Accelerating brain health research via online registries

By SharpBrains | April 10, 2014

San Fran­­cis­­co-based online ‘brain reg­istry’ seeks vol­un­teers to trans­form research (San Jose Mer­cury News): “By vol­un­teer­ing — repeat­ed­ly over time — par­tic­i­pants join a pool of research sub­jects in the new Brain Health Reg­istry, opened Tues­day, for stud­ies on brain dis­eases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkin­son’s, as well as depres­sion, post-trau­­mat­ic stress dis­or­der and oth­er neurological…

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Combining non-invasive brain stimulation with cognitive training to treat Alzheimer’s Disease

By SharpBrains | October 24, 2012

Israeli med­ical device offers new Alzheimer’s treat­ment (Reuters): “Accord­ing to Alvaro Pas­cual-Leone, direc­tor of the hos­pi­tal’s Beren­­son-Allen Cen­tre for Non-inva­­sive Brain Stim­u­la­tion, brain stim­u­la­tion — or tran­scra­nial mag­net­ic stim­u­la­tion — involves a very low cur­rent applied to a spe­cif­ic part of the brain and

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Gait Changes as Indicator of Cognitive Health Decline

By SharpBrains | July 17, 2012

Foot­prints to Cog­ni­tive Decline and Alzheimer’s Are Seen in Gait (The New York Times): “The way peo­ple walk appears to speak vol­umes about the way they think, so much so that changes in an old­er person’s gait appear to be an ear­ly indi­ca­tor of cog­ni­tive impair­ment, includ­ing Alzheimer’s disease…Five stud­ies pre­sent­ed at the Alzheimer’s Asso­ci­a­tion International…

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