Train­ing pro­gram improved inat­ten­tive symp­toms in chil­dren with ADHD (Healio Pediatrics):

“An 8-week inter­ven­tion with a brain-computer interface-based atten­tion train­ing pro­gram sig­nif­i­cantly improved inat­ten­tive symp­toms asso­ci­ated with attention-deficit/hyperactivity dis­or­der in chil­dren aged 6 to 12 years, accord­ing to recent study results Read the rest of this entry »

Fun futur­is­tic vision over at The Atlantic, titled The Extremely Per­sonal Com­puter: The Dig­i­tal Future of Men­tal Health:

“It’s 2018, and you’re not feel­ing your best. Yes­ter­day, on the phone with Com­cast, you for­got your social secu­rity num­ber, and had to call your mom to get it…You fire up your PC and dig out your bio­mon­i­tor wrist strap. Read the rest of this entry »

Time for Sharp­Brains’ Sep­tem­ber 2012 eNewslet­ter, fea­tur­ing leading-edge research and insights to help con­nect the dots among tech­nol­ogy, healthy liv­ing, healthare, con­cus­sions, and–our protagonist–the brain.

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• Is the Inter­net mak­ing us dumber? (Nope, just different)
• Increas­ing cog­ni­tive loads on min­ers’ brains: good exam­ple of where soci­ety is heading
• Brain fit­ness meets HRV and EEG biometrics
• Employee Assis­tance Pro­grams enhance cor­po­rate well­ness with brain training
• The NIH Toolbox:First Com­pre­hen­sive & Stan­dard­ized Tests of Brain Function
• MMSE®/MMSE®-2™ Cog­ni­tive Impair­ment Screener, Now a Mobile App

Healthy Liv­ing & the Brain:

• Why do Super­Agers Main­tain Mem­ory and a Thick Cortex?
• Will Medicare’s Annual Well­ness Visit enhance phys­i­cal & cog­ni­tive health? Prob­a­bly — if peo­ple go
• Health value of Omega-3 sup­ple­ments is increas­ingly questioned
• Good Q&A on Mild Cog­ni­tive Impairment

Health­care & the Brain:

• Map­ping the Brain To Bet­ter Enhance and Treat the Mind
• Cog­ni­tive ther­apy or med­ica­tion? Brain scans may help per­son­al­ize treatments
• Mon­i­tor­ing EEG Brain Activ­ity to Per­son­al­ize Mem­ory Training
• Train­ing Atten­tion and Mem­ory after Bypass Surgery
• MRI scan tech­ni­cians can expe­ri­ence neg­a­tive neu­rocog­ni­tive effects

Con­cus­sions & the Brain:

• Retool­ing cog­ni­tive reha­bil­i­ta­tion for mil­i­tary patients with trau­matic brain injury
• NFL donates $30 mil­lion to improve con­cus­sion & brain injury care

Pic cour­tesy of Big­Stock­Photo

As an active par­tic­i­pant in the Open­ViBE project (a soft­ware plat­form to design, test and use Brain-Computer Inter­faces), in sci­en­tific as well as tech­ni­cal capac­i­ties, I have long been focused on ways to process, ana­lyze and put brain sig­nals to prac­ti­cal use. When I started read­ing on the sub­ject of brain fit­ness a few years ago, I rec­og­nized the poten­tial to enhance a vari­ety of brain train­ing approaches, from med­i­ta­tion to cog­ni­tive train­ing, by deploy­ing Read the rest of this entry »

Neu­ro­science map­ping brain con­nec­tions (Los Ange­les Times):

“The Human Con­nec­tome Project, a $40-million endeavor funded by the National Insti­tutes of Health, aims to plot these con­nec­tions — both their struc­ture and their func­tion. “It’s basi­cally a Man­hat­tan Project to try to estab­lish the wiring dia­gram,” Koroshetz says…The quest Read the rest of this entry »

San­dia shows mon­i­tor­ing brain activ­ity dur­ing study can help pre­dict test per­for­mance (press release):

“The team mon­i­tored test sub­jects’ brain activ­ity while they stud­ied word lists, then used the EEG (elec­troen­cephalog­ra­phy) to pre­dict who would remem­ber the most infor­ma­tion. Because Read the rest of this entry »

In June of this year, Sharp­Brains hosted its third annual online “vir­tual sum­mit” on our evolv­ing under­stand­ing of how the human brain works, and how it can be made to work bet­ter. As read­ers of this blog know, Sharp­Brains is a US-based mar­ket research firm and think tank ded­i­cated to study­ing the sci­en­tific, social, and busi­ness trends asso­ci­ated with brain health and per­for­mance. As always, the sum­mit fea­tured a range of con­tri­bu­tions from sci­en­tists and busi­ness lead­ers whose com­mon inter­est is in gath­er­ing, com­pil­ing and apply­ing knowl­edge about the brain.

The foun­da­tional con­vic­tion of the sum­mit orga­niz­ers and atten­dees is that Read the rest of this entry »