Update: New tools, research and insights to reinvent Brain Health and Mental Health in the Digital Age

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Time for a new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains’ e‑newsletter, explor­ing a range of tech­nolo­gies, sci­en­tif­ic find­ings and insights for brain health and men­tal health to bet­ter respond to the oppor­tu­ni­ties and chal­lenges ahead.

Hap­py read­ing, and Hap­py Thanksgiving!

New tools:

• Brain Health in the Dig­i­tal Age (opens 24-slide presentation)
• Har­ness­ing brain scans to per­son­al­ize autism-relat­ed behav­ioral interventions
• UNICEF launch­es inter­ac­tive dig­i­tal brain devel­op­ment tool for young children
• Mobile, data-rich apps to mon­i­tor and pro­mote neu­rocog­ni­tive health

New research:

• Mind­ful med­i­ta­tion works. Now, how to nav­i­gate the most pop­u­lar options?
• For good and bad, TV ads pro­mote high­er pre­scrib­ing vol­ume of psy­chi­atric medications
• Study debunks the “ear­li­er is always bet­ter” myth about brain devel­op­ment and cog­ni­tive training
• “Could you repeat that?” Study links hear­ing loss to brain aging

New thinking:

• Improv­ing brain fit­ness lit­er­a­cy in Japan
• New “bion­ic hybrid neu­ro chip” to improve under­stand­ing of brain func­tion by enabling high-fideli­ty, long-term record­ings of brain cell activity
• New fund­ing pro­gram announced to pro­mote brain health inno­va­tion and collaboration

Final­ly, we are delight­ed to announce five new excel­lent Speak­ers at the upcom­ing 2016 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: Rein­vent­ing Brain Health in the Dig­i­tal Age (Decem­ber 6–8, 2016):

• Mary Stu­art, Senior Writer/Analyst at The MedTech Strategist
• Dr. Andrea Seri­no, Head of Neu­ro­science at Mind­Maze
• Lin­da Raines, CEO of the Men­tal Health Asso­ci­a­tion of Maryland
• Karen Olsen, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of the Cen­ter for the Future of Pub­lic Education
• David Coleiro, Part­ner at Strate­gic North

You can explore the Sum­mit Agen­da here, and Reg­is­ter here. Please con­sid­er join­ing us and help rein­vent brain health in the dig­i­tal age!

Thank­ful­ly,

The Sharp­Brains Team