The 7 Habits of Highly Stress-Resilient Minds

March 7, 2023  | Com­ments Off on The 7 Habits of High­ly Stress-Resilient Minds

Are you suf­fer­ing from chron­ic stress? Many of us are—whether we’re stressed out by our jobs, com­pli­cat­ed rela­tion­ships, care­giv­ing respon­si­bil­i­ties, or the gen­er­al state of the world. That’s where Elis­sa Epel’s new book, The Stress Pre­scrip­tion, comes in. A health psy­chol­o­gist and direc­tor of the Aging, Metab­o­lism, and Emo­tions Cen­ter at the Uni­ver­si­ty of California,…

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CMS: anti-amyloid drug Leqembi (lecanemab) doesn’t meet the “reasonable and necessary” standard required for wider Medicare coverage

Feb­ru­ary 28, 2023  | Com­ments Off on CMS: anti-amy­loid drug Leqem­bi (lecanemab) doesn’t meet the “rea­son­able and nec­es­sary” stan­dard required for wider Medicare coverage

CMS Sticks to Sharply Lim­it­ed Cov­er­age of New Alzheimer’s Drug, Leqem­bi (Man­aged Health­care Exec­u­tive): For now, CMS (Note: Cen­ters for Medicare & Med­ic­aid Ser­vices) is stick­ing to the cov­er­age deci­sion it made for Aduhelm (adu­canum­ab) and apply­ing it Leqem­bi (lecanemab). The deci­sion lim­its Medicare cov­er­age of the two Alzheimer disease’s drugs to Medicare ben­e­fi­cia­ries who…

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BrainHealth Week starts today! Plus: dancing, personalized mental health, brain stimulation and more

Feb­ru­ary 20, 2023  | Com­ments Off on Brain­Health Week starts today! Plus: danc­ing, per­son­al­ized men­tal health, brain stim­u­la­tion and more

Wel­come to a new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains e‑newsletter, annouc­ing the kick-off of Brain­Health Week and fea­tur­ing some stim­u­lat­ing resources and teasers. #1. Brain­Health Week (Feb­ru­ary 20–24th) starts today: Explore many fun events includ­ing a dai­ly text chal­lenge, a talk with the always great Dr. Tom Insel, and more! #2. With­out Brain Health, you do not have…

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Sin salud cerebral, usted no tiene salud

Feb­ru­ary 14, 2023  | Com­ments Off on Sin salud cere­bral, ust­ed no tiene salud

A lo largo de la vida, su cere­bro va a exper­i­men­tar un desar­rol­lo extra­or­di­nario. Su cere­bro es el órgano más adapt­able y mod­i­fi­ca­ble de su cuer­po, y puede cam­biar tan­to pos­i­ti­va como neg­a­ti­va­mente, depen­di­en­do de cómo lo util­ice cada día. Sim­ple­mente leyen­do este libro, su cere­bro ha cam­bi­a­do. ¿Cuán­to y cómo va cam­biar en los…

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Without Brain Health, you do not have Health

Feb­ru­ary 10, 2023  |

As you go through life, your brain under­goes extra­or­di­nary devel­op­ment. Your brain is the most adapt­able, mod­i­fi­able organ in your body, and it can change both pos­i­tive­ly and neg­a­tive­ly by how you use it each day. Just by read­ing a book such as this one, your brain has been changed. How has your brain been…

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Mark your calendar for BrainHealth Week: February 20–24th

Feb­ru­ary 8, 2023  | Com­ments Off on Mark your cal­en­dar for Brain­Health Week: Feb­ru­ary 20–24th

The brain changes each and every day dur­ing our whole lives, based on how we use it. Health­i­er dai­ly habits can improve the tra­jec­to­ry of our lives. “A brain that can think crit­i­cal­ly, that can func­tion under stress, a brain that is resilient in the face of trau­ma, a brain that is cre­ative, that is thoughtful,…

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Alto Neuroscience raises $60M (equity + credit) to help fix the “trial and error” approach to psychiatric medication

Jan­u­ary 31, 2023  | Com­ments Off on Alto Neu­ro­science rais­es $60M (equi­ty + cred­it) to help fix the “tri­al and error” approach to psy­chi­atric medication

Alto Neu­ro­science bags $25M for four Phase II drugs (End­points News): Anoth­er $25 mil­lion is flow­ing the way of a Cal­i­for­nia biotech attempt­ing to fix the “tri­al and error” sys­tem in neu­ro­science drug R&D. Alto Neu­ro­science picked up the cap­i­tal from Alpha Wave Ven­tures via an exten­sion to its Series B, bring­ing total equi­ty raised…

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The European Society for Brain Stimulation opposes EU reclassification of TMS and tDCS, claiming a flawed safety assessment

Jan­u­ary 24, 2023  | Com­ments Off on The Euro­pean Soci­ety for Brain Stim­u­la­tion oppos­es EU reclas­si­fi­ca­tion of TMS and tDCS, claim­ing a flawed safe­ty assessment

Man­i­festo: Oppo­si­tion to EU Reclas­si­fi­ca­tion of TMS and tDCS equip­ment to Class III devices based on flawed evi­dence (Euro­pean Soci­ety for Brain Stim­u­la­tion): It has recent­ly come to our atten­tion that the EU has reclas­si­fied the NIBS equip­ments includ­ing rTMS and tDCS, as Class III devices, the cat­e­go­ry of high­est risk, sim­i­lar to inva­sive treatments,…

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Ballroom dancing can reduce aging-related brain atrophy in the hippocampus (and, more than treadmill walking!)

Jan­u­ary 11, 2023  |

Social ball­room danc­ing can improve cog­ni­tive func­tions and reduce brain atro­phy in old­er adults who are at increased risk for Alzheimer’s dis­ease and oth­er forms of demen­tia. That’s the key find­ing of my team’s recent­ly pub­lished study in the Jour­nal of Aging and Phys­i­cal Activ­i­ty. In our study, we enrolled 25 adults over 65 years…

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Voice biomarker platform Sonde Health raises $19.25M to spread access to mental health monitoring and beyond

Jan­u­ary 5, 2023  | Com­ments Off on Voice bio­mark­er plat­form Sonde Health rais­es $19.25M to spread access to men­tal health mon­i­tor­ing and beyond

Voice analy­sis plat­form Sonde Health rais­es $19.25M (Mobi­Health­News): AI-enabled voice tech­nol­o­gy plat­form Sonde Health announced it raised $19.25 mil­lion in a Series B fund­ing round led by Part­ners Invest­ment, bring­ing its total raise to $35.25 mil­lion … Sonde Health uses patent­ed voice tech­nol­o­gy to detect var­i­ous health con­di­tions from bio­mark­ers in a per­son­’s voice, including…

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