On the value and the limits of cognitive screening, as seen in President Trump’s examination

By SharpBrains | January 17, 2018

In the News: Why you may be mis­un­der­stand­ing the men­tal test that Trump passed with fly­ing col­ors (The Wash­ing­ton Post): “On its sur­face, the Mon­tre­al Cog­ni­tive Assess­ment (MoCA) test seems pret­ty easy. Can you draw a three-dimen­­sion­al cube? Can you iden­ti­fy these var­i­ous ani­mals? Can you draw a clock? Can you repeat back the phrase, “The cat…

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Mental health meets the digital revolution: Mindstrong Health raises $14 million to modernize the diagnosis and treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders via artificial intelligence (AI) and smartphones

By SharpBrains | June 19, 2017

— Mind­strong Health Rais­es $14 Mil­lion in Series‑A Fund­ing (press release): “Mind­strong Health, a start­up trans­form­ing the diag­no­sis and treat­ment of neu­ropsy­chi­atric dis­or­ders through the pow­er of AI and ubiq­ui­tous mobile tech­nol­o­gy, today announced that it has secured a $14 mil­lion round of Series‑A fund­ing. Led by Fore­site Cap­i­tal and ARCH Ven­ture Part­ners, the round…

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Study debunks 4 common myths about brain training and lifelong cognitive enhancement

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 7, 2017

— If the media is your main source of infor­ma­tion about brain train­ing and cog­ni­tive enhance­ment, you will prob­a­bly believe the fol­low­ing: 1) All brain train­ing is the same… 2) …and it sim­ply does­n’t work. 3) Com­mer­cial brain train­ing pro­grams, espe­cial­ly, don’t work. 4) How could they work? Genet­ics is des­tiny, aging is a pre­de­ter­mined process…so by age 60…

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Both Important and Urgent: Getting ready to serve the Cognitive & Brain Health needs of an Aging Population

By David Stoller @ CC-ABHI | December 15, 2016

—– On 8 Decem­ber 2016, Ron Riesen­bach, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of the Cana­di­an Cen­tre for Aging and Brain Health Inno­va­tion (CC-ABHI), had the unique plea­sure of pre­sent­ing to a glob­al inno­va­tion com­mu­ni­ty through the Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Con­fer­ence. The unique nature of the ful­ly on-line for­mat allowed him to share CC-ABHI’s vision and pro­gram news, as well…

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The FDA clears two computerized cognitive tests to assist in medical evaluations following brain injury or concussion

By SharpBrains | August 26, 2016

FDA allows mar­ket­ing of first-of-kind com­put­er­ized cog­ni­tive tests to help assess cog­ni­tive skills after a head injury (FDA news release): “The U.S. Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion today per­mit­ted mar­ket­ing of two new devices to assess a patient’s cog­ni­tive func­tion imme­di­ate­ly after a sus­pect­ed brain injury or con­cus­sion. The Imme­di­ate Post-Con­­cus­­sion Assess­ment and Cog­ni­tive Test­ing (ImPACT)…

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