Cell phone use not seen to increase risk of brain tumors among adults

By SharpBrains | August 4, 2015

. Cell phones and risk of brain tumors: What’s the real sci­ence? (CNN): “…In 2011, the World Health Orga­ni­za­tion clas­si­fied the kind of low-ener­­gy radi­a­tion that cell phones emit as “pos­si­bly car­cino­genic” because of a link between cell phone use and a type of malig­nant brain tumor called glioma and a benign brain tumor called…

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Addressing cognitive deficits due to ADHD or leukemia/ brain tumor treatments

By SharpBrains | February 14, 2014

The Sci­ence Behind ‘Brain Train­ing’ (The Atlantic): “Julie Schweitzer, direc­tor of the ADHD Pro­gram at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia in Davis’s MIND Insti­tute, con­duct­ed a ran­dom­ized study of chil­dren diag­nosed with ADHD. When pub­lished in July 2012 in the jour­nal Neu­rother­a­peu­tics, Schweitzer’s study found that children 

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