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The lowdown on Thymia, the innovative startup that's using video games based on Neuropsychology to help clinicians to make mental health assessments For many, the pandemic has been difficult on their mental health. Disconnected from others, isolated with perhaps only video calling to keep in touch with friends and family - with their support base.  For people with depression, the year or...
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The lowdown on the gaming app, eQuoo that helps users build their emotional fitness and thereby help fight their mental illness... With the tried and tested method of gamification, sub-clinical, award-winning emotional fitness game eQuoo is PsycApps’ way of finding a way to get people suffering from depression, anxiety and other mental illnesses intrinsically motivated to stick to ther...
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Neeta Patel, CEO of the New Entrepreneurs Foundation shares some top suggestions on how to take care of yourself - mentally and physically as an entrepreneur. "You’ve started a business, it’s going well - the orders are coming in, the business is growing and you’ve secured investment. You’re on cloud nine but this doesn’t last long. In the last year you’ve...
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A South Korean startup, Ybrain has created Mindd, a headband that performs a process called transcranial direct current stimulation - to combat depression. We have written previously about depression among entrepreneurs, and it is a serious and prevalent problem - and certainly not just in the world of entrepreneurship. In South Korea, the suicide rate in 2015 was 38 people every day. It&rsqu...
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We recently read a heartfelt article by the Manchester based Tech Entrepreneur Manoj Ranaweera about the suicide of his entreprenerial friend and business peer, and it motivated us to write about something both serious and widespread within the world of entrepreneurship: depression. Of course we are not trained health professionals but, while we don’t claim to have the solution, it is an imp...
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