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The ultimate in transfer from brain training to real-world outcomes: Reducing the risk of at-fault accidents by almost 50%

March 14, 2018 by SharpBrains

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Can you train your brain to dri­ve longer into your gold­en years? (CTV News):

“For the elder­ly, the loss of a driver’s licence could mean the end of inde­pen­dence and the begin­ning of a decline in health, with far-reach­ing con­se­quences in their dai­ly lives…New assis­tive dri­ving tech­nolo­gies seem like an obvi­ous solu­tion in the years to come, but buy­ing new vehi­cles can be too expen­sive; while options like going for adult dri­ving lessons can be too great a blow to some seniors’ pride. Now, sci­en­tists claim that there’s anoth­er option avail­able to help old­er dri­vers main­tain their abil­i­ties on the road. [Read more…] about The ulti­mate in trans­fer from brain train­ing to real-world out­comes: Reduc­ing the risk of at-fault acci­dents by almost 50%

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Peak Performance, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: brain-game, Brain-Training, checklist, cognifit, cognitive training games, Cognitive-Training, driving, games, mental-abilities, older-drivers, Posit-Science, train-your-brain, UFOV, useful-field-of-view

News you can use: To improve memory, exercise brain and body at the same time

February 27, 2018 by SharpBrains

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Time for Sharp­Brains’ eNewslet­ter  track­ing the lat­est think­ing, research and tools for brain health.

This month we fea­ture five fas­ci­nat­ing inter­views at the fron­tier of applied neu­ro­science and a recent study sug­gest­ing that “Per­form­ing mem­o­ry train­ing exer­cis­es at the same time as ped­al­ing a sta­tion­ary bike led to bet­ter gains in mem­o­ry than doing the train­ing exer­cis­es after work­ing up a sweat…”

Enjoy the read!

New thinking:

  • A con­ver­sa­tion with Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg on Cre­ativ­i­ty, Neu­ro­science, and Tech­no­log­i­cal Innovation
  • Neu­ropsy­chol­o­gist Amy Serin would like to see every­one avoid the detri­men­tal effects of an over­ac­tive stress response
  • Dr. Albert Kwon wants to har­ness Aug­ment­ed Real­i­ty to sig­nif­i­cant­ly ease access to Neu­ro­log­i­cal Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Therapies
  • Tara Thi­a­gara­jan on build­ing a glob­al plat­form for brain research that tru­ly cap­tures the diver­si­ty of humanity
  • Jan Samzelius on why mon­i­tor­ing Typ­ing Cadence may help detect ear­ly Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s Disease

New research:

  • To max­i­mize cog­ni­tive ben­e­fits, study sug­gests you exer­cise brain and body at the same time
  • 10-year study finds that the high­er the blood sug­ar lev­el, the faster the cog­ni­tive decline over time — regard­less of dia­bet­ic status
  • New book by Steven Pinker reminds us that Tech­nol­o­gy is not destroy­ing our Minds (but there’s always more Enlight­ened ways to har­ness it)
  • The Chan Zucker­berg Ini­tia­tive reach­es out of neu­ro­science to expand its Neu­rode­gen­er­a­tion Chal­lenge Network

New tools:

  • NHS Choic­es helps improve brain health and sci­ence lit­er­a­cy by report­ing find­ings in con­text — as seen in this brain train­ing & schiz­o­phre­nia example
  • Halo Neu­ro­science rais­es $13M to fur­ther devel­op and com­mer­cial­ize neu­ro­mod­u­la­tion head­set aimed at induc­ing “hyper­plas­tic­i­ty”
  • Ohio Opi­oid Tech­nol­o­gy Chal­lenge funds pro­gram test­ing neu­ro­feed­back-based brain train­ing to reduce crav­ings and bat­tle opi­oid addiction

 

Final­ly, you may want to learn about cog­ni­tion and men­tal self-rota­tion with these quick brain teasers.

Have a great month of March,

The Sharp­Brains Team

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Peak Performance, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Albert Kwon, Amy Serin, augmented reality, Brain Teasers, Brain-health, brain-research, brain-teaser, Brain-Training, cognitive-decline, creativity, diversity, Elkhonon-Goldberg, Halo Neuroscience, hyperplasticity, innovation, Jan Samzelius, neurodegeneration, Neurofeedback, neurological, Neuropsychology, neuroscience, NHS Choices, rehabilitation, Steven-Pinker, Stress Response, Tara Thiagarajan

NHS Choices helps improve brain health and science literacy by reporting findings in context — as seen in this brain training & schizophrenia example

February 13, 2018 by SharpBrains

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Video game-based ‘brain train­ing’ may help peo­ple with schiz­o­phre­nia (NHS Choices):

“Peo­ple with schiz­o­phre­nia can be trained by play­ing a video game to con­trol the part of the brain linked to ver­bal hal­lu­ci­na­tions,” BBC News reports [Read more…] about NHS Choic­es helps improve brain health and sci­ence lit­er­a­cy by report­ing find­ings in con­text — as seen in this brain train­ing & schiz­o­phre­nia example

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: auditory, auditory hallucinations, Brain-Training, fMRI, fMRI neurofeedback, hallucinations, literacy, neurocognitive, Neurofeedback, neuroimaging, NHS, NHS Choices, schizophrenia, video-game

Ohio Opioid Technology Challenge funds program testing neurofeedback-based brain training to reduce cravings and battle opioid addiction

January 31, 2018 by SharpBrains

Soft­ware engi­neer Kel­ly Cash­ion (right) adjusts a wire­less EEG head­set on research engi­neer Nilesh Powar. Cred­it: The Uni­ver­si­ty of Day­ton Research Institute

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Bat­tling Addic­tion With Brain­pow­er (Uni­ver­si­ty of Day­ton press release):

“The Uni­ver­si­ty of Day­ton Research Insti­tute has won a $10,000 Ohio Opi­oid Tech­nol­o­gy Chal­lenge award for a pro­gram that will teach peo­ple with opi­oid addic­tions how to reduce their crav­ings by regain­ing con­trol of their brains.

“Using neu­ro­feed­back, we’ll work with our vol­un­teers to help them learn to reg­u­late activ­i­ty in the part of their brain asso­ci­at­ed with crav­ings and rewire some of those path­ways, allow­ing them to reduce their crav­ings and expe­ri­ence a more ‘nor­mal’ state even with­out opi­oids.” [Read more…] about Ohio Opi­oid Tech­nol­o­gy Chal­lenge funds pro­gram test­ing neu­ro­feed­back-based brain train­ing to reduce crav­ings and bat­tle opi­oid addiction

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: addiction, biofeedback, Brain-Training, brainpower, brainwave, EEG, electroencephalography, hardware, medication, Neurofeedback, Ohio, Ohio Third Frontier, opioid addictions, Opioid Technology Challenge, Research Institute, software, treatment centers, University of Dayton, University of Dayton Research Institute

Update: Why monitoring Typing Cadence may help detect early Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s Disease

January 25, 2018 by SharpBrains

Above: Pat­tern of Typ­ing Cadence in 52-year-old male with Parkin­son’s. Source: NeuraMetrix

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Time for Sharp­Brains’ first eNewslet­ter in 2018, offer­ing a fas­ci­nat­ing sneek peek into the rapid­ly grow­ing toolk­it to mea­sure and improve brain health. 

(And don’t miss the fun teas­er at the end!)

New thinking:

  • Brain­no­va­tions Win­ner Jan Samzelius on why mon­i­tor­ing Typ­ing Cadence may help detect ear­ly Parkin­son’s and Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Firms Race to Find New Ways to Scan Brain Health
  • Pho­to­bio­mod­u­la­tion: A new and promis­ing way to enhance brain function
  • Dig­i­tal Men­tal Health: the Hurt, the Hype, the Hope
  • Eight Tips To Under­stand and Remem­ber What You Read

New research:

  • 10 Research Find­ings to Encour­age and Guide Med­i­ta­tion in 2018
  • Study sug­gests the sus­tained use of canola oil may cause mem­o­ry prob­lems and brain damage
  • With phar­ma exit­ing Alzheimer’s research, new hope seen in the com­bi­na­tion of brain train­ing and tran­scra­nial direct cur­rent stim­u­la­tion (tDCS)
  • Impor­tant insights on the grow­ing home use of tDCS brain stimulation

New tools:

  • Coder and teenag­er Emma Yang launch­es crowd­fund­ing cam­paign for app to help improve Alzheimer’s patients’ dai­ly lives
  • Pend­ing FDA review, research find­ings pave way for Akili’s EVO to become first brain train­ing plat­form pre­scribed for ADHD
  • Pear Ther­a­peu­tics rais­es $50M to devel­op and mar­ket a port­fo­lio of dig­i­tal ther­a­peu­tics for men­tal health
  • Neur­al Ana­lyt­ics rais­es $15M to com­mer­cial­ize non-inva­sive, ultra­sound-based, brain health mon­i­tor­ing device

 

 

Final­ly, a quick brain teas­er. What do you see first, ani­mals or people?

 

Have a great month of February!

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Akili, Alzheimers-disease, Brain Teasers, Brain-Fitness, Brain-health, brain-teaser, Brain-Training, canola oil, digital health, meditation, Mental-Health, Neural Analytics, Pear Therapeutics, Photobiomodulation, quick brain teaser, tDCS, Typing Cadence

With pharma exiting Alzheimer’s research, new hope (and urgency) seen in the combination of brain training and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)

January 22, 2018 by SharpBrains

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What does the future hold for the war on Alzheimer’s? (The Globe and Mail):

“After spend­ing huge sums on clin­i­cal trails in recent years, the phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal indus­try has failed to find a drug that can halt the mind-rob­bing dis­ease. And this month, Pfiz­er announced it is end­ing its Alzheimer’s research, although oth­er com­pa­nies haven’t thrown in the tow­el yet. But oth­er pre­ven­tion mea­sures are being explored.

Sev­er­al Toron­to hos­pi­tals are involved in an ambi­tious $10-mil­lion, five-year study to deter­mine whether a com­bi­na­tion of cog­ni­tive reme­di­a­tion – men­tal exer­cis­es – plus elec­tri­cal stim­u­la­tion of the brain can delay [Read more…] about With phar­ma exit­ing Alzheimer’s research, new hope (and urgency) seen in the com­bi­na­tion of brain train­ing and tran­scra­nial direct cur­rent stim­u­la­tion (tDCS)

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Alzheimers, brain, Brain-Fitness, Brain-Training, brain-training-exercises, cognitive remediation, cognitive-reserve, dementia, electrical stimulation, mental-exercises, Pfizer, pharmaceutical, prefrontal-cortex, psychiatry, tDCS, Toronto, Transcranial-direct-current-stimulation

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