Update: What do schizophrenia, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, addiction, and obsessive-compulsive disorder, have in common?
February 26, 2015//Comments Off on Update: What do schizophrenia, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, addiction, and obsessive-compulsive disorder, have in common?
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Time for SharpBrains’ February e‑newsletter, featuring a wealth of neuroscience and neurotechnology news and brain health insights.
New research
- Question: What do people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, addiction, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and anxiety have in common? Answer: A brain with similar gray-matter loss
- Long-term meditation can help slow down aging-related brain volume decline
- Fewer than 19% of ADHD treatment plans monitor treatment response according to guidelines
- The real brain drain: How unemployment depletes cognitive and emotional resources
- Research series: How, when and why does targeted cognitive training work to promote behavioral and emotional health?
New thinking
- Why retirement planning should include mental fitness
- 5 Reasons Why Parents of Children with ADHD Need to Become Proactive, Well-Informed Advocates
- Open question: Can coffee & Ritalin’s mental effects be delivered, safely, over a smartphone?
- Poll: 93% believe mental health system needs to change
- Taking health (and brain health) care “beyond the pill”
New tools
- Non-invasive neurotechnology reaches senior housing via ASHA-NeuroVigil innovative partnership
- Harnessing fMRI neurofeedback to enhance attention and cognitive potential
- Combining EEG with augmented reality to reinvent brain-computer interactions
- Software-based assessments of memory & cognition to detect concussions after head trauma
- Wider use of mental health screenings in school-based settings
Have a great month of March!
Posted in Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation
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