Healthy Brain: Healthy Europe Con­fer­ence (speech by the Euro­pean Com­mis­sioner for Research, Inno­va­tion and Science):

“…Brain research and inno­va­tion con­tribute to Europe 2020‘s, aims not just by improv­ing qual­ity of life and help­ing inte­grate patients back into their social and work­ing lives, but also Read the rest of this entry »

Design a Brain Exper­i­ment Com­pe­ti­tion, by the Dana Foundation:

“The Dana Foun­da­tion is devoted to pro­mot­ing an inter­est in brain research in schools across the coun­try. Encour­ag­ing stu­dents to take an inter­est in sci­en­tific research, espe­cially related to the brain, is cru­cial, not only for stu­dents, but also for the future devel­op­ment of neu­ro­science. Read the rest of this entry »

Brain Aware­ness Week (BAW) is the global cam­paign, orga­nized by the Dana Alliance for Brain Ini­tia­tives, to increase pub­lic aware­ness of the progress and ben­e­fits of brain research. Every March, BAW unites the efforts of part­ner orga­ni­za­tions world­wide in a cel­e­bra­tion of the brain for peo­ple of all ages. Events are Read the rest of this entry »

Brain func­tion can start declin­ing ‘as early as age 45′ (BBC Health):

“The brain’s abil­ity to func­tion can start to dete­ri­o­rate as early as 45, sug­gests a study in the British Med­ical Jour­nal.  Uni­ver­sity Col­lege Lon­don researchers found a 3.6% decline in men­tal rea­son­ing in women and men aged 45–49. They assessed the mem­ory, vocab­u­lary and com­pre­hen­sion skills of 7,000 men and women aged 45 to 70 over 10 years.

The Alzheimer’s Soci­ety said research was needed into how changes in the brain could help demen­tia diag­noses.  Read the rest of this entry »

We just noticed that the Alliance for Aging Research offers an excel­lent list of ref­er­ences on Brain Health Research, orga­nized in these 10 sec­tions below. Enjoy!

#1 Nour­ish Your Nog­gin: Eat a Brain Healthy Diet Read the rest of this entry »

Got a Brain?

If so, please join us in cel­e­brat­ing Brain Aware­ness Week (March 14-20th), the annual global cam­paign orga­nized by the Dana Foun­da­tion to increase pub­lic aware­ness about the progress and ben­e­fits of brain research.

Want to learn about activ­i­ties in your area? Please visit BAW’s Inter­na­tional Cal­en­dar of events.

Want to dis­cuss pro­fes­sional impli­ca­tions from this research, cross-sector part­ner­ships and indus­try oppor­tu­ni­ties? Con­sider reg­is­ter­ing for our very own BAW Part­ner event, the 2011 Sharp­Brains Sum­mit (March 30th — April 1st).

As part of the research behind the book The Sharp­Brains Guide for Brain Fit­ness we inter­viewed dozens of lead­ing cog­ni­tive health and fit­ness sci­en­tists and experts world­wide to learn about their research and thoughts, and have a num­ber of take-aways to report.

What can we clearly say today that we couldn’t have said only 10 years ago? That what neu­ro­science pio­neer San­ti­ago Ramon y Cajal claimed in the XX cen­tury, “Every man can, if he so desires, become the sculp­tor his own brain”, may well become real­ity in the XXI.

And trans­form Edu­ca­tion, Health, Train­ing, and Gam­ing in the process, since Read the rest of this entry »