Posts Tagged ‘drugs’
Update: A Fresh Look at Enhancing Brain & Mental Health Across the Lifespan
Time for SharpBrains’ May 2013 e‑newsletter, which features a variety of articles offering a more optimistic and evidence-based approach to brain and mental health than current practices. First of all, let us highlight that Scientific American just published an excellent review of our new book. The author sums it up by saying that “…I wish I had read…
Read MoreChallenging medical dogma: Mental exercise vs drugs, supplements and physical exercise to prevent cognitive decline
Mental exercises may prevent mental decline in seniors (CBC News): “A review released by the Canadian Medical Association Journal on the prevention of cognitive decline said that medicinal and non-medicinal products, and physical exercise did nothing to prevent the decline in healthy seniors, but mental exercises
Read MoreDrugs for Early-Stage Alzheimer’s?
Drugs for Early-Stage Alzheimer’s (good New York Times editorial): “The Food and Drug Administration has proposed lowering the bar for approving drugs to treat people at the earliest stages of Alzheimer’s disease, before they have developed any serious impairment or overt dementia. The goal is commendable — to find ways to prevent or slow the…
Read MoreNeurologists prescribing cognitive enhancement drugs to healthy kids and adults?
According to a new position statement by the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), prescribing cognitive enhancement, “attention-boosting,” drugs to healthy children is misguided and not justifiable. Interestingly, a 2009 position statement by AAN still in force today stated that doing so with adult “patients” is both legal and ethical (including the remark that “Neurologists who prescribe medications…
Read MoreAlzheimer’s Disease population to triple: We need smarter research, public health initiatives and lifestyles
According to a new study, the population with Alzheimer’s Disease in the US will triple by 2050: from 4.7 millions in 2010 to 13.8 millions. This emphasizes the urgent need for more research to find preventive measures, and for more enlightened public health initiatives and individual lifestyles designed to decrease dementia risks and delay onset of symptoms.…
Read MoreNew Report: Human Enhancement and the Future of Work
Summary of the report just issued by The Royal Society in the UK: “Although the impact of human enhancement technologies has been widely debated, until now they have not been considered in terms of their impact upon the nature of work…the Academy of Medical Sciences, British Academy, Royal Academy of Engineering and Royal Society came…
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