Stephen Jones

How AI, Digital Screening Tools Can Help Flag Early Cognitive Decline (Health IT Analytics): Early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s and other dementias remains at the forefront of efforts to minimize the impact of these neurodegenerative diseases. But challenges such as increased life expectancy and the risks of aging, along with complexities in diagnosis and treatment resulting…

Anxiety is the most common psychiatric disorder, with over 301 million ?people affected around the world. Whether extreme anxiety arises in social situations, is triggered by a particular phobia, or manifests as a general unease in the world, it can severely affect people’s everyday functioning and lead to high levels of distress. Luckily, there are…

Welcome to a new edition of SharpBrains e‑newsletter, this time covering the latest developments in stress research, meditation, virtual reality, anti-amyloid drugs, cognitive screenings, and more. #1. The 7 Habits of Highly Stress-Resilient Minds “Anything worth doing will have aspects of stress woven through: challenge, discomfort, risk. We can’t change that. But what we can change…

A fascinating study just published in Nature Mental Health aimed at helping predict the outcomes of psychotherapy for patients with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) using Machine Learning (ML) and electroencephalography (EEG) data. PTSD is a mental health condition triggered by experiencing or witnessing a traumatic event; two evidence-based treatments–Prolonged Exposure (PE) and Cognitive Processing Therapy…

Data from the CLARITY trial earlier this year was supposed to be the crowning glory of the amyloid hypothesis, vindication for proponents of this long-held but much-maligned theory of Alzheimer’s disease. Yet the results left many feeling underwhelmed, and even the study authors noncommittal. The CLARITY trial has many admirable features. It recruited close to…

Digital Therapy for Insomnia More Effective Than Sleep Education, Study Finds (American Journal of Managed Care): A smartphone-based, Chinese culture­–adapted digital cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (DCBT‑I) application improved insomnia severity compared with sleep education, according to findings of a study published in JAMA Network Open. Researchers wanted to study the efficacy of this DCBT‑I…

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