The Brain Is Wondrous

What this short covers

Dr. Oliver Harrison shares his journey leveraging digital solutions to address the global gap in mental health services, including how his company Koa Health raised an oversubscribed €30M Series A round.

Transcript

This is like one kilo of jelly that sits inside your head that is responsible for your imagination, your emotion, your memory, your creativity, everything that we love about people and what makes us really special as a species and as as individual citizens. Um, and we are only just beginning to understand how it works. It is the most complicated organism in the universe. um uh hundreds of billions of cells interacting in um uh chemical, electronic um and uh in many ways metaphysical ways. Um and it's just wondrous. I fell in love with it as a kid and stay in love with it as of today. And I think what we've seen um certainly since the pandemic which focused the minds but really since the early 2000s is a very rapid increase in the prevalence of mental disorders particularly in younger People.

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