On 23 March 2017, we had a pleasant meal at the Queen’s Pizzeria & Café (皇后南義窯烤披薩) in Taipei,Taiwan. Watch the 360° video and enjoy. This 360° experience was created with a Nikon KeyMission 360° camera. If you are viewing via Youtube or another compatible application, you can use the Google Cardboard or other VR (Virtual…
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Failed Your New Year’s Resolutions? 6 Easy Tips to Get Back on Track Fast
With all of your good-intentioned resolutions in place, you might have already reneged. If so, don’t sweat it! Chances are if you follow the mind and body tips below, you will be able to think more clearly, be more focused, feel less stressed, more grateful, and energized too! These are tips that anyone anywhere can do, and the wonderful thing is that they take very little time to incorporate into your life. The payoff will be huge, as you will see positive changes happening in your life very quickly, making you feel better and healthier overall .
1. Gentle Stretching
Since it very easy to get overwhelmed by emotional and physical stress before you even get out of bed in the morning, there is no better time to engage in a little gentle stretching. Do a full body stretch for 5 minutes or less everyday before getting out of bed. Your muscles were stiff from sleeping, so doing these simple stretches provides more blood flow to your body. Think neck, torso, shoulders, and toes.
These stretches should never hurt, so do not push through a stretch if you feel pain. Stretches should sooth, and gently wake up the body.
2. Cultivate Compassion
Research shows its very hard to cultivate compassion when we are involved in the hustle and bustle of everyday life. Compassion can at times feel forced, like a chore. The good part is that we can actually work to strengthen our ability to show compassion through meditation. And, even better, research shows positive stress-reducing benefits from practicing compassion meditation. In fact, a Stanford study found that it not only lowers our stress response, it lowers our own pain response, helping people with chronic pain and inflammation find relief.
To practice a quick and easy compassion meditation, simply close your eyes and imagine someone you think could use some compassion. Focus on an image of them and slowly repeat these three phrases in your mind, directed toward them, three times: “I wish you peace, love, good health, happiness, and fulfillment.” If you prefer to be silent, you can continue closing your eyes, and just think good thoughts about the person, sending good energy their way.
3. Hydrate, Hydrate, Hydrate
Considering that our bodies are mostly water, most of us are intellectually aware of the vital importance of hydration. But not everyone realizes that the health benefits of hydration actually extend to stress relief. Being even just a little dehydrated can increase our body’s levels of cortisol, the stress hormone, leading to feelings of anxiety, cloudiness, exhaustion and overall irritability. As we run around from place to place feeling frazzled, we forget to drink as much water as we normally would. Forget about how much water to drink depending on your weight. Just drink enough water so your urine is a pale-yellow color.
4. Actively Practice Gratitude
Sometimes saying a mere thank you is the hardest, humbling thing to express. Research shows that expressing consistent gratitude has many health and wellness benefits, including boosting energy and our immune system, improving mood/feelings of positivity, fighting depression and strengthening relationships. For example, couples who express gratitude on a day-to-day basis have stronger relationships, and feel more satisfied with their lives and research backs this up. Gratitude also extends to all relationships out there including sibling/parental/friendship circles. Find the good in someone else and become a better person.
5. Learn How to Breathe Better
When we are anxious about something, or when we are ruminating about something in our minds our heart rate increases, our pupils dilate, and our breath becomes shallower. When we are stressed, it literally plucks us out of the present moment, and into concerns/thoughts about the future which hasn’t happened yet, or the past, which we cannot do anything about or change. That’s why deep breathing is one of the best, most simple stress busting techniques out there that doesn’t cost a dime.
Our breath is always happening in the present moment. By connecting with it, we can bring our minds back into the present, the here and now — what really counts. All it takes is 90 seconds of long, deep breaths to elicit a relaxation response from our parasympathetic nervous system, inhibiting stress hormone production, lowering our heart rate and decreasing our blood pressure.
6. Exercise for Stress Relief
Our self-care routine is usually the first thing we give up in order to accommodate others. By putting ourselves on the backburner, it is difficult for our bodies and minds to overcome any stressors that may come our way. The good news is that you can take a less-is-more approach and fit in just a few minutes of stress-relieving exercises at home that will make a big difference in helping you manage all sorts of pressures. If yoga is your thing, take just two minutes to practice a restorative yoga pose by lying on the floor with your legs up on a pillow, on a chair or straight up on the wall.
If you’d rather be more physically active in your stress relief strategies(s), try blowing off some steam with some high-intensity interval training sessions. You can do jumping jacks, jumping ropes, pushups, whatever feels best for you in under 10 minutes. Most have us can spare these 10 minutes a few days a week. Ultimately, it is a matter of personal preference which always falls in the subjective domain. Maybe you can’t stand the feeling of doing high intensity, but love the way you feel after a quick restorative yoga session. Perhaps meditation isn’t your thing, but you find that keeping a gratitude journal works best for you.
Determine the ways that help you relieve stress, and be consistent in your proactive use of them. Sometimes it just takes time and patience to see what works and doesn’t work for you. If you do that, you’ll have a happier, healthier, and more fulfilling life.
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Dr. Albert Kwon, CEO of Brainnovations Winner AUGMENTx, wants to harness Augmented Reality to significantly ease access to Neurological Rehabilitation Therapies
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Albert, what surprised you the most from the Judges’ questions and feedback during the Brainnovations Pitch Contest?
It was a pleasant surprise to receive so many votes and such great feedback, which solidified my conviction that there is a great need to create new therapy options for stroke patients and other neurological injuries, especially given our aging population. Medical systems worldwide will struggle to handle the growing burden of chronic illnesses unless we start acting soon.
In a nutshell, what is the core idea behind AUGMENTx?
The core idea is to leverage visual-cognitive and visual-motor/sensory connections of the brain to enhance performance in disease states. For example, mirror therapy takes advantage of the mirror neuron pathway to improve post-stroke motor recovery and to alleviate phantom limb pain in limb amputees. And we believe that these therapies can be delivered on digitized AR platforms, instead of being always confined to few specialized physical rehabilitation centers. Why not have them be accessible from the patient’s home, especially in rural areas where there is often no access to any kind of rehab?
When and how did the idea come to you?
I realized the potential of augmented reality at a hackathon event at MIT, after a grueling 28 hour hospital shift. My co-founders had created a proof-of-concept prototype and presented it to me when I visited the demo station. It was a revelation, since a week prior I had had difficulty finding mirror therapy for a patient suffering from phantom limb pain in my clinic — and the patient ultimately lost interest in going to the one hospital I somehow managed to find. That is when I knew I wanted to help them bring augmented reality into clinical practice.
What’s your vision for Brain Health in 2025 and how do you envision AUGMENTx as part of it?
As a physician, I am certain that Brain Health is and will continue to be the most important medical problem we must address collectively. In 2025, I imagine the pressure to improve brain health outcomes while containing healthcare cost will rise, so I see great opportunities for technologies such as augmented reality, IoT, wearables, and mobile digital therapeutics all contributing to optimizing the healthcare delivery process and benefiting many patients.
How are you funding the company so far, and are you planning to raise funds this year?
The co-founders of 
AUGMENTx have bootstrapped our company thus far and successfully built an MVP augmented reality therapy platform that is ready for pilot studies in stroke patients and chronic pain patients; we have even started to sell our therapy platform as a research tool to academic hospitals. However, the projected expense for running our three pilot clinical studies largely exceed our projected sales this year, so we are kicking off our equity seed fundraising as we speak.
How do you/ will you validate that your solutions do what they are supposed to?
We are planning three feasibility pilot studies and aim to start recruiting patients in the second half of the year. Our main interest is testing whether our therapy may have the same beneficial outcomes for stroke patients that traditional mirror therapy has, so we are in active discussions with premier academic institutions regarding running our pilot studies with domain experts on stroke motor recovery and post-stroke chronic pain.
Tell us a couple exciting things you’re planning for 2018
Besides the fundraising and clinical studies, we are looking forward to rigorously testing the limits of current smartphones on which we wish to deploy our augmented reality therapy. If we succeed, we expect to bring down the cost of our therapy system by an order of magnitude and allow many more patients to access our specialized neurological rehabilitation therapies at home.
What are some key roadblocks ahead, and how are you planning to address them?
The biggest challenge in medicine is building the appropriate clinical evidence to ensure our approach benefits patients. The co-founders at AUGMENTx knows that this will take significant effort, time, and capital … and we are ready to take on the quite daunting challenge.
If you could go back in time to, say, 5–10 years ago, what advice would you have liked to receive?
At that time, I was a medical student barely keeping up with the immense amount of new medical information I had to digest. I wish someone had told me to look beyond my medical textbooks and to understand the challenges of healthcare delivery systems. I think I would have had a better appreciation of the vast opportunities where technology can create value for healthcare.
Finally, if I may, what do you do to stay sharp 
I exercise regularly and spend two hours weekly doing internet research on topics that spontaneously interest me in the moment, including non-medical topics such as particle physics or ancient Egyptian history. You never run out of interesting things to explore!
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Dr. Albert Kwon, Co-Founder & CEO of AUGMENTx, is an MIT and Harvard trained biologist, pediatrician, and anesthesiologist. After completing his residencies at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital, he will further specialize in pain medicine at Stanford. He has extensive basic science and engineering research experience in drug delivery, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine with pioneering researchers at MIT and Harvard.
Thanks to his great pitch and answers during the 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (slidedeck available below), AUGMENTx was selected as the Top Brainnovation to Improve Brain Health.
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E-cigarettes may cause cancer and heart disease, says study
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E-cigarette use may lead to cancer and heart disease, say researchers, after finding that e-cigarette vapor can cause damage to DNA.
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