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Webinar on Tuesday, June 16th: Harnessing neuroplasticity to transform brain rehabilitation

June 15, 2020 by SharpBrains

Quick heads-up on an oppor­tu­ni­ty for clin­i­cians to learn about an inno­v­a­tive pro­gram trans­form­ing brain injury rehab up in Canada.

When: Tue, June 16, 2020. 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT [Read more…] about Webi­nar on Tues­day, June 16th: Har­ness­ing neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty to trans­form brain rehabilitation

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: ABI Wellness, brain rehabilitation, Brain Trust Canada, brain-injury, neuroplasticity, treatment

Study combines MRI brain scans with statistics to better predict cognitive problems after stroke

April 23, 2018 by SharpBrains

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New ‘brain health index’ can pre­dict how well patients will do after stroke (Sci­enceDai­ly):

“A new com­put­er pro­gramme devel­oped by sci­en­tists at the Uni­ver­si­ties of Edin­burgh and Glas­gow can assess whole brain dete­ri­o­ra­tion and help pre­dict cog­ni­tive func­tion after stroke up to ten times more accu­rate­ly than cur­rent methods.

The new approach, pub­lished today in the Inter­na­tion­al Jour­nal of Stroke, can quan­ti­fy vis­i­ble brain injury from cere­bral small ves­sel dis­ease (SVD) and brain atro­phy by [Read more…] about Study com­bines MRI brain scans with sta­tis­tics to bet­ter pre­dict cog­ni­tive prob­lems after stroke

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: atrophy, brain health index, Brain-health, brain-injury, cerebral small vessel diseases, cognition, computer-assisted, image processing, index, magnetic resonance imaging, stroke

Study: Brain stimulation can work–if properly timed

April 21, 2017 by SharpBrains

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Elec­tri­cal Stim­u­la­tion To Boost Mem­o­ry: Maybe It’s All In The Tim­ing (NPR):

“Peo­ple with a brain injury or demen­tia often strug­gle to remem­ber sim­ple things, like names or places. In research pub­lished Thurs­day in the jour­nal Cur­rent Biol­o­gy, sci­en­tists have shown it may be pos­si­ble to improve this sort of mem­o­ry using tiny puls­es of elec­tric­i­ty — if they’re prop­er­ly timed [Read more…] about Study: Brain stim­u­la­tion can work–if prop­er­ly timed

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: boost memory, brain-injury, brain-stimulation, dementia, electrical stimulation, electrodes, improve memory performance, neu­rotech­nolo­gies

Survey of key scientific, technological and investment trends revolutionizing Brain Health in our Digital Age

January 23, 2017 by Apoorv Mathur

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Last year I got very inter­est­ed in the func­tion­ing of the human brain and the sci­ence behind mind­ful­ness and learn­ing [1], so was quite excit­ed  to attend the Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit [2] in Decem­ber, indulging in the lat­est trends in applied neu­ro­science and dig­i­tal innovation.

The Sum­mit focused on the theme of rein­vent­ing brain health in the dig­i­tal age, and brought togeth­er lead­ing researchers, entre­pre­neurs, financiers and pol­i­cy­mak­ers pas­sion­ate with the mis­sion of mov­ing neu­ro­science and cog­ni­tive research from sci­ence labs towards appli­ca­tions in Health, Well­ness and Edu­ca­tion. Here’s a sum­ma­ry of the many things I dis­cov­ered. [Read more…] about Sur­vey of key sci­en­tif­ic, tech­no­log­i­cal and invest­ment trends rev­o­lu­tion­iz­ing Brain Health in our Dig­i­tal Age

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: addiction, adhd, aging, Akili Interactive Labs, anxiety, Applied Neuroscience, autism. Autism Spectrum disorder, Baycrest, Behavior Imaging Solutions, Big-Pharma, blood-flow, Brain-health, brain-injury, Bridge Builders Collaborative, CC-ABHI, Claritas, Cogito, Cogniciti, cognitive, cognitive disabilities, cognitive therapeutics, cognitive-decline, Cognitive-functions, Cognitive-impairment, concussions, dementia, depression, digital, digital age, digital brain health, digital health, digital innovation, eMindful, entrepreneurs, FDA-approved, Fourth Industrial Revolution, frontal-lobes, gamification, Happify, Headspace, human-brain, Interaxon, investors, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Jazz Ventures, Johnson & Johnson, Learning, lifespan, McKesson, Mental-Health, Merck, Merck Ventures, mind training, mindfulness, MindMaze, NIMH, OCD, Pear Therapeutics, PTSD, SBIR, sharpbrains, Stress, STTR, substance-abuse, UT-Dallas, virtual-reality, World-Economic-Forum, Xhale

The FDA clears two computerized cognitive tests to assist in medical evaluations following brain injury or concussion

August 26, 2016 by SharpBrains

impact testingFDA allows mar­ket­ing of first-of-kind com­put­er­ized cog­ni­tive tests to help assess cog­ni­tive skills after a head injury (FDA news release):

“The U.S. Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion today per­mit­ted mar­ket­ing of two new devices to assess a patient’s cog­ni­tive func­tion imme­di­ate­ly after a sus­pect­ed brain injury or con­cus­sion. The Imme­di­ate Post-Con­cus­sion Assess­ment and Cog­ni­tive Test­ing (ImPACT) and ImPACT Pedi­atric are the first med­ical devices per­mit­ted [Read more…] about The FDA clears two com­put­er­ized cog­ni­tive tests to assist in med­ical eval­u­a­tions fol­low­ing brain injury or concussion

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: assess cognitive function, Brain-health, brain-injury, cognitive-function, Cognitive-tests, computerized, computerized cognitive test, concussion, digital health, digital medicine, FDA, Impact, ImPACT Pediatric, medical evaluation, neurodiagnostic, traumatic-brain-injuries

New NFL concussion scandal: Is this the end of American football as a popular youth sport?

March 24, 2016 by SharpBrains

football_concussionsIn NFL, Deeply Flawed Con­cus­sion Research and Ties to Big Tobac­co (The New York Times):

“Now, an inves­ti­ga­tion by The New York Times has found that the N.F.L.‘s con­cus­sion research was far more flawed than pre­vi­ous­ly known [Read more…] about New NFL con­cus­sion scan­dal: Is this the end of Amer­i­can foot­ball as a pop­u­lar youth sport?

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: brain-injury, concussion, concussions, NFL

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