Update: Should candidates to high office should pass a cognitive/ mental fitness test?

By SharpBrains | July 24, 2020

Wow, that was a cou­ple of very insight­ful dis­cus­sions, via social media no less. #1. The first one was about whether heads of state and can­di­dates to high office should pass a cognitive/ men­tal fit­ness test. Click HERE to read and dis­cuss some of the sharpest com­ments, such as… “I won­der what brought this up.” “Def­i­nite­ly. We rou­tine­ly screen…

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Repetitive negative thinking may increase (or perhaps be caused by) cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s pathology

By The Conversation | June 16, 2020

Demen­tia: neg­a­tive think­ing linked with more rapid cog­ni­tive decline, study indi­cates Demen­tia affects an esti­mat­ed 54 mil­lion peo­ple world­wide. There no cure, but reports indi­cate that approx­i­mate­ly a third of demen­tia cas­es may be pre­ventable, which is why many researchers have begun to focus on iden­ti­fy­ing risk fac­tors. This would allow for bet­ter per­son­alised interventions…

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Report: 10 million people develop dementia every year

By SharpBrains | August 28, 2015

World Alzheimer Report 2015: Revised Esti­mates Hint at Larg­er Epi­dem­ic (Alz­fo­rum): “Alzheimer’s Dis­ease Inter­na­tion­al yes­ter­day released its World Alzheimer Report 2015: The Glob­al Impact of Demen­tia. This sev­enth annu­al report from the fed­er­a­tion of Alzheimer asso­ci­a­tions updates 2009 esti­mates of 

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Update: Test your stress level with this fun brain teaser

By SharpBrains | July 31, 2014

— Time for Sharp­Brains’ July 2014 e‑newsletter, fea­tur­ing a wealth of thought-pro­­vok­ing insights, sci­ence reports…and this fun brain teas­er to deter­mine your stress lev­el. New think­ing: Why “dis­or­ders of the brain” deserve at least equal atten­tion as car­dio­vas­cu­lar dis­eases and can­cer Pre­lim­i­nary Agen­da of the 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Octo­ber 28–30th) Debunk­ing Myers-Brig­gs per­son­al­i­ty test How to remember…

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Why Both Aerobic and Cognitive Exercise Promote Brain Health

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 2, 2012

USC Davis researcher Liz Zelin­s­ki just brought to our atten­tion a very insight­ful meta-ana­ly­­sis  (sys­tem­at­ic analy­sis of pre­vi­ous sci­en­tif­ic stud­ies) titled Extend­ed prac­tice and aer­o­bic exer­cise inter­ven­tions ben­e­fit untrained cog­ni­tive out­comes in old­er adults: a meta-ana­ly­­sis. OBJECTIVES:  To exam­ine whether ther­a­peu­tic interventions 

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