Posts Tagged ‘Brain-Imaging’
Lifestyle Matters: Let’s optimize cognition, health and life in 2024
Welcome to a new edition of SharpBrains e‑newsletter, featuring fascinating research findings on lifestyle, protective brain structures, Internet access, mental health, brain imaging, and more. #1. Lifestyle matters: What we can do in 2024 to optimize cognition and life, delaying cognitive problems even dementia “Actor Chris Hemsworth…watched his grandfather live with Alzheimer’s and is making lifestyle…
Read MoreFDA-approved, Cybin-sponsored clinicial trial to measure ketamine’s impact on the brain via Kernel Flow neuroimaging helmet
Kernel’s Brain-Imaging Helmet Approved For Clinical Trial On Patients Using Ketamine (Forbes): The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a clinical trial using a neuroimaging helmet made by Los Angeles-based Kernel to track what happens in the brain when a human takes a psychedelic dose of ketamine.
Read MoreFlexibility is good except when it isn’t: Study finds how scientists can reach different conclusions analyzing the same brain scans
Neuroimaging: Many Analysts, Differing Results (Dana Foundation): For decades, both the research and medical communities have relied on neuroimaging tools like functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to give them a window into the living human brain. Such scans have provided unprecedented insights into the brain’s structure and function – and the field, as a whole,…
Read MoreJobs with low physical stress and good working conditions linked to larger hippocampus and better memory
CSU study links physical stress on the job with brain and memory decline in older age (press release): A new study out of Colorado State University has found that physical stress in one’s job may be associated with faster brain aging and poorer memory. Aga Burzynska, an assistant professor in the Department of Human Development…
Read MoreUpdate: Moderate lifetime drinking may lead to lower Alzheimer-related beta amyloid deposits in the brain
__ Time for a new edition of SharpBrains’ e‑newsletter. #1. First of all, it’s not all bad news this month. Study finds that moderate lifetime drinking may lead to lower Alzheimer-related beta amyloid deposits in the brain #2. And, talk about personalized medicine! This fascinating study showing how brain imaging (fMRI) + machine learning + intensive, non-invasive…
Read MoreOn Mental Health and the advent of Digital Phenotyping
___ Building the Thermometer for Mental Health (The Dana Foundation): “Imagine that you visit your physician complaining of a fever and, rather than taking out a thermometer, they begin hovering their “educated hands” over you. Gradually, they press down against your arm to gain a full impression of your skin’s temperature and the “deeper seated…
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