Study: Enhancing brain functioning, and preventing cognitive decline, via diet, exercise and cognitive training

By SharpBrains | March 13, 2015

  Healthy eat­ing, exer­cise, and brain-train­ing pro­gram results in slow­er men­tal decline for old­er peo­ple (Sci­ence Dai­ly): “A com­pre­hen­sive pro­gram pro­vid­ing old­er peo­ple at risk of demen­tia with healthy eat­ing guid­ance, exer­cise, brain train­ing, and man­age­ment of meta­bol­ic and vas­cu­lar risk fac­tors appears to slow down cog­ni­tive decline, accord­ing to the first ever ran­domised con­trolled trial…

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On brain development, socioeconomic status and parenting styles

By SharpBrains | May 2, 2014

Rich Man, Poor Man: Socioe­co­nom­ic Adver­si­ty and Brain Devel­op­ment (Cere­brum): “..While ear­ly expo­sure to addi­tion­al lan­guages or music may lead to ben­e­fi­cial changes in brain devel­op­ment, ear­ly adver­si­ty can like­wise have impor­tant but detri­men­tal effects on the brain. For example, 

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Great review of The SharpBrains Guide at Scientific American’s Beautiful Minds

By SharpBrains | May 28, 2013

Review of The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness (Sci­en­tif­ic Amer­i­can’s Beau­ti­ful Minds blog): “In the high­ly sal­able field of “brain fit­ness,” there is an awful lot of hype. How can con­sumers pos­si­bly sort the sci­ence from the pseu­­do-sci­ence? Thank­ful­ly, there are resources such as The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness…this guide helps the every­day read­er come…

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Upcoming Webinar: The Digital Brain Health Market 2012–2020

By SharpBrains | February 21, 2013

Just a quick note: next Wednes­day, Feb­ru­ary 27th, we’ll host the sec­ond and last webi­nar  to dis­cuss key mar­ket and com­pet­i­tive analy­ses based on “The Dig­i­tal Brain Health Mar­ket 2012–2020: Web-based, mobile and bio­met­rics-based tech­nol­ogy to assess, mon­i­tor and enhance cog­ni­tion and brain func­tion­ing”, our new mar­ket report.

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Webinar: The Digital Brain Health Market 2012–2020

By SharpBrains | February 4, 2013

Just a quick note: we’ll host a webi­nar this Wednes­day, Feb­ru­ary 6th, to dis­cuss key analy­ses and fore­casts based on “The Dig­i­tal Brain Health Mar­ket 2012–2020: Web-based, mobile and bio­met­rics-based tech­nol­ogy to assess, mon­i­tor and enhance cog­ni­tion and brain func­tion­ing”, our new mar­ket report.

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