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Update: Four Essential Yet Overlooked Facts About Your Brain

December 20, 2013 by Alvaro Fernandez

brainstormingTime for Sharp­Brains’ Decem­ber 2013 e‑newsletter, fea­tur­ing a vari­ety of resources, brain teasers and arti­cles. Enjoy the reading…and Hap­py Holidays!

Fea­tured resources:

  • Arti­cle: 4 Essen­tial (and Over­looked) Facts About Your Brain and Your Mind (via Cre­ativ­i­ty Post)
  • Video: How to Opti­mize Brain Health and Per­for­mance at Any Age (via New York Pub­lic Library and YouTube)
  • Book dis­count: The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness via Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk  (dis­count expires this Sun­day, Decem­ber 22nd!)

Brain teasers:

  • Brain teasers to under­stand and boost cog­ni­tive abilities
  • Test your Brain with these Teasers and Visu­al Illusions

Research and indus­try news:

  • Neu­roe­d­u­ca­tion: Top find­ings to update edu­ca­tion and learning
  • Debunk­ing the left-brain/ right-brain myth
  • Study: Does Mind­ful­ness Med­i­ta­tion train­ing help adults with ADHD?
  • Study: Ques­tion­ing the cog­ni­tive ben­e­fits of music classes
  • Under­stand­ing the impact of con­cus­sions on the brain
  • Roset­ta Stone to buy Viv­i­ty Labs, devel­op­er of Fit Brains brain train­ing games

Please remem­ber that we are host­ing a num­ber of webchats in Jan­u­ary to dis­cuss your impres­sions and ques­tions about  The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness: How to Opti­mize Brain Health and Per­for­mance at Any Age (284 pages; 2013), so we hope you can spend some time read­ing the book over the hol­i­days, and per­haps even dis­cuss it with friends and relatives.

We wish you Hap­py Hol­i­days and a Pros­per­ous 2014!

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Filed Under: Brain Teasers, Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: brain, Brain Teasers, cognitive-abilities, concussions, health, meditation, neuroeducation, performance, visual-illusions

Update: From Drugs and Helmets to Digital Brain Health toolkits

April 1, 2013 by SharpBrains

10 Predictions clip

Time for a new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains’ e‑newsletter. This time we focus on how much the brain health and behav­ioral health fields are chang­ing, as they upgrade tra­di­tion­al toolk­its with dig­i­tal plat­forms to bet­ter mon­i­tor, assess and enhance cog­ni­tion. Often dri­ven by a grow­ing con­sumer demand for improved brain fit­ness, as you can see in this 3‑minute clip (opens YouTube video).

We are proud to report that our lat­est mar­ket report is prov­ing to be valu­able to a range of exec­u­tives and inno­va­tors work­ing along those lines, as you can read here.

New Sci­ence

  • Neu­ro­sci­en­tists: Devel­op dig­i­tal games to improve brain func­tion and well-being
  • Mis­use & Abuse of ADHD Meds among col­lege stu­dents: Updat­ed review of a grow­ing concern
  • Beyond hel­mets: con­cus­sions require proac­tive, indi­vid­u­al­ized mon­i­tor­ing and rehab

New Tools

  • Work­ing mem­o­ry train­ing can improve emo­tion­al reg­u­la­tion and behav­ioral health
  • Cam­bridge Cog­ni­tion, devel­op­er of com­put­erised neu­ropsy­cho­log­i­cal tests, to go pub­lic in the UK
  • The future of biosen­sors and nanotechnology

New think­ing

  • Debunk­ing 10 Brain Fit­ness and Brain Train­ing Myths
  • Rais­ing aware­ness about the dis­tract­ed mind (PBS special)
  • Drugs for Ear­ly-Stage Alzheimer’s?
  • New guide­lines for neu­rol­o­gists pre­scrib­ing cog­ni­tive enhance­ment drugs

Have a great month of April!

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, SharpBrains Monthly eNewsletter, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: adhd, Behavioral Health, Brain-Fitness, Brain-health, Cambridge Cognition, cognition, concussions, digital platforms, games, helmets, Working-memory

Beyond helmets: concussions require proactive, individualized monitoring and rehab

March 21, 2013 by SharpBrains

footballNew Con­cus­sion Guide­lines Stress Indi­vid­ual Treat­ment (The New York Times):
“The Amer­i­can Acad­e­my of Neu­rol­o­gy said Mon­day that it had revised its guide­lines for han­dling con­cus­sions to empha­size treat­ing ath­letes case by case rather than accord­ing to a pre­de­ter­mined scale…In not­ing that more than a mil­lion Amer­i­can ath­letes [Read more…] about Beyond hel­mets: con­cus­sions require proac­tive, indi­vid­u­al­ized mon­i­tor­ing and rehab

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Peak Performance Tagged With: concussion risk, concussions, football, neurobehavioral, neurology, neuropsychological assessments

10 Predictions on How Digital Platforms will Transform Brain Health in 2013

January 14, 2013 by SharpBrains

Just a quick note: we’ll host a webi­nar on Jan­u­ary 30th to dis­cuss key mar­ket pre­dic­tions based on “The Dig­i­tal Brain Health Mar­ket 2012–2020: Web-based, mobile and bio­met­rics-based tech­nol­ogy to assess, mon­i­tor and enhance cog­ni­tion and brain func­tion­ing”, our new mar­ket report.

Here are 10 pre­dic­tions, many of which will like­ly be real­ized before the end of 2013: [Read more…] about 10 Pre­dic­tions on How Dig­i­tal Plat­forms will Trans­form Brain Health in 2013

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: AAA, Alzheimers-disease, Android tablet, biometrics, brain health check-up, brain-based biomarker, Brain-Fitness, Brain-health, Brain-Training, cCBT, CES, cognitive-baseline, cognitive-behavioral-therapy, cognitive-screenings, Cognitive-Training, concussions, consumer wellness, corporate-wellness, depression, depression-treatment, digital, drug-based therapy, FDA, insomnia, iPad, lumos-labs, MCI, meditation, multiple-sclerosis, neuroimaging, NeuroSky, World-Economic-Forum

NFL donates $30 million to improve concussion & brain injury care

September 5, 2012 by SharpBrains

NFL donates $30 mil­lion to Nation­al Insti­tutes of Health (press release):

“The Nation­al Foot­ball League will pro­vide $30 mil­lion in fund­ing for med­ical research to the Foun­da­tion for the Nation­al Insti­tutes of Health (FNIH), NFL Com­mis­sion­er Roger Good­ell announced today [Read more…] about NFL donates $30 mil­lion to improve con­cus­sion & brain injury care

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: Alzheimers, brain-injury, concussions, football, NFL, NIH

Gabrielle Giffords’ recovery and Cognitive Rehab Insurance Coverage Gap

August 11, 2011 by Alvaro Fernandez

Gif­fords’ recov­ery renews focus on cov­er­age gap for vet­er­ans (Mia­mi Herald):

- “Doc­tors and reha­bil­i­ta­tion spe­cial­ists have learned a great deal from the treat­ment of trau­mat­ic brain injuries in com­bat vet­er­ans of Iraq and Afghanistan. One in five vet­er­ans of those wars has suf­fered some form of trau­mat­ic brain injury, most com­mon­ly con­cus­sions from road­side bombs.”

- “Yet vet­er­ans’ health care does­n’t con­sis­tent­ly cov­er cog­ni­tive reha­bil­i­ta­tion ther­a­py, the same ther­a­py that’s helped Gif­fords and oth­er well-known fig­ures — such as Sen. Tim John­son of South Dako­ta and ABC News cor­re­spon­dent Bob Woodruff — get their lives back to nor­mal after major brain traumas.”

- “Cog­ni­tive reha­bil­i­ta­tion can include speech and com­mu­ni­ca­tion ther­a­pies, and ther­a­pies to boost mem­o­ry and social skills and relearn rou­tine tasks such as get­ting dressed and shop­ping at the gro­cery store.”

Relat­ed resources:

  • 2009 meta analy­sis of the cog­ni­tive reha­bil­i­ta­tion literature
  • Sharp­Brains inter­view with Lee Woodruff on Bob Woodruf­f’s cog­ni­tive recov­ery process, which we includ­ed in The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness to raise aware­ness of this impor­tant topic.

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: Bob-Woodruff, cognitive-rehab, cognitive-rehabilitation, concussions, Gabrielle Giffords, traumatic-brain-injuries, veterans

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