Update: Let’s transform brain health from “suffer-in-silence” to “let-me-take-control”

Time for our Sep­tem­ber 2014 e‑newsletter, fea­tur­ing a wealth of insights  and inno­va­tions reports…including four thought-pro­vok­ing inter­views with Spon­sors of the 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Octo­ber 28–30th). Enjoy!

New per­spec­tives at the fron­tier of Brain, Health & Innovation:

• Bar­bara Arrow­smith Young: Every kid should prac­tice stress reduc­tion and tar­get­ed cog­ni­tive exer­cis­es at school
• Michael Meagher (Cog­nic­i­ti): Let’s trans­form brain health from “suf­fer-in-silence” to “let-me-take-con­trol”
• Ita­mar Lesu­isse (Peak): My inter­est in brain train­ing stemmed from my own inadequacies
• Sil­via Dami­ano (About my Brain Insti­tute): Why not democ­ra­tise access to neuroscience?

New trends:

• School-based pro­grams to enhance resilience and emotional/ cog­ni­tive flexibility
• The next in wear­ables: Har­ness­ing EEG for “the mass­es” to track and enhance mind fitness
• Three Ways to Bring Mind­ful­ness Into Therapy
• Gen­er­al Motors to adopt eye, head-track­ing tech­nol­o­gy to reduce dis­tract­ed driving
• To build a health­i­er future, let’s empow­er and equip indi­vid­u­als to be in con­trol of their well-being

New stud­ies:

• A new psy­choso­cial treat­ment for Inat­ten­tive ADHD
• Long-term use of anx­i­ety and sleep­ing pills can increase Alzheimer’s risk
• From anti-depres­sant “mag­ic pills” towards tar­get­ed com­bi­na­tion of med­ica­tions and cog­ni­tive therapy
• The brain ben­e­fits of learn­ing and speak­ing a sec­ond language

Final­ly, you may want to try this brain teas­er to test your mul­ti-task­ing abil­i­ties…and, if you are inter­est­ed in all these top­ics for pro­fes­sion­al rea­sons, please con­sid­er join­ing us at the 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Octo­ber 28–30th) — you can reg­is­ter with a 10% dis­count using pro­mo­tion­al code: sharp2014

Have a great month of October!