From Drugs to Brain Training: The Future of Brain Health?

By SharpBrains | March 17, 2014

Brain Train­ing And The End Of The Prozac Gen­er­a­tion (Forbes): “Accord­ing to the Nation­al Insti­tute for Men­tal Health (NIMH), more than 57 mil­lion peo­ple, or 26% of the U.S. pop­u­la­tion suf­fer from some form of men­tal health prob­lem. But despite the ongo­ing need, 

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Finalists announced for global neurotechnology prize

By SharpBrains | June 4, 2013

Final­ists Announced for Israel Brain Tech­nolo­gies’ Mil­lion Dol­lar Glob­al B.R.A.I.N. Prize (press release): “Israel Brain Tech­nolo­gies (IBT) has announced the ten final­ists for its $1 mil­lion Glob­al B.R.A.I.N. (Break­through Research And Inno­va­tion in Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy) Prize 

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Update: Let’s debunk 32 neuromyths…do we only use 10% of our brain?

By SharpBrains | November 29, 2012

Time for Sharp­Brains’ Novem­ber 2012 eNewslet­ter, fea­tur­ing lat­est sci­ence, tools and think­ing to upgrade brain health. Before we start, do you believe these 32 neu­romyths? Do we only use 10% of our brain? New Sci­ence: Fast cycling can help Parkinson’s Dis­ease patients strength­en brain con­nec­tiv­i­ty for motor abil­i­ty There’s no sin­gle sil­ver bul­let to treat depres­sion (not even…

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Study: Emerging brain computer interface can monitor and train attention in unmedicated ADHD children

By SharpBrains | November 15, 2012

Train­ing pro­gram improved inat­ten­tive symp­toms in chil­dren with ADHD (Healio Pedi­atrics): “An 8‑week inter­ven­tion with a brain-com­put­er inter­­face-based atten­tion train­ing pro­gram sig­nif­i­cant­ly improved inat­ten­tive symp­toms asso­ci­at­ed with atten­­tion-deficit/hy­per­ac­­tiv­i­­ty dis­or­der in chil­dren aged 6 to 12 years, accord­ing to recent study results

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SharpBrains Council Monthly Insights: How will we assess, enhance and repair cognition across the lifespan?

By SharpBrains | November 18, 2010

When you think of how the PC has altered the fab­ric of soci­ety, per­mit­ting instant access to infor­ma­tion and automat­ing process­es beyond our wildest dreams, it is instruc­tive to con­sid­er that much of this progress was dri­ven by Moore’s law. Halv­ing the size of semi­con­duc­tor every 18 months catal­ysed an expo­nen­tial accel­er­a­tion in per­for­mance. Why…

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