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20 Must-Know Facts to Harness Neuroplasticity and Improve Brain Health

June 20, 2016 by Alvaro Fernandez

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June is Alzheimer’s & Brain Aware­ness Month, so let me share these 20 Must-Know Facts to Har­ness Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty & Improve Brain Health that come from the hun­dreds of sci­en­tif­ic and med­ical stud­ies we ana­lyzed  [Read more…] about 20 Must-Know Facts to Har­ness Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty and Improve Brain Health

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: Alzheimers, biofeedback, brain-awareness, Brain-Fitness, Brain-health, brain-supplements, Brain-Training, chronic-stress, cognitive-decline, meditation, mental-exercise, Neurogenesis, neuroplasticity, Physical-Exercise

Dr. Michael Merzenich: To harness Neuroplasticity for cognitive enhancement, we need to think “Fitness” more than “Games”

June 7, 2016 by SharpBrains

KavliPrize-Neuro(Edi­tor’s Note: In order to help read­ers famil­iar­ize them­selves with the work and think­ing of Dr. Michael Merzenich, one of the win­ners of the 2016 Kavli Prize in Neu­ro­science for ground­break­ing work on neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty, we are con­dens­ing and repub­lish­ing the com­pre­hen­sive con­ver­sa­tion that Dr. Merzenich and Alvaro Fer­nan­dez had in 2009, in prepa­ra­tion for the inau­gur­al Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit.)

Dr. Michael Merzenich, Emer­i­tus Pro­fes­sor at UCSF, is a lead­ing pio­neer in brain plas­tic­i­ty research. In the late 1980s, Dr. Merzenich was on the team that invent­ed the cochlear implant. In 1996, he was the found­ing CEO of Sci­en­tif­ic Learn­ing Cor­po­ra­tion, and in 2004 became co-founder and [Read more…] about Dr. Michael Merzenich: To har­ness Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty for cog­ni­tive enhance­ment, we need to think “Fit­ness” more than “Games”

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: AAA, adults, Allstate, Alzheimers, brain-assessments, Brain-Fitness, Brain-games, Brain-health, brain-trainers, Brain-Training, FDA, home health, Mental-Health, Michael-Merzenich, myelination, neurocognitive, neurodegenerative, neurological, neuroplasticity, neuropsych assessments, Posit-Science, psychiatric, schizophrenia, Scientific-Learning, technology, telemedicine, therapy, UCSF

Study: High television viewing and low physical activity can significantly worsen long-term cognitive function

July 28, 2015 by SharpBrains

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Too much TV, low phys­i­cal activ­i­ty may wors­en cog­ni­tive func­tion (Med­ical News Today):

“The team’s study includ­ed more than 3,200 adults aged 18–30…Over 25 years, the researchers record­ed par­tic­i­pants’ tele­vi­sion view­ing time and phys­i­cal activ­i­ty levels…In the study, high tele­vi­sion view­ing was defined as more than 4 hours dai­ly, while low phys­i­cal activ­i­ty was defined as [Read more…] about Study: High tele­vi­sion view­ing and low phys­i­cal activ­i­ty can sig­nif­i­cant­ly wors­en long-term cog­ni­tive function

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: Alzheimers, cognitive-function, dementia, executive-function, memory, Physical-activity, processing-speed, television, television viewing

McLean Hospital Corp: #16 Holder of Pervasive Neurotech Intellectual Property*

July 6, 2015 by SharpBrains

McLean Hospital CorpMcLean Hos­pi­tal is the third old­est psy­chi­atric hos­pi­tal in the Unit­ed States and is affil­i­at­ed with Har­vard Med­ical School. McLean’s research efforts in neu­ro­science and psy­chi­a­try span 66 lab­o­ra­to­ries and near­ly 400 research staff — it claims to have the largest research pro­gram of any pri­vate psy­chi­atric hos­pi­tal. [Read more…] about McLean Hos­pi­tal Corp: #16 Hold­er of Per­va­sive Neu­rotech Intel­lec­tu­al Property*

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Filed Under: Technology & Innovation Tagged With: adhd, Alzheimers, dementia, Magnetic field stimulation, mental-illness, neuromodulation, neurotech, noninvasive neurotechnology, patents, pervasive

Neurotech initiatives in Switzerland aim at leapfrogging brain health care

June 2, 2015 by SharpBrains

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Trick­ing the brain into re-wiring itself (Swiss news):

“Swiss neu­ro­science start-ups and labs are find­ing nov­el hi-tech solu­tions to help patients despite a depress­ing glob­al lack of treat­ments for brain dis­or­ders [Read more…] about Neu­rotech ini­tia­tives in Switzer­land aim at leapfrog­ging brain health care

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Alzheimers, brain, brain disorders, Campus Biotech, EPFL, Geneva, MindMaze, neuroscience, Preventing-Alzheimer's, Switzerland

Can better cognitive testing platforms accelerate pharma’s Alzheimer’s research and development efforts?

May 4, 2015 by SharpBrains

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Alzheimer’s cure behind the boom in brain sci­ence (Finan­cial Review):

“Bio­gen is one of many mem­bers of big phar­ma seek­ing the block­buster drug which will inevitably be worth mul­ti­ple bil­lions of dol­lars. Big phar­ma in the US spends about $US5 bil­lion a year on Alzheimer’s research and development.

Expo­nen­tial growth in the dis­ease over the past decade has not been accom­pa­nied by the devel­op­ment of approved drugs. In fact, [Read more…] about Can bet­ter cog­ni­tive test­ing plat­forms accel­er­ate pharma’s Alzheimer’s research and devel­op­ment efforts?

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Alzheimers, Big-Pharma, Biogen, clinical-trials, cognitive test, Cognitive-impairment, CogState

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