Mapping the Brain To Better Enhance and Treat the Mind

By SharpBrains | September 14, 2012

Neu­ro­science map­ping brain con­nec­tions (Los Ange­les Times): “The Human Con­nec­tome Project, a $40-mil­lion endeav­or fund­ed by the Nation­al Insti­tutes of Health, aims to plot these con­nec­tions — both their struc­ture and their func­tion. “It’s basi­cal­ly a Man­hat­tan Project to try to estab­lish the wiring dia­gram,” Koroshetz says…The quest

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Brain Researchers Start Mapping the Human ‘Connectome’

By SharpBrains | July 2, 2012

Brain Researchers Start Map­ping the Human ‘Con­nec­tome’ (Press release): “Anal­o­gous to the Human Genome Project—which mapped the human genet­ic code—the Human Con­nec­tome Project seeks to map “the com­plete, point-to-point spa­tial con­nec­tiv­i­ty of neur­al path­ways in the brain,” accord­ing to Arthur W. Toga, PhD, and col­leagues of David Gef­fen School of Med­i­cine, Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia Los…

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Update: Harness Neuroplasticity with Enthusiasm, Exercise & Personalized Medicine

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 28, 2012

Time for Sharp­Brains’ Feb­ru­ary 2012 eNewslet­ter, fea­tur­ing in this occa­sion mul­ti­ple and com­ple­men­tary per­spec­tives on how to har­ness neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty: with enthu­si­asm, BOTH phys­i­cal AND cog­ni­tive exer­cise, and (once tools become bet­ter stan­dard­ized and wide­ly avail­able) brain-based per­son­al­ized med­i­cine. Fea­tured Per­spec­tives: To Har­ness Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty, Start with Enthu­si­asm, by Dr. Hele­na Popovic Q&A with Dr. Yaakov Stern on Brain Reserve,…

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