May e‑newsletter: MIT Solve launches Brain Health Challenge, asking “How can every person improve their brain health and mental resilience?”

By SharpBrains | May 25, 2017

—– Time for Sharp­Brains’ May e‑newsletter, high­light­ing what’s new in brain health and men­tal per­for­mance, and fea­tur­ing a very rel­e­vant MIT ini­tia­tive and a thought-pro­­vok­ing study on the “Cog­ni­tive Divide.” New think­ing MIT Solve launch­es Brain Health Chal­lenge: How can every per­son improve their brain health and men­tal resilience? Men­tal Health Inno­va­tion and Dr. Tom Insel:…

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Update: Why Untrained Brains Are A Bit Like Puppies (And How Dance Offers Great Brain Training)

By SharpBrains | April 27, 2017

— Time for Sharp­Brains’ April e‑newsletter, fea­tur­ing what’s new in brain health and cog­ni­tive per­for­mance. Quite stim­u­lat­ing read­ing :-) New think­ing Why Untrained Brains Are A Bit Like Pup­pies, And How To Put Togeth­er the Build­ing Blocks of a Smarter, Hap­pi­er Mind Mak­ing Stress Work for You, Instead of Against You 5 Facts You Need To Know…

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UT Dallas researcher secures $2.7m grant to better monitor and address TBI-related cognitive and functional deficits

By UT Dallas | January 18, 2017

Sci­en­tist Gets Grant for Study of Vet­er­ans with Trau­mat­ic Brain Injuries (UT Dal­las release): A researcher from the Cen­ter for Brain­Health at UT Dal­las has been award­ed a $2.7 mil­lion grant from the Depart­ment of Defense (DoD) under the Joint Warfight­er Med­ical Research Pro­gram. The grant, award­ed to Dr. Daniel Kraw­czyk, deputy direc­tor of the…

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Does brain training work = Does it improve cognitive performance in a sustained manner?

By SharpBrains | April 15, 2016

Brain Train­ing – Can We Real­ly Enhance Our Cog­ni­tive Skills? (Brain­Blog­ger): “Under what con­di­tions does brain train­ing work?” was the ques­tion posed at one of the ses­sions of the Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit, Mon­i­tor­ing and Enhanc­ing Brain Health in the Per­va­sive Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy, an event that brought togeth­er over 30 of the world’s top experts on brain…

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Neuroimaging studies: In soccer, over one thousand “headers” per year can lead to brain injury and cognitive impairment

By SharpBrains | July 9, 2015

. Study indi­cates there may be a head­ing thresh­old above which the risk for brain dam­age increas­es sig­nif­i­cant­ly: An Inter­view with Michael L. Lip­ton (Dana Foun­da­tion): “Dr. Lip­ton pio­neered the use of MRI tech­nol­o­gy to detect mild trau­mat­ic brain injuries (mTBI) from con­cus­sions. Such injuries, which may bring cog­ni­tive and behav­ioral impair­ment and even neu­rode­gen­er­a­tion later…

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