BRAIN Initiative: New call to action amidst growing skepticism

By SharpBrains | February 25, 2014

A White House Call To Action to Advance the BRAIN Ini­tia­tive (press release): “Under this ini­tia­tive, Fed­er­al agen­cies such as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Nation­al Insti­tutes of Health (NIH), the Nation­al Sci­ence Foun­da­tion (NSF), and the Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion (FDA) are sup­port­ing the devel­op­ment and appli­ca­tion of inno­v­a­tive, new tech­nolo­gies that…

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Study: Aerobic exercise improves memory, brain function

By SharpBrains | November 13, 2013

Study Finds Aer­o­bic Exer­cise Improves Mem­o­ry, Brain Func­tion and Phys­i­cal Fit­ness (press release): “A new study con­duct­ed by researchers at the Cen­ter for Brain­Health at The Uni­ver­si­ty of Texas at Dal­las pub­lished online in the open-access jour­nal Fron­tiers in Aging Neu­ro­science found that engag­ing in a phys­i­cal exer­cise reg­i­men helps healthy aging adults improve their…

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Do you believe these neuromyths? Do we only use 10% of our brain?

By SharpBrains | November 16, 2012

Cour­tesy of the recent study Neu­romyths in edu­ca­tion: Preva­lence and pre­dic­tors of mis­con­cep­tions among teach­ers, by Sanne Dekker et al, here you have 32 brain-relat­ed state­ments. Are they cor­rect or incor­rect? We use our brains 24 h a day (C ). Chil­dren must acquire their native lan­guage before a sec­ond lan­guage is learned. If they do…

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Measuring and treating Chemo Brain

By SharpBrains | October 3, 2012

‘Chemo Brain’ After Breast Can­cer Backed by Study (US News): “Breast can­cer patients treat­ed with chemother­a­py are at risk for mild men­tal deficits known col­lec­tive­ly as “chemo brain,” a new study finds. Researchers at the Mof­fitt Can­cer Cen­ter in Tam­pa, Fla., reviewed exist­ing research on brain func­tion (“cog­ni­tive” func­tion­ing) in

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News: 2012 Summit Recordings are Available/ What Participants Say

By SharpBrains | June 26, 2012

The 2012 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit: Opti­miz­ing Health through Neu­ro­plas­tic­ity, Inno­va­tion and Data, held June 7–14th, con­cluded with a call to enhance brain health by har­ness­ing neu­ro­­plas­tic­i­­ty-based appli­ca­tions, big data plat­forms and con­sumer inter­est to aug­ment the tra­di­tional reliance on dis­­ease-based phar­ma­co­log­i­cal inter­ven­tions and frag­mented clin­i­cal tri­als. All ses­sions held dur­ing the 2012 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Summit…

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What Participants Say about the 2012 SharpBrains Virtual Summit

By Alvaro Fernandez | June 26, 2012

Once the 2012 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (June 7–14th, 2012) was over, we sent all par­tic­i­pants an anony­mous online sur­vey ask­ing for feed­back; we also request­ed brief quotes to help con­vey the val­ue of the Sum­mit. The chart to the left show­cas­es the high lev­els of sat­is­fac­tion with the Sum­mit Over­all. And below you can read…

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