Tag: Mental Health Innovation
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Listening to Ink: Neuroscience, Everyday Wellbeing and Sharing LYEONS Heart
During our conversation with Ink, we expected to spend most of our time talking about LYEONS Heart. Instead, we found ourselves discussing philosophy, neuroscience, mental wellbeing, human behaviour, and what it means to stay grounded in a world that rarely slows down. Ink currently works as an Investment Manager at a health technology venture capital…
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Building Together: Research, Community, and the Next Chapter
We realised that it has been a while since we shared an update on our journey of building LYEONS. Over the past few months, we have been busy writing articles, learning from experts, carrying out further studies, and working on our Listening to Users series. Before we knew it, we had spent far less time…
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Listening to Ada: Job Hunting, Anxiety and Everyday Life
Every experience with LYEONS Heart is different, and one of the most valuable parts of working with our early users is hearing those experiences in their own words. About LYEONS Heart user Ada Ada is a recent MRes graduate in Neuroscience and now works as a research intern at LYEONS while balancing part time work…
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Dementia Care Beyond Memory: Connection, Regulation, and Sensory Experience
If you have ever watched the film Coco (2017, Disney•Pixar), you may remember the moment when music brings a grandmother back into connection, as she begins to sing along to “Remember Me”. In the summer of 2025, grandmother, who had been mostly non-verbal while living with Alzheimer’s disease for over a decade, had a visit…
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Journaling, Reflection and the Inner Space
One of the things I appreciated most growing up was a simple reassurance from parents: they would never read my diary. That promise created something important as a little child and growing up. It made journaling a safe zone. A space that existed only between me and myself. A place to reflect.To observe.To think without…
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Co-regulation: how calm is shared, and why it matters more than we think
Most of us have been taught to treat stress as a thinking problem. Change the thought, change the feeling. Sometimes that works. Often it doesn’t, especially when your body is already in threat mode. There is another route in, and it is older than language: the nervous system. In a recent conversation with Ayala Homoossany,…
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How We Prepared for Our Kickstarter MVP Beta Launch and What We Learned
As we move on with MVP LYEONS Heart, we wanted an early small cohort who would be our MVP beta testers. The learnings we wanted to get were: is there potential for LYEONS Heart to support people, and who is it most helpful for? What kind of improvements can we make – product, application, support,…
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A Conversation with Hannah Claridge: From Brain Scans to Breakthroughs in Neurotechnology
Recently, the LYEONS team had the pleasure of sitting down with Hannah Claridge, a remarkable expert whose journey through medical physics and neurotechnology is as inspiring as it is insightful. We’re excited to share her story, a perfect example of how scientific curiosity, combined with a passion for patient impact, is driving innovation in brain…
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From Post-its to People: The Making of LYEONS Heart
Understanding Anxiety Behind the scenes, LYEONS team has been diving into research and ongoing discussions—exploring how we can better support people with anxiety. At the Cambridge Neuroscience event, experts came together to talk about the urgent need for better mental health support. It reaffirmed our belief in the importance of research, innovation, and patient-centred care.…