August e‑newsletter: Inside Out, Coffee, Stress, Poverty, Exercise, Brain Training, and more SharpBrains News

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Time for Sharp­Brains’ August e‑newsletter, wrap­ping up this month’s key brain-relat­ed news and stud­ies, and fea­tur­ing Four “Inside Out” insights to dis­cuss and improve our kids’ emo­tion­al lives (and our own).

New studies:

• With excep­tions, mod­er­ate cof­fee drink­ing may help pro­tect against mild cog­ni­tive impairment
• Struc­tur­al brain dif­fer­ences due to child­hood pover­ty may account for 20% of the aca­d­e­m­ic achieve­ment gap
• Unreg­u­lat­ed stress can sab­o­tage your self-con­trol and your diet
• Cell phone use not seen to increase risk of brain tumors among adults
• Grow­ing evi­dence that brain health requires per­son­al­ized, mul­ti-pronged interventions
• Improv­ing pro­cess­ing speed seen as key tar­get to help patients with mul­ti­ple sclerosis

New thinking:

• How Does a Child’s Brain Learn?
• The bil­lion dol­lar ques­tion: Under what con­di­tions can brain train­ing result in real-world benefits?

New tools:

• Med­i­ta­tion apps help spread the practice
• The Fed­er­al Trade Com­mis­sion chal­lenges brain health claims by Pro­cera AVH dietary supplement
• Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty ranked #23 Hold­er of Per­va­sive Neu­rotech Intel­lec­tu­al Property*
• Inven­tion Sci­ence Fund ranked #25 Hold­er of Per­va­sive Neu­rotech Intel­lec­tu­al Property*

Final­ly, a reminder to Save the Date for 2015 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit (Novem­ber 17–19th), where lead­ing experts will dis­cuss Mon­i­tor­ing & Enhanc­ing Brain Health in the Per­va­sive Neu­rotech­nol­ogy Era.

To reg­is­ter with 10% dis­count, use this code: sharp2015.

Have a great month of September.