommended. Before and after using the app, they provided responses to several measures of fear: subjective fear ratings when approaching a real spider (a Behavioural Approach Test), the Fear of Spiders Questionnaire (FSQ), and the Spider Phobia Beliefs Questionnaire (SBQ), as well as a measure of disgust. They were also asked to rate how much they felt that their fears had reduced, post-intervention. A further 33 (17 diagnosed with arachnophobia) participants received no intervention, in ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - October 13, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Technology Source Type: blogs
Helping young brains fight off anxiety by training and raising cognitive control
This article was originally published by AIM Youth Mental Health, a non-profit dedicated to finding and funding promising youth mental health research that can identify solutions to make a difference in young people’s lives today, which contributed to funding Kate Fitzgerald’s research.
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Source: SharpBrains - July 23, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greater Good Science Center Tags: Education & Lifelong Learning anxiety brain markers brain training childhood cognitive-behavioral-therapy cognitive-capacities cognitive-control cognitive-skills Cognitive-Training frontal-lobes Kate Fitzgerald Kid Power program Source Type: blogs
7 Futuristic Professions In Healthcare You Can Still Prepare For
If you’re among the thousands of medical students worldwide or are about to pursue a degree in healthcare, it might have dawned on you that the field wouldn’t look the same by the time you get into clinical practice. With drones delivering medical supplies; an ever-increasing wealth of data from personal health sensors; and patients turning to telemedicine, the medical workplace will decidedly look different by then.
But you also regularly hear news like how algorithms are able to beat radiologists to the punch when identifying cancerous lesions in medical images. These can fuel fear that such advanced tec...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 11, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Lifestyle medicine 3D Printing Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Healthcare Design Medical Education Portable Medical Diagnostics Robotics Science Fiction Security & Privacy T Source Type: blogs
