Posts Tagged ‘Brain-Imaging’
Lifestyle and neurotechnology over genetics
?” Dear colleague, It’s remarkable how quickly things are changing, finally, in brain health and mental health — see for example what’s new with Interaxon, Akili, NeuraMetrix, Apple, Calm, Halo Neuroscience, Mindstrong Health, Novartis, Pear Therapeutics, and lifelong neurogenesis, all in the last 6 months! Please enjoy the May edition of SharpBrains eNewsletter below, and consider joining the…
Read MoreBrain imaging show that patients with Alzheimer’s disease can still remember and enjoy their favorite songs
___ Music Activates Regions of the Brain Spared by Alzheimer’s Disease (University of Utah): “Ever get chills listening to a particularly moving piece of music? You can thank the salience network of the brain for that emotional joint. Surprisingly, this region also remains an island of remembrance that is spared from the ravages of Alzheimer’s disease.…
Read MoreTara Thiagarajan, Founder of Brainnovations Winner Sapien Labs, on building a global platform for brain research that truly captures the diversity of humanity
___ What surprised you the most from the Judges’ questions and feedback during the Brainnovations Pitch Contest? I was pleasantly surprised to see the significant range and depth of knowledge shown by the judging panel, leading to very specific and useful questions around the key challenges to build our global research platform. In a nutshell,…
Read MoreSuzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology (SIBET) to host “brain-imaging factory” enabling large-scale, standardized data generation
_______________________ China launches brain-imaging factory (Nature): “Neuroscientists who painstakingly map the twists and turns of neural circuitry through the brain are about to see their field expand to an industrial scale. A huge facility set to open in Suzhou, China, next month should transform high-resolution brain mapping, its developers say.
Read MoreUpdate: To honor Brain Awareness Week 2017, let’s highlight 10 Key Facts To Harness Neuroplasticity And Improve Brain Fitness
— Last week was Brain Awareness Week, so let’s first of all discuss these 10 Key Facts to Harness Neuroplasticity & Improve Brain Fitness coming from the hundreds of scientific and medical studies we analyzed to prepare the book The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness: How to Improve Brain Health and Performance at Any Age. And here’s the rest…
Read MoreNew brain imaging methods help detect giant, superconnected neurons such as this one (in a mouse’s brain)
A Giant Neuron Has Been Found Wrapped Around the Entire Circumference of the Brain (Science Alert): “For the first time, scientists have detected a giant neuron wrapped around the entire circumference of a mouse’s brain, and it’s so densely connected across both hemispheres, it could finally explain the origins of consciousness.
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