Next: Brain modelling platforms, such as Baycrest’s Virtual Brain, to accelerate brain health innovation

By SharpBrains | February 17, 2016

A Vir­tu­al Brain – The Ben­e­fits of Brain Mod­el­ling (Brain Blog­ger): “Brain Blog­ger recent­ly dis­cov­ered that sci­en­tists are poised to deliv­er the first vir­tu­al sim­u­la­tion of the human brain from a tru­ly fas­ci­nat­ing talk by Dr. Randy McIn­tosh, Vicepres­i­dent of Research and Direc­tor of Baycrest’s Rot­man Research Insti­tute, pre­sent­ed at 

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New WHO Report: Global dementia cases expected to exceed 115 million by 2050

By SharpBrains | April 13, 2012

Descrip­tion: “The report “Demen­tia: a pub­lic health pri­or­i­ty” has been joint­ly devel­oped by WHO and Alzheimer’s Dis­ease Inter­na­tion­al. The pur­pose of this report is to raise aware­ness of demen­tia as a pub­lic health pri­or­i­ty, to artic­u­late a pub­lic health approach and to advo­cate for action at inter­na­tion­al and nation­al lev­els. Demen­tia is a syn­drome that…

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Training Young Brains to Behave

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 23, 2008 |

Great arti­cle in the New York Times titled Train­ing Young Brains to Behave. A cou­ple of quotes: — “But just as biol­o­gy shapes behav­ior, so behav­ior can accel­er­ate biol­o­gy. And a small group of edu­ca­tion­al and cog­ni­tive sci­en­tists now say that men­tal exer­cis­es of a cer­tain kind can teach chil­dren to become more self-pos­sessed at…

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