{"id":230756,"date":"2026-04-03T11:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/wearable-technologys-growing-role-in-monitoring-brain-health\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T11:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:25:10","slug":"wearable-technologys-growing-role-in-monitoring-brain-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/wearable-technologys-growing-role-in-monitoring-brain-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Wearable Technology&#8217;s Growing Role in Monitoring Brain Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainandlife.org\/articles\/wearable-technologys-role-monitoring-brain-health\">Wearable Technology&#8217;s Growing Role in Monitoring Brain Health<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainandlife.org\/articles\/wearable-technologys-role-monitoring-brain-health\">https:\/\/www.brainandlife.org\/articles\/wearable-technologys-role-monitoring-brain-health<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-03 11:07:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.brainandlife.org\">www.brainandlife.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shutterstock.com<\/p>\n<p>For more than a decade, people have used wearable technology (wearables) like the Oura Ring or Apple Watch to manage their physical and mental health. They track daily steps, heart rate, sleep patterns, and even blood oxygen levels. Now, neurologists are using wearables to help their patients manage chronic conditions such as epilepsy, Parkinson\u2019s disease, and stroke.<\/p>\n<p>Neurologists use the information that the wearable tracks to help them better understand a patient\u2019s conditions and symptoms like seizure, migraine, multiple sclerosis-related fatigue, or Parkinson\u2019s disease mobility change. \u201cThis can lead to earlier intervention and better patient engagement,\u201d explains Smita Patel, DO, MS, FAAN, an integrative neurologist and sleep medicine physician at Endeavor Health in Glenview, IL. \u201c[Wearables] can track sleep, circadian rhythm, and heart rate variability, all of which strongly influence neurological function,\u201d she adds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>How Wearables Benefit Brain Health<\/h4>\n<p>Anup Patel, MD, FAAN, a professor in clinical pediatrics and neurology at the Ohio State University College of Medicine, encourages patients to use wearables to track health metrics throughout the day. \u201c[The device] helps people to see that their heart rate spikes when they drink alcohol or their blood pressure rises when they eat salty food,\u201d he explains. Research suggests\u00a0that these wearables can spur behavior change.\u201cOftentimes, when patients see health consequences in real time, they\u2019re more likely to focus on lifestyle interventions such as eating a heart-healthy diet or engaging in more regular exercise,\u201d Dr. Anup Patel adds.<\/p>\n<p>The wearables track sleep quality, physical activity, and heart rate variability, which all play a role in brain health. Dr. Smita Patel explains that getting seven to nine hours of sleep helps your brain clear out waste and consolidate memories; getting enough daily movement\u20147,000 to 10,000 steps\u2014improves blood flow to the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainandlife.org\/articles\/wearable-technologys-role-monitoring-brain-health\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wearable Technology&#8217;s Growing Role in Monitoring Brain Health https:\/\/www.brainandlife.org\/articles\/wearable-technologys-role-monitoring-brain-health Publish Date: 2026-04-03 11:07:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/www.brainandlife.org\/siteassets\/article-images\/2026\/26-wearable-technology-brain-health-1200x630.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[101],"class_list":["post-230756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230758,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230756\/revisions\/230758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}