Update: Alzheimer’s Disease population to triple — unless we prevent or delay it

By SharpBrains | February 27, 2013

Time for Sharp­Brains’ Feb­ru­ary 2013 eNewslet­ter, fea­tur­ing this time new sci­ence and analy­sis on Alzheimer’s Dis­ease, ADHD, men­tal well-being, brain health, and more. Enjoy! New sci­ence: Alzheimer’s Dis­ease pop­u­la­tion to triple: We need smarter research, pub­lic health ini­tia­tives and lifestyles, by Pas­cale Mich­e­lon, PhD Nation­al Sci­ence Foun­da­tion report: Can inter­ac­tive media boost atten­tion and well-being? Study: Mind­ful­ness training…

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Mindfulness training for children with ADHD and their parents

By Dr. David Rabiner | February 21, 2013

Mind­ful­ness train­ing is an approach for enhanc­ing men­tal health and alle­vi­at­ing men­tal health dif­fi­cul­ties that is based on east­ern med­i­ta­tion tech­niques. The focus of mind­ful­ness train­ing is to increase one’s aware­ness of the present moment, enhance the non-judg­­men­­tal obser­va­tion of one’s sur­round­ings, and decrease impul­sive and 

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National Science Foundation report: Can interactive media boost attention and well-being?

By SharpBrains | February 20, 2013

“Behav­ioral train­ing inter­ven­tions have received much inter­est as poten­tial­ly effi­cient and cost-effec­­tive ways to main­tain brain fit­ness or enhance skilled per­for­mance with impact rang­ing from health and fit­ness to edu­ca­tion and job train­ing. In par­tic­u­lar, neu­ro­science research has doc­u­ment­ed the impor­tance of explic­it­ly train­ing (i) atten­tion­al con­trol, in order to enhance per­cep­tu­al and cog­ni­tive fitness…

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Why, to improve memory, we need to think of the brain as a system

By SharpBrains | January 24, 2013

(Edi­tor’s Note: every month we host an online Q&A with par­tic­i­pants in the e‑course How To Be Your Own Brain Fit­ness Coach. This is the light­ly edit­ed and anonymized tran­script from the Jan­u­ary Q&A ses­sion; the Feb­ru­ary Q&A will take place on Tues­day, Feb­ru­ary 12th) 2:02 OK, ready to go! Hap­py 2013 again. You can start…

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Increasing cognitive loads on miners’ brains: good example of where society is heading

By SharpBrains | September 26, 2012

NIOSH to Study Cog­ni­tive Loads on Under­ground Coal Min­ers (Occu­pa­tion­al Health & Safe­ty): “NIOSH has pub­lished a notice out­lin­ing an inter­est­ing study it plans to under­take to under­stand the cog­ni­tive demands placed on under­ground coal min­ers by new safe­ty devices they must car­ry, with the indus­try increas­ing­ly deploy­ing wire­less com­mu­ni­ca­tion sys­tems, per­son­al dust mon­i­tors, and prox­im­i­ty detectors……

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Training Attention and Memory after Bypass Surgery

By SharpBrains | September 18, 2012

“Brain Train­ing” May Lessen Cog­ni­tive Impair­ments Asso­ci­at­ed with Coro­nary Bypass Surgery (press release): “This study demon­strat­ed that patients suf­fer­ing from cog­ni­tive deficits after coro­nary bypass surgery could great­ly ben­e­fit from cog­ni­tive train­ing that tar­gets both atten­tion and memory—the cog­ni­tive func­tions most affect­ed after this type of operation…What’s more, ben­e­fits from the train­ing are main­tained over time…the…

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