Reading for pleasure during childhood may lead to higher brain/ cognitive development and mental well-being during adolescence

July 19, 2023  |

Ear­ly child­hood is a crit­i­cal peri­od for brain devel­op­ment, which is impor­tant for boost­ing cog­ni­tion and men­tal well­be­ing. Good brain health at this age is direct­ly linked to bet­ter men­tal heath, cog­ni­tion and edu­ca­tion­al attain­ment in ado­les­cence and adult­hood. It can also pro­vide resilience in times of stress. But, sad­ly, brain devel­op­ment can be hampered…

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Virtual cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) accounts for over 30% of NHS mental health treatments — up from 10% in 2017

July 12, 2023  | Com­ments Off on Vir­tu­al cog­ni­tive behav­iour­al ther­a­py (CBT) accounts for over 30% of NHS men­tal health treat­ments — up from 10% in 2017

Con­cern as a third of NHS men­tal health treat­ments shift online (The Guardian): An Observ­er analy­sis of data from pri­vate providers, cross-checked against NHS fig­ures, reveals around one in three men­tal health treat­ments in Eng­land are deliv­ered online, up from one in five in 2019, and one in 10 in 2017. Patients with mild to…

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Major evidence review supports an “exercise prescription” for most adults to boost mental health and well-being

July 6, 2023  | Com­ments Off on Major evi­dence review sup­ports an “exer­cise pre­scrip­tion” for most adults to boost men­tal health and well-being

When you head to your week­ly yoga class or lift weights at the gym, you’re doing some­thing good for your phys­i­cal health: get­ting more fit today, and so pro­tect­ing your body into the future. What you may not always think about, though, is that you’re also pro­tect­ing your­self from anx­i­ety and depression—about as much as…

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Should doctors prescribe Leqembi (lecanemab) to women with early Alzheimer’s Disease? The evidence-based answer is probably No

June 28, 2023  | Com­ments Off on Should doc­tors pre­scribe Leqem­bi (lecanemab) to women with ear­ly Alzheimer’s Dis­ease? The evi­dence-based answer is prob­a­bly No

Wel­come to a new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains e‑newsletter, fea­tur­ing this time a range of inter­ven­tions for brain/ cognitive/ men­tal health plus a few brain teasers to test our per­cep­tion and cog­ni­tive skills. #1. Should doc­tors pre­scribe lecanemab (Leqem­bi) to women? The answer, giv­en avail­able evi­dence, is prob­a­bly No Huge (and most­ly over­looked) red flag regard­ing newly…

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Growing controversy over role of FDA and Medicare in promoting anti-amyloid drugs given limited benefit, high cost, severe side-effects

June 21, 2023  | Com­ments Off on Grow­ing con­tro­ver­sy over role of FDA and Medicare in pro­mot­ing anti-amy­loid drugs giv­en lim­it­ed ben­e­fit, high cost, severe side-effects

The War Over Whether Medicare Should Pay For The New Anti-Alzheimer’s Drugs (Forbes): The pow­er­ful Alzheimer’s Dis­ease lob­by is fight­ing a mul­ti-bil­lion-dol­lar bat­tle on two fronts. It is qui­et­ly try­ing to lim­it restric­tions the Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion puts on the use of new drugs aimed at slow­ing the pro­gres­sion of the brain dis­ease. And…

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The National Health Service (NHS) in England to roll-out nine online cognitive-behavioural therapies (CBT) for adults with anxiety or depression

June 14, 2023  | Com­ments Off on The Nation­al Health Ser­vice (NHS) in Eng­land to roll-out nine online cog­ni­tive-behav­iour­al ther­a­pies (CBT) for adults with anx­i­ety or depression

Online depres­sion ther­a­py giv­en go-ahead in Eng­land (BBC News): Nine online talk­ing-ther­a­py treat­ments for anx­i­ety or depres­sion have been giv­en the green light to be used by the NHS in England.

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Study: Self-guided internet-delivered treatment can significantly reduce ADHD symptoms among adults

June 7, 2023  | Com­ments Off on Study: Self-guid­ed inter­net-deliv­ered treat­ment can sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduce ADHD symp­toms among adults

Although ADHD was orig­i­nal­ly con­sid­ered to be a dis­or­der of child­hood, it has been clear for years that it also impacts adults. At least 60% of chil­dren diag­nosed with ADHD strug­gle with symp­toms into adult­hood and the esti­mat­ed preva­lence of ADHD in adults is between 4 and 5%. As with chil­dren and teens, med­ica­tion treat­ment is…

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How the Arts transform our Brains, Bodies, and Minds

May 31, 2023  | Com­ments Off on How the Arts trans­form our Brains, Bod­ies, and Minds

One of my favorite say­ings comes from David Thore­au: “My life has been the poem I would have writ / But I could not both live and utter it.” It speaks to the way that life and art are inter­twined, and how we gain so much from liv­ing life with a sense of beau­ty and…

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Final week to nominate teachers for the $1M Global Teacher Prize 2023

May 22, 2023  | Com­ments Off on Final week to nom­i­nate teach­ers for the $1M Glob­al Teacher Prize 2023

Dear friends, We hope you are doing well. There is now less than one week to go until appli­ca­tions and nom­i­na­tions close for the Glob­al Teacher Prize, and we want­ed to ask you to help us spread the word. The Glob­al Teacher Prize serves to under­line the impor­tance of edu­ca­tors and the fact that, through­out the…

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Smartphone-based cognitive behavioral therapy found to significantly decrease insomnia, substantially outperforming sleep education

May 17, 2023  | Com­ments Off on Smart­phone-based cog­ni­tive behav­ioral ther­a­py found to sig­nif­i­cant­ly decrease insom­nia, sub­stan­tial­ly out­per­form­ing sleep education

Dig­i­tal Ther­a­py for Insom­nia More Effec­tive Than Sleep Edu­ca­tion, Study Finds (Amer­i­can Jour­nal of Man­aged Care): A smart­­­phone-based, Chi­nese culture­–adapted dig­i­tal cog­ni­tive behav­ioral ther­a­py for insom­nia (DCBT‑I) appli­ca­tion improved insom­nia sever­i­ty com­pared with sleep edu­ca­tion, accord­ing to find­ings of a study pub­lished in JAMA Net­work Open. Researchers want­ed to study the effi­ca­cy of this DCBT‑I app compared…

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