By: SharpBrains
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Getting kids outside and active could help with brain health: Participaction report (The Globe and Mail):
“The physical benefits of kids leading an active lifestyle, including better heart health and a decreased risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, are well known. But a growing body of research suggests there are significant mental benefits as well, whether it’s lowering stress levels or helping to treat anxiety and depression. A new report released by Participaction on Tuesday draws attention to this link, Read the rest of this entry »
By: SharpBrains

Credit: University of Nottingham
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This Brain Scanner Is Way Smaller Than fMRI but Somehow 1,000% Creepier (Gizmodo):
“It may look like something befitting Halloween’s Michael Myers, but the device pictured above is actually a breakthrough in neuroscience—a portable, wearable brain scanner that can monitor neural activity while a person is moving Read the rest of this entry »
By: SharpBrains
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From app store to drug store, digital health is redefining pharma’s pipeline (STAT):
“The pitches always sounded promising: A new software app could track glucose levels for people with diabetes or soothe the brains of insomniacs. Most pharma executives would politely smile and nod, but then park their money somewhere else.
Not anymore. Read the rest of this entry »
By: Dr. Lew Lim
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As is increasingly evident, there are multiple methods aimed at enhancing brain function.
Brain training and mindfulness practices are commonly used. Substance-based methods are popular too, including hallucinogens in the form of plant extracts, and drugs. Same as transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS): All of these are promising but have been challenged — for example, the reproducibility of electrical-based stimulation results is increasingly questioned. Read the rest of this entry »
By: SharpBrains

Researchers use brain imaging and machine learning to predict which high-risk infants will develop autism. Credit: Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities.
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A Single Brain Scan Has Been Used to Accurately Predict Autism at Just 6 Months Old (Science alert)
“Researchers have used brain scans and artificial intelligence to spot differences in how key areas of infant brains synchronise, allowing them to accurately predict which babies would develop autism spectrum disorder (ASD) as a toddler…The research, led by scientists from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Washington University, comes hot on the heels of an earlier study that used two scans taken at 6 and 12 months to make a similar prediction.
Not only has this new method reduced the number of scans required to make the Read the rest of this entry »