Lifestyle Matters: Let’s optimize cognition, health and life in 2024

By SharpBrains | December 27, 2023

Wel­come to a new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains e‑newsletter, fea­tur­ing fas­ci­nat­ing research find­ings on lifestyle, pro­tec­tive brain struc­tures, Inter­net access, men­tal health, brain imag­ing, and more. #1. Lifestyle mat­ters: What we can do in 2024 to opti­mize cog­ni­tion and life, delay­ing cog­ni­tive prob­lems even demen­tia “Actor Chris Hemsworth…watched his grand­fa­ther live with Alzheimer’s and is mak­ing lifestyle…

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FDA-approved, Cybin-sponsored clinicial trial to measure ketamine’s impact on the brain via Kernel Flow neuroimaging helmet

By SharpBrains | November 22, 2021

Kernel’s Brain-Imag­ing Hel­met Approved For Clin­i­cal Tri­al On Patients Using Ket­a­mine (Forbes): The U.S. Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion has approved a clin­i­cal tri­al using a neu­roimag­ing hel­met made by Los Ange­les-based Ker­nel to track what hap­pens in the brain when a human takes a psy­che­del­ic dose of ketamine.

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Flexibility is good except when it isn’t: Study finds how scientists can reach different conclusions analyzing the same brain scans

By SharpBrains | August 4, 2020

Neu­roimag­ing: Many Ana­lysts, Dif­fer­ing Results (Dana Foun­da­tion): For decades, both the research and med­ical com­mu­ni­ties have relied on neu­roimag­ing tools like func­tion­al mag­net­ic res­o­nance imag­ing (fMRI) to give them a win­dow into the liv­ing human brain. Such scans have pro­vid­ed unprece­dent­ed insights into the brain’s struc­ture and func­tion – and the field, as a whole,…

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Jobs with low physical stress and good working conditions linked to larger hippocampus and better memory

By SharpBrains | July 21, 2020

CSU study links phys­i­cal stress on the job with brain and mem­o­ry decline in old­er age (press release): A new study out of Col­orado State Uni­ver­si­ty has found that phys­i­cal stress in one’s job may be asso­ci­at­ed with faster brain aging and poor­er mem­o­ry. Aga Burzyn­s­ka, an assis­tant pro­fes­sor in the Depart­ment of Human Development…

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Update: Moderate lifetime drinking may lead to lower Alzheimer-related beta amyloid deposits in the brain

By SharpBrains | April 24, 2020

__ Time for a new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains’ e‑newsletter. #1. First of all, it’s not all bad news this month. Study finds that mod­er­ate life­time drink­ing may lead to low­er Alzheimer-relat­ed beta amy­loid deposits in the brain #2. And, talk about per­son­al­ized med­i­cine! This fas­ci­nat­ing study show­ing how brain imag­ing (fMRI) + machine learn­ing + inten­sive, non-invasive…

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On Mental Health and the advent of Digital Phenotyping

By SharpBrains | December 4, 2018

___ Build­ing the Ther­mome­ter for Men­tal Health (The Dana Foun­da­tion): “Imag­ine that you vis­it your physi­cian com­plain­ing of a fever and, rather than tak­ing out a ther­mome­ter, they begin hov­er­ing their “edu­cat­ed hands” over you. Grad­u­al­ly, they press down against your arm to gain a full impres­sion of your skin’s tem­per­a­ture and the “deep­er seated…

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