Update: How to civilize the brain training Wild West

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Time for Sharp­Brains’ Octo­ber e‑newsletter, wrap­ping up this month’s key brain-relat­ed news. First of all, here’s a brain teas­er for you: How many hair­cuts do you think hap­pen in Amer­i­ca every year?

Innovation news:

• How to best civ­i­lize the mobile brain health and brain train­ing Wild West (Tip: Con­sumer edu­ca­tion may help more than pure regulation)
• The Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy Rev­o­lu­tion: “The future is here; it’s just not even­ly dis­trib­uted yet”
• Pros and Cons of lat­est wear­able tech trend: Mood-alter­ing elec­tri­cal brain stimulation

Research news:

• Why do (some) col­lege stu­dents mis­use ADHD medication?
• To reach your cog­ni­tive poten­tial across the whole lifes­pan, aug­ment healthy lifestyle with brain training
• Sci­en­tists call for net­work of “brain obser­va­to­ries” to accel­er­ate neu­rotech­nol­o­gy research and innovation
• Grow­ing demand for dig­i­tal psy­chother­a­pies to help vet­er­ans deal with sub­stance abuse, depres­sion, prob­lem solv­ing and insomnia

Food for thought:

• Train­ing our brains with nov­el­ty, challenge…and videogames (20-minute pan­el discussion)
• Para mejo­rar nues­tra salud cere­bral y rendimien­to men­tal, desmon­te­mos primero estos diez mitos sobre el cerebro
• Tech­nol­o­gy to enable patient-cen­tered, col­lab­o­ra­tive behav­ioral health and chron­ic care management

Final­ly, here are a few visu­al illu­sions to tease our brains and minds…and, also, please don’t for­get to Reg­is­ter and Reserve your spot at the upcom­ing 2015 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit (Novem­ber 17–19th), to dis­cuss all these impor­tant news and trends, and more! (10%-off pro­mo code: sharp2015)