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Aerobic exercise–not diet or health education–seen to significantly improve executive functions among older sedentary adults

January 2, 2019 by SharpBrains

Aer­o­bic Exer­cise May Be Key to Bet­ter Neu­rocog­ni­tion (Psy­chol­o­gy Today):

“Duke Uni­ver­si­ty researchers recent­ly report­ed that just six months of aer­o­bic exercise—for 35 min­utes, three times a week—may improve exec­u­tive func­tion in old­er adults who have cog­ni­tive impair­ments. Before they began doing aer­o­bic exer­cise, the pre­vi­ous­ly seden­tary study par­tic­i­pants had dif­fi­cul­ty con­cen­trat­ing, mak­ing deci­sions, and remem­ber­ing [Read more…] about Aer­o­bic exercise–not diet or health education–seen to sig­nif­i­cant­ly improve exec­u­tive func­tions among old­er seden­tary adults

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: cognitive-decline, dementia, diet, health education, neurocognition

Moderate coffee consumption may promote brain health — and it’s not because of caffeine

December 5, 2018 by SharpBrains

How Cof­fee May Pro­tect Brain Health: A New Study Sug­gests The Ben­e­fits Aren’t Just From Caf­feine (Forbes):

“Cof­fee has been get­ting con­sid­er­able atten­tion for a grow­ing list of health ben­e­fits, with brain health high among them. While not with­out a few down­sides, stud­ies have shown impres­sive upsides of mod­er­ate cof­fee con­sump­tion, often linked to its high caf­feine con­tent. But a new lab study sug­gests that when it comes to brain health, cof­fee offers more than the stim­u­lat­ing effects of our favorite legal drug–in fact, decaf could be just as effec­tive [Read more…] about Mod­er­ate cof­fee con­sump­tion may pro­mote brain health — and it’s not because of caffeine

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: Alzheimer’s Disease, caffeine, coffee, cognitive-decline, neuroprotective, Parkinsons-disease, phenylindanes

February 26–28th: Save the Date for the 2019 SharpBrains Virtual Summit and help shape the Future of Brain Health

November 9, 2018 by SharpBrains

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Imag­ine a free annu­al brain check-up — who should take it, and how could it help prevent/ delay/ treat cog­ni­tive decline and Alzheimer’s Disease?

Imag­ine your smart­phone can detect ear­ly signs of depres­sion or Parkinson’s Dis­ease — would you like to know? Who else should know … or not know?

Imag­ine a videogame cleared by the FDA to treat ADHD or sub­stance abuse — how will doc­tors pre­scribe it, patients access it, and insur­ers pay for it?

Imag­ine being respon­si­ble for the health & well­ness of 100,000 peo­ple — how will you help them nav­i­gate inter­ven­tions such as breathing/ exercise/ meditation/ apps/ biofeedback/ tDCS to reg­u­late stress?

Imag­ine invest­ing $100 mil­lion in star­tups devel­op­ing non­in­va­sive, dig­i­tal neu­rotech­nolo­gies — where, and how, will you find great oppor­tu­ni­ties to gen­er­ate finan­cial and social returns?


The 2019 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Feb­ru­ary 26–28th, 2019)  will fea­ture over forty of the world’s top experts, inno­va­tors and investors aim­ing to improve brain health and per­for­mance for all in light of grow­ing neu­ro­science and dig­i­tal tech.

Learn More and Reserve your Spot HERE

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: adhd, Alzheimers-disease, biofeedback, brain check-up, cognitive-decline, depression, digital, neurotechnologies, Neurotechnology, noninvasive, substance-abuse, tDCS

New study reinforces need for proactive cognitive monitoring after heart surgery

October 26, 2018 by SharpBrains

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Heart surgery: Does it impact cog­ni­tive abil­i­ty? (Med­ical News Today):

“Almost 8 mil­lion peo­ple in the Unit­ed States under­go car­dio­vas­cu­lar surgery or oth­er relat­ed pro­ce­dures each year.

Thanks to the steady improve­ments made by med­ical sci­ence, the pro­ce­dures are becom­ing ever safer and can give peo­ple a new lease of life.

Aware of improve­ments in phys­i­cal health due to car­dio­vas­cu­lar surgery, sci­en­tists know less about the cog­ni­tive impact of open heart surgery.

A recent study set out to under­stand pre­cise­ly how heart surgery might influ­ence the mind [Read more…] about New study rein­forces need for proac­tive cog­ni­tive mon­i­tor­ing after heart surgery

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: cognitive monitoring, cognitive outcomes, cognitive-ability, cognitive-baseline, cognitive-decline, heart surgery, surgery, valve surgery

Trend: Growing research on the relationship between sleep and Alzheimer’s Disease

August 15, 2018 by SharpBrains

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The brain may clean out Alzheimer’s plaques dur­ing sleep (Sci­ence­News):

“Bendlin’s stud­ies are part of a mod­est but grow­ing body of research sug­gest­ing that a sleep-deprived brain might be more vul­ner­a­ble to Alzheimer’s dis­ease. In ani­mal stud­ies, lev­els of plaque-form­ing A‑beta plum­met dur­ing sleep. Oth­er research sug­gests that a snooz­ing brain runs the “clean cycle” to remove the day’s meta­bol­ic debris — notably A‑beta — an action that might pro­tect against the dis­ease [Read more…] about Trend: Grow­ing research on the rela­tion­ship between sleep and Alzheimer’s Disease

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: Alzheimer’s Disease, cognitive problems, cognitive-decline, dementia, sleep, sleep apnea, sleep disorders, sleep parameters, sleep problems

New $30M venture philanthropy fund aims at revolutionizing the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease

August 8, 2018 by SharpBrains

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Why diag­nos­ing Alzheimer’s today is so difficult—and how we can do bet­ter (Bill Gates):

“Alzheimer’s research is a fron­tier where we can dra­mat­i­cal­ly improve human life—both the lives of peo­ple who have the dis­ease and their loved ones. I’m opti­mistic that we can sub­stan­tial­ly alter the course of Alzheimer’s if we make progress in sev­er­al key areas. One of the biggest things we could do right now is devel­op a reli­able, afford­able, and acces­si­ble diag­nos­tic. [Read more…] about New $30M ven­ture phil­an­thropy fund aims at rev­o­lu­tion­iz­ing the diag­no­sis of Alzheimer’s Disease

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: ADDF, Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation, Alzheimers-research, Bill Gates, Brain-health, cognitive-decline, diagnosis, diagnostics, Diagnostics Accelerator, venture philanthropy

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