Announcement: New online course to Navigate Conventional and Complementary ADHD Treatments for Healthy Brain Development

By SharpBrains | January 13, 2015

. Dear col­leagues and friends, ?We are pleased to announce an excit­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion between Sharp­Brains and the Atten­tion Research Update to offer a new online course in May 2015, designed to equip par­tic­i­pants with the under­stand­ing and infor­ma­tion required to nav­i­gate and pri­or­i­tize ADHD treatments–both con­ven­tion­al and complementary–to max­i­mize healthy brain devel­op­ment for chil­dren with ADHD.…

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Why Managing Stress is Crucial for Brain Fitness

By SharpBrains | August 13, 2012

How stress and depres­sion can shrink the brain (Yale News): “Major depres­sion or chron­ic stress can cause the loss of brain vol­ume, a con­di­tion that con­tributes to both emo­tion­al and cog­ni­tive impair­ment. Now a team of researchers led by Yale sci­en­tists has dis­cov­ered one rea­son why this occurs — a sin­gle genet­ic switch that trig­gers loss…

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Therapy vs. Medication, Conflicts of Interest, and Intimidation

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 24, 2009 |

What start­ed as an aca­d­e­m­ic dis­pute regard­ing dis­clo­sure of con­flict of inter­est is now snow­balling into the main­stream media, due to the over-reac­­tion by JAMA edi­tors as report­ed in this Wall Street Jour­nal blog post, JAMA edi­tor calls Crit­ic a “Nobody and a Noth­ing” In sum­ma­ry, Dr. Jonathan Leo, the “Crit­ic”, dared to draw attention…

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