“Our culture seems obsessed with violent sports…Don’t mess with a brain!”

By SharpBrains | February 5, 2014

Ques­tion by Janet: Giv­en the grow­ing con­cern about sports-relat­ed con­cus­sions, what do you think schools should be doing? abol­ish or severe­ly reduce var­si­ty teams? spon­sor only “safe” sports? Is there research on how con­cus­sions may inter­fere with learn­ing and aca­d­e­m­ic results? Answer by Dr. Robert Syl­west­er: I don’t know how to respond respon­si­bly to your question,…

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Update: Four Essential Yet Overlooked Facts About Your Brain

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 20, 2013

Time 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…

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Update: From Drugs and Helmets to Digital Brain Health toolkits

By SharpBrains | April 1, 2013 |

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…

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Beyond helmets: concussions require proactive, individualized monitoring and rehab

By SharpBrains | March 21, 2013

New 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 

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

By SharpBrains | January 14, 2013

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…

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