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

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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Brain scans show lower accumulation of tau and amyloid pathology among cognitive “super-agers”

Super-Agers Show Resis­tance to Tau and Amy­loid Accu­mu­la­tion, Main­tain High Cog­ni­tive Func­tion (Soci­ety of Nuclear Med­i­cine and Mol­e­c­u­lar Imag­ing press release): Super-agers, or indi­vid­u­als whose cog­ni­tive skills are above the norm even at an advanced age, have been found to have increased resis­tance to tau and amy­loid pro­teins, accord­ing to research pre­sent­ed at the Society…

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Update: A brain-friendly lifestyle is the best approach to delay cognitive decline and dementia

_____ Time to wrap-up anoth­er stim­u­lat­ing month with Sharp­Brains’ e‑newsletter, fea­tur­ing this time a range of promis­ing news for every­one with a (human) brain :-) New tech for brain health: Neu­ro­engi­neer­ing meets neu­roethics to address treat­­ment-resis­­tant depres­sion Study: Hear­ing aids may help old­er adults delay demen­tia, depres­sion, anx­i­ety, and falls Four guide­lines for smart use of smartphones…

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Rethinking Alzheimer’s research, beyond amyloid deposition, via new funding models

How a new approach to fund­ing Alzheimer’s research could pay off (MIT News): “More than 5 mil­lion Amer­i­cans suf­fer from Alzheimer’s dis­ease, the afflic­tion that erodes mem­o­ry and oth­er men­tal capac­i­ties, but no drugs tar­get­ing the dis­ease have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion since 2003…Lo and three co-authors propose 

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Questioning brain health status quo in depression and Alzheimer’s

Two good recent pieces in The New York Times bring to the fore­front the need to ques­tion sta­tus quo mind­set and prac­tices about how to mea­sure and enhance brain health. Sleep Ther­a­py Seen as an Aid for Depres­sion “Cur­ing insom­nia in peo­ple with depres­sion could dou­ble their chance of a full recov­ery, sci­en­tists are reporting.…

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