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The future of precision medicine, technology in healthcare

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Achieving heavy strides in healthcare, precision medicine is integrating with advanced technologies to pin-point diseases in advance. What will the...

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How growing mini human hearts is advancing precision medicine, drug discovery

Navanwita Sachdev12 months ago

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Instead of testing drugs on patients directly, a cutting-edge precision medicine process is creating miniature beating hearts as primary test subjects....

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What the ‘biomarker revolution’ means for personalized, precision medicine

Navanwita Sachdev1 year ago

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The healthcare industry is "in the midst of a biomarker revolution," which is paving the way for more personalized, precision...

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Pharma needs to embrace new strategies for personalized, precision medicine

Navanwita Sachdev1 year ago

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As precision medicine hones its skills and attempts to become even more personalized, pharma companies and clinical trial designs must...

Pills and tablets macro still life on violet, medical therapeutic concept

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Challenges in achieving precision medicine, personalized healthcare

Navanwita Sachdev1 year ago

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Personalized healthcare and precision medicine are roping in cutting-edge technologies, but their path is strewn with technical, political, and regulatory...

Brains Byte Back

The weekly podcast looking at how our brains, psychology, and society are impacted by the ever-evolving technology that surrounds us. Every Monday we bring you the best stories and guests from around the world relating to technology, psychology, and society.

It has been a stressful year and we are living in stressful times. In these moments, it is vital for us to exhibit strong emotional regulation to deal with the challenges of daily life. But what if this wasn’t a skill we developed as adults but instead as children through the use of video games. That is the mission of Mightier, a biofeedback video game platform designed to help children regulate their emotions.

Joining me to discuss how this technology works and how it was developed, we speak with developmental psychologist Jason Kahn, who is the founder and chief scientist at Mightier.

In this episode, we discuss how the company handles data and what it is showing us, how the technology was tested at Havard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital, and how data and video games can help us develop better habits in other areas of our lives.

We also discuss what games are available on the app, what is on the horizon for Mightier, and why Kahn believes a family first approach is key to successfully utilize this technology, before rolling it out in schools,