Cognitive training, diet, exercise, and vascular management seen to improve cognition even in people with genetic predisposition for dementia (APOE e4)

By SharpBrains | May 7, 2018

___ How do genet­ics impact ear­ly inter­ven­tion for demen­tia? (Med­ical News Bul­letin): “Car­dio­vas­cu­lar and neu­ro­log­i­cal dis­eases, such as demen­tia, have been linked to dys­func­tion of a vari­a­tion of the apolipopro­tein E, or APOE, gene, called the APOE e4 allele…The Finnish Geri­atric Inter­ven­tion Study to Pre­vent Cog­ni­tive Impair­ment and Dis­abil­i­ty (FINGER) eval­u­at­ed whether the effec­tive­ness of…

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Study: Use of methylphenidate-based ADHD medication increases the risk of heart problems

By SharpBrains | August 20, 2014

ADHD med­ica­tion enhances the risk of heart prob­lems in chil­dren (Sci­ence Nordic): “The risk of devel­op­ing heart prob­lems is twice as big for chil­dren tak­ing med­i­cine for Atten­tion Deficit-Hyper­­ac­­tiv­i­­ty Dis­or­der (ADHD) when com­pared to chil­dren not receiv­ing the medicine…The study builds on data from 714,000 children 

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Health value of Omega‑3 supplements is increasingly questioned

By SharpBrains | September 17, 2012

More Evi­dence That Omega‑3 Sup­ple­ments Don’t Work (Forbes): “Once again researchers have failed to find any clin­i­cal ben­e­fit for omega‑3 sup­ple­ments. In a new meta-ana­ly­­sis and sys­tem­at­ic review pub­lished in JAMA, Evan­ge­los Rizos and col­leagues ana­lyzed 20 ran­dom­ized con­trolled tri­als includ­ing 68,680 patients and 

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Making Healthy Choices: Primare Care and Prevention

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 17, 2009

Hiroshi Komiya­ma, Pres­i­dent of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Tokyo and Chair­per­son of the Glob­al Agen­da Coun­cil on the Chal­lenges of Geron­tol­ogy I am a mem­ber of, just pro­vid­ed coun­cil mem­bers with a brief update of his par­tic­i­pa­tion in the recent World Eco­nom­ic Forum. Part of the pro­ceed­ings are pub­lic — you may enjoy read­ing this pan­el write-up…

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Brain Fitness at New York Public Library

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 6, 2008

A few weeks ago I had the plea­sure to give a talk to one hun­dred or so staff mem­bers at New York Pub­lic Library. As you would expect, it was a very stim­u­lat­ing group, and one of the par­tic­i­pants, Brigid Caha­lan, just wrote a fun blog post on her impres­sions from the event: Brain Fit­ness at…

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Wellness Coaching for Brain Health and Fitness

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 30, 2008 |

We just received this quote of how a major health sys­tem is using our Brain Fit­ness Mar­ket Report: “At Sut­ter Health Part­ners we rec­og­nize the impor­tance of brain health and how much the health of the brain and the body are inter­de­pen­dent.  The mar­ket report helped us fur­ther tar­get our coach­ing efforts to inte­grate brain…

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