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Online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1089/big.2012.0002. 3 Ways To Make Wearable Tech Actually Wearable. Wearable technology is the next new wave of technology, and it’s bound to drive a lot of the innovation in the consumer electronics industry.

3 Ways To Make Wearable Tech Actually Wearable

We can expect to see a lot more watches, glasses, fitness gadgets, and wristbands in the years to come. But bear in mind that we’re in the “brick phone” phase, or version 1.0, of wearable tech. An App That Uses Dataviz To Digitally Track Your Moods. The "quantified self" movement offers many doodads for tracking, analyzing, and visualizing your physical activity.

An App That Uses Dataviz To Digitally Track Your Moods

But what about your mental activity, your inner life, your ups and downs and joys and blues and everything in between? Until now, the only way to log that kind of stuff was in a journal. But if you have an iPhone, you can install an app called Expereal and start digitally moodtracking right now. The comparison to health gadgets isn’t accidental: Expereal’s creator, Jonathan Cohen, tells Co.Design that he explicitly built the app "to serve as an emotional-mental complement to the 'quantified self’ tools like Fitbit and Nike Fuelband and Jawbone UP. " His main inspiration was Daniel Kahneman’s book Thinking, Fast and Slow, which identified a curious cognitive bias we all share: We tend to remember only the emotional content of how something ended, rather than what we were feeling as we were actually experiencing it.

Fitbit, why can’t I have my data? I have a Fitbit.

Fitbit, why can’t I have my data?

I got it because I wanted to collect some data about myself and I liked the simplicity of the set-up. Smartphone iPhone Weight Scale Balance by Wahoo Fitness. The Wahoo Balance Smartphone Scale tracks your weight over time to help you achieve your weight goals.

Smartphone iPhone Weight Scale Balance by Wahoo Fitness

Use the Wahoo Balance as your everyday scale and sync to your favorite app to set users, set goals and track your weight change over time. • Easy to use- just step on and weigh yourself • Tracks weight and BMI. Quantified Self. QS: Incentivise QS data capture? Today, Kent Bottles wrote a very information-rich article about quantified self (QS) on the Health Care Blog.

QS: Incentivise QS data capture?

Titled, "Will the Quantified Self Movement Take Off in health Care? ", Bottles provides a whirlwind tour of QS with lots of examples and links. Two key pieces are worth pointing out: He quotes a New York Times article on "The Data-Driven Life", which mentions the four key enablers of QS. London QS Meetup Group. The London Quantified Self meetup (#QSelfUK) is modeled on the Bay Area Quantified Self Show & Tell meetings started in 2008 by Gary Wolf and Kevin Kelly in the Bay Area.

London QS Meetup Group

Your host for the London meetup are a team composed of Adriana Lukas (@adriana872), David Bradshaw and Denis Harscoat (@harscoat). Write us with your recommendations, tips, and observations. This is a regular show and tell for people who take advantage of various personal self-tracking tools and methods to gain more knowledge about themselves, others and the world around them. Come share what you are doing and learn from others. Personal Informatics. Calorie calculator. Silent Alarm Clock. Transcranial direct-current stimulation. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a form of neuromodulation that uses constant, low direct current delivered via electrodes on the head.

Transcranial direct-current stimulation

It can be contrasted with cranial electrotherapy stimulation, which generally uses alternating current the same way.[1] It was originally developed to help patients with brain injuries or psychiatric conditions like major depressive disorder. There is increasing evidence for tDCS as a treatment for depression.[2][3][4] However, there is mixed evidence about whether tDCS is useful for cognitive enhancement in healthy people. Several reviews have found evidence of small yet significant cognitive improvements.[5][6][7][8] Other reviews found no evidence at all,[9][10] although one of them[10] has been criticized for overlooking within-subject effects[11] and evidence from multiple-session tDCS trials.

Medical use[edit] Adverse effects and contraindications[edit] Mechanism of action[edit] GoFlow - World's First tDCS Kit. DIY Kit Overclocks Your Brain With Direct Current. Brain Stimulation Unit, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Now, the first thing I have to say in this post about how to overclock your brain with a straightforward 20-minute application of electrical current is DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME.

DIY Kit Overclocks Your Brain With Direct Current

The long-term effects of TDCS are unknown, and if you mess up and put orders of magnitude more current through your brain than is typically used in TDCS, obviously, you could kill yourself. Now that we have that out of the way, here’s how to try it at home. GoFlow is a startup planning to offer TDCS kits for as little as $99. GoFlow - World's First tDCS Kit. Electrode Positioning and Montage in Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation.

Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is an established technique to modulate cortical excitability1,2.

Electrode Positioning and Montage in Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation

It has been used as an investigative tool in neuroscience due to its effects on cortical plasticity, easy operation, and safe profile. One area that tDCS has been showing encouraging results is pain alleviation 3-5. Date Published: 5/23/2011, Issue 51; doi: 10.3791/2744 Keywords: Neuroscience, Issue 51, Transcranial direct current stimulation, pain, chronic pain, noninvasive brain stimulation, neuromodulation. New research confirms efficacy of transcranial magnetic stimulation for depression. Public release date: 26-Jul-2012 [ Print | E-mail Share ] [ Close Window ] Contact: Holly Brown-Ayershbrownayers@butler.org 401-455-6501Women & Infants Hospital PROVIDENCE, R.I. – In one of the first studies to look at transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in real-world clinical practice settings, researchers at Butler Hospital, along with colleagues across the U.S., confirmed that TMS is an effective treatment for patients with depression who are unable to find symptom relief through antidepressant medications.

New research confirms efficacy of transcranial magnetic stimulation for depression

The study findings are published online in the June 11, 2012 edition of Depression and Anxiety in the Wiley Online Library. Previous analysis of the efficacy of TMS has been provided through more than 30 published trials, yielding generally consistent results supporting the use of TMS to treat depression when medications aren't sufficient. "The patient outcomes we found in this study demonstrated a response rate similar to controlled clinical trial populations," said Dr. Moodscope. uMotif - Home. E-Patients. Visualize This: An e-Patient’s Medical Life History. Pew: Most US adults track health data but few use digital tools. Early screenshot of Basis Band's dashboard Perhaps surprisingly, a majority of American adults track their own health data, however, most aren’t using digital technologies to do so.

About 69 percent of US adults track at least one health indicator, according to a national survey called Tracking for Health, conducted by Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. About 60 percent of US adults track weight, diet, or an exercise routine, while 33 percent track another health indicator like blood pressure, sleep patterns or headaches. Some 12 percent of adults track health indicators for a loved one. Susannah Fox, an associate director of the Pew Internet Project, told MobiHealthNews that this survey was the first broad national survey to look at health data tracking and as such her team didn’t know what to expect. Technology Not Widely Used in Health Tracking - Healthcare - Mobile &