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Update: Alzheimer’s Disease population to triple — unless we prevent or delay it

February 27, 2013 by SharpBrains

Time for Sharp­Brains’ Feb­ru­ary 2013 eNewslet­ter, fea­tur­ing this time new sci­ence and analy­sis on Alzheimer’s Dis­ease, ADHD, men­tal well-being, brain health, and more. Enjoy!

New sci­ence:

  • Alzheimer’s Dis­ease pop­u­la­tion to triple: We need smarter research, pub­lic health ini­tia­tives and lifestyles, by Pas­cale Mich­e­lon, PhD
  • Nation­al Sci­ence Foun­da­tion report: Can inter­ac­tive media boost atten­tion and well-being?
  • Study: Mind­ful­ness train­ing for chil­dren with ADHD and their par­ents, by David Rabin­er, PhD
  • New $1 mil­lion grant to study work­ing mem­o­ry train­ing in chil­dren with frag­ile X

New analy­sis:

  • Using Your Head: What is the Future of Brain Health?, where David Coleiro inter­views Alvaro Fernandez
  • Biofeed­back is a “Lev­el 1 — Best Sup­port” Inter­ven­tion for Atten­tion and Hyper­ac­tiv­i­ty Behaviors
  • Is the Inter­net Good or Bad for Your Brain?, by Alvaro Fernandez

Upcom­ing events:

  • ESCoNS2 (LA), Har­vard, WEF (Lima), Neu­rogam­ing (San Fran­cis­co), mesh13 (Toron­to):  Alvaro Fer­nan­dez will be speak­ing at sev­er­al events in the next few months. If you’re a Sharp­Brains friend and speak­ing at/ attend­ing any, please make sure to say Hello!

Have a great month of March.

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, SharpBrains Monthly eNewsletter Tagged With: adhd, Alzheimers-disease, attention, biofeedback, brain, Brain-health, interactive media, Internet, Mindfulness-Training, well-being, working-memory-training

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