Update: Should Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (not antidepressant drugs) be the first-line treatment for depression?

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Time for Sharp­Brains’ Novem­ber e‑newsletter, fea­tur­ing a wealth of brain health insights, neu­ro­science and psy­chol­o­gy research reports…and some fun brain teasers. Enjoy!

New think­ing:

• Should Cog­ni­tive Behav­iour­al Ther­a­py (not anti­de­pres­sant drugs) be the first-line treat­ment for depression?
• Access the slides and insights from 40+ speak­ers @ 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Summit
• Debate: Is there a link between ADHD and Creativity?
• The “Holy Grail”: How to dri­ve behav­ior change by har­ness­ing neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty and emotions

New research:

• Top 10 recent sci­en­tif­ic stud­ies on the val­ue of mind­ful­ness in education
• Grow­ing evi­dence that vit­a­min, folic acid sup­ple­ments do not improve cog­ni­tive per­for­mance or pre­vent Alzheimer’s Disease
• Shift work chron­i­cal­ly impairs cognition
• ADHD @ high schools: Clear mis­match between the evi­dence and the practice

New solu­tions:

• A Call to Action: Improv­ing brain & men­tal health via dig­i­tal plat­forms, neu­ro­plas­tic­ity research and the White House BRAIN initiative
• Brain train­ing 2.0: Adding 3D Nav­i­ga­tion to max­i­mize fidelity
• Har­ness­ing big data and videogames to deliv­er per­son­al­ized cog­ni­tive training
• How bio­met­rics and cog­ni­tive train­ing can help improve ath­let­ic performance

Final­ly, you may want to try these quick brain teasers to exer­cise your atten­tion and work­ing mem­o­ry.

Enjoy a hap­py Thanks­giv­ing and a great month of December!

- The Sharp­Brains Team