Source: https://sharpbrains.com/blog/2020/04/30/trend-growing-interest-in-digital-mental-health-among-insurers-and-medical-care-providers/
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In Mental Health Play, UnitedHealth’s Optum May Buy Virtual Provider AbleTo (Forbes):
“UnitedHealth Group’s Optum medical provider unit may increase its investment in AbleTo, a provider of virtual behavioral healthcare services.
Such a deal, which some reports say could be an outright acquisition, would be significant because it’s further acknowledgement by health insurers that managing medical care isn’t enough to make sure patients are getting the right care, in the right place and at the right time.
Insurers and medical care providers increas…
Source: https://sharpbrains.com/blog/2020/04/30/trend-growing-interest-in-digital-mental-health-among-insurers-and-medical-care-providers/
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In Mental Health Play, UnitedHealth’s Optum May Buy Virtual Provider AbleTo (Forbes):
“UnitedHealth Group’s Optum medical provider unit may increase its investment in AbleTo, a provider of virtual behavioral healthcare services.
Such a deal, which some reports say could be an outright acquisition, would be significant because it’s further acknowledgement by health insurers that managing medical care isn’t enough to make sure patients are getting the right care, in the right place and at the right time.
Insurers and medical care providers increas…
Source: https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2020/cancer-and-coronavirus-complications.html
Those already battling a chronic health condition are at higher risk of infection and complications from COVID-19 … En español | The majority of people who become sick with COVID-19, the respirat……
Source: https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2020/cancer-and-coronavirus-complications.html
Those already battling a chronic health condition are at higher risk of infection and complications from COVID-19 … En español | The majority of people who become sick with COVID-19, the respirat……
Source: http://www.brainhealtheducation.org/purified-botanical-cbd-reduces-early-death-in-dravet-syndrome/
In a paper published in the British Journal of Pharmacology today, scientists from the University of Reading and GW Research Ltd found that treating mice which have Dravet syndrome with purified botanical CBD showed improved mortality rates and lower scores for anxiety, depressive, cognitive and autistic-like social behavioural symptoms. Those Dravet mice that received the CBD treatment
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Source: http://www.brainhealtheducation.org/purified-botanical-cbd-reduces-early-death-in-dravet-syndrome/
In a paper published in the British Journal of Pharmacology today, scientists from the University of Reading and GW Research Ltd found that treating mice which have Dravet syndrome with purified botanical CBD showed improved mortality rates and lower scores for anxiety, depressive, cognitive and autistic-like social behavioural symptoms. Those Dravet mice that received the CBD treatment
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Source: https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2020/covid-19-brain-symptoms.html
En español | Babak Navi, the division chief for stroke and hospital neurology at Weill Cornell Medicine and a neurologist at New York-Presbyterian, has been working on the front lines of the corona……
Source: https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2020/covid-19-brain-symptoms.html
En español | Babak Navi, the division chief for stroke and hospital neurology at Weill Cornell Medicine and a neurologist at New York-Presbyterian, has been working on the front lines of the corona……
Source: https://womensbrainhealth.org/helpful-thinking/covid-19-what-dementia-caregivers-need-to-know
by Alzheimer’s Association: Most likely, dementia does not increase risk for COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the new coronavirus, just like dementia does not increase risk for flu. However, dementia-related behaviors, increased age and common health conditions that often……
Source: https://womensbrainhealth.org/helpful-thinking/covid-19-what-dementia-caregivers-need-to-know
by Alzheimer’s Association: Most likely, dementia does not increase risk for COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the new coronavirus, just like dementia does not increase risk for flu. However, dementia-related behaviors, increased age and common health conditions that often……
Source: https://womensbrainhealth.org/think-about-it/isolation-and-monotony-stress-the-brain-heres-how-to-cope
by Wendy Bowman for How Stuff Works: If you’re anything at all like me these days, life in quarantine has started to resemble the movie “Groundhog Day.” A monotonous series of 24-hour increments where you wake, brush your teeth, put……
Source: https://womensbrainhealth.org/think-about-it/isolation-and-monotony-stress-the-brain-heres-how-to-cope
by Wendy Bowman for How Stuff Works: If you’re anything at all like me these days, life in quarantine has started to resemble the movie “Groundhog Day.” A monotonous series of 24-hour increments where you wake, brush your teeth, put……
Source: https://womensbrainhealth.org/better-thinking/the-mind-diet
by Women’s Brain Health Initiative: Recently, doctors have developed a “brain-healthy” diet that appears to reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease by as much as 53 per cent. There is even a bonus; you can follow the diet in……
Source: https://womensbrainhealth.org/better-thinking/the-mind-diet
by Women’s Brain Health Initiative: Recently, doctors have developed a “brain-healthy” diet that appears to reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease by as much as 53 per cent. There is even a bonus; you can follow the diet in……
Source: http://www.brainhealtheducation.org/alcohol-use-during-pregnancy-linked-to-offspring-depression/
Children of mothers who drink alcohol during pregnancy may be at an increased risk of developing depression in late adolescence, according to new University of Bristol research. The study, which used data from 14,541 pregnant mothers in the 1990s, is published in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. While previous research has suggested that babies exposed to
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Source: http://www.brainhealtheducation.org/alcohol-use-during-pregnancy-linked-to-offspring-depression/
Children of mothers who drink alcohol during pregnancy may be at an increased risk of developing depression in late adolescence, according to new University of Bristol research. The study, which used data from 14,541 pregnant mothers in the 1990s, is published in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. While previous research has suggested that babies exposed to
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Source: https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/healthy-moments/episodes/overcoming-barries-healthy-eating
You may hear a lot about the role of physical activity in weight control, but healthy eating habits are just as important.
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Source: https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/healthy-moments/episodes/overcoming-barries-healthy-eating
You may hear a lot about the role of physical activity in weight control, but healthy eating habits are just as important.
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Source: https://sharpbrains.com/blog/2020/04/24/update-moderate-lifetime-drinking-may-lead-to-lower-alzheimer-related-beta-amyloid-deposits-in-the-brain/
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Time for a new edition of SharpBrains’ e‑newsletter.
#1. First of all, it’s not all bad news this month. Study finds that moderate lifetime drinking may lead to lower Alzheimer-related beta amyloid deposits in the brain
#2. And, talk about personalized medicine! This fascinating study showing how brain imaging (fMRI) + machine learning + intensive, non-invasive neurostimulation = targeted treatments that can maximize efficacy and minimize side effects: <a href="https://sharpbrains.com/blog/2020/04/22/reinventing-depres…
Source: https://sharpbrains.com/blog/2020/04/24/update-moderate-lifetime-drinking-may-lead-to-lower-alzheimer-related-beta-amyloid-deposits-in-the-brain/
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Time for a new edition of SharpBrains’ e‑newsletter.
#1. First of all, it’s not all bad news this month. Study finds that moderate lifetime drinking may lead to lower Alzheimer-related beta amyloid deposits in the brain
#2. And, talk about personalized medicine! This fascinating study showing how brain imaging (fMRI) + machine learning + intensive, non-invasive neurostimulation = targeted treatments that can maximize efficacy and minimize side effects: <a href="https://sharpbrains.com/blog/2020/04/22/reinventing-depres…