Personalized Health Systems Today
By Mark D. Wiederhold & Brenda K. Wiederhold Innovations in technology have aided healthcare throughout the world in diverse ways such as developing new methods for prevention, rehabilitation or surgery,…read more →
Archive For June, 2014
Deep Brain Stimulation: From Parkinson treatment to personality enhancement?
➣ By Frederic Gilbert In recent years, Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) treatments have attracted great interest in the medical community, not only for their effectiveness, but also for their expanded,…read more →
The Use of Doppelgängers to Promote Health and Behavior Change
➣ By Jesse Fox & Jeremy N. Bailenson You don’t like parties: there are too many people and it makes you anxious. Who do you talk to? What do you…read more →
Letter from the Secretary General and Editor-in-Chief
Dear Reader, In just two more years, people will access the Internet from their cell phones more often than from their PCs. Now that some of the early challenges such…read more →
C&R in the UAE
By Emily Butcher As recently as 2007 local mental experts spoke to the lack of provisions in mental healthcare services in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), quoted in an Arabian…read more →
Brain-computer Interface for Spelling and Environmental Control
➣ By Christoph Guger A brain-computer interface (BCI) is a communication channel between the human brain and external devices based on the Electroencephalogram (EEG). Such a system allows a person…read more →
One pill makes you larger
➣ ➣ ➣ ➣ ➣ By Mark D. Wiederhold & Brenda K. Wiederhold As cognitive neuroscience has advanced, so, too, has the list of possible internal, biological enhancements. Stimulants such…read more →
15th Annual CyberPsychology & CyberTherapy Conference
Seoul, Korea June 13 – 15, 2010 The 15th Annual CyberPsychology and CyberTherapy Conference (CT15), the official conference of the International Association of CyberPsychology, Training & Rehabilitation (iACToR) was co-organized…read more →
Further Alfield: The Changing Landscape of Metabolic Syndrome and Diabetes in Asia
By Lingjun Kong Metabolic syndrome exhibits a complex, multifactorial etiology. Research comparing genetically different populations indicates that both genetics and lifestyle issues are major factors in its development. Approximately 20-30%…read more →
From Where We Sit: Europe’s Initiative in Using Interreality to Treat and Prevent Metabolic Diseases
By Giuseppe Riva For many of us, metabolic diseases are the outcome of an energy imbalance: more/less energy input than expenditure. However, our waistlines are growing in spite of the…read more →