Update: Survey of scientific, technological & market trends revolutionizing Brain Health in our Digital Age

—– Time for a new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains’ e‑newsletter explor­ing the lat­est dig­i­tal brain health tech­nolo­gies, neu­ro­science find­ings and insights for  life­long brain health and men­tal health. New tools: Sur­vey of key sci­en­tif­ic, tech­no­log­i­cal and invest­ment trends rev­o­lu­tion­iz­ing Brain Health in our Dig­i­tal Age Is Your iPhone Real­ly Fry­ing Your Brain? Five Things You Need To Know The Canadian…

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Study: Brain scans mapping language and memory areas can help guide epilepsy-related surgeries

Can brain scans help doc­tors nav­i­gate epilep­sy surgery? (UPI) “…When med­ica­tion does­n’t effec­tive­ly con­trol epilep­sy, surgery may be rec­om­mend­ed. Doc­tors can remove the part of the brain that trig­gers seizures or use cer­tain pro­ce­dures to con­trol seizure activ­i­ty. Before surgery, how­ev­er, the brain must be “mapped” to ensure the regions respon­si­ble for lan­guage and memory…

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Update: New tools, research and insights to reinvent Brain Health and Mental Health in the Digital Age

———- Time for a new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains’ e‑newsletter, explor­ing a range of tech­nolo­gies, sci­en­tif­ic find­ings and insights for brain health and men­tal health to bet­ter respond to the oppor­tu­ni­ties and chal­lenges ahead. Hap­py read­ing, and Hap­py Thanks­giv­ing! New tools: Brain Health in the Dig­i­tal Age (opens 24-slide pre­sen­ta­tion) Har­ness­ing brain scans to per­son­al­ize autism-relat­ed behav­ioral inter­ven­tions UNICEF…

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Is Mental Health ready to start transitioning towards measurable brain circuits, away from subjective symptoms?

To Diag­nose Men­tal Ill­ness, Read the Brain (Sci­en­tif­ic Amer­i­can): Although sci­en­tists have learned a lot about the brain in the last few decades, approach­es to treat­ing men­tal ill­ness­es have not kept up. As neu­ro­sci­en­tists learn more about brain cir­cuits, Stan­ford psy­chi­a­trist Amit Etkin fore­sees a time when diag­noses will be based on brain scans rather…

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