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The National Health Service (NHS) in the UK considers adding a 5‑minute cognitive test to its annual health check-up

September 18, 2019 by SharpBrains

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Using AI assess­ment to tack­le demen­tia in ultra-ear­ly stages (Dig­i­tal Health):

“Demen­tia and Alzheimer’s dis­ease con­tin­ue to increase and remain the lead­ing cause of death in Eng­land and Wales, account­ing for 12.8% of all deaths reg­is­tered in 2018 [Read more…] about The Nation­al Health Ser­vice (NHS) in the UK con­sid­ers adding a 5‑minute cog­ni­tive test to its annu­al health check-up

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Alzheimer’s Disease, artificial intelligence, Cambridge University, Cognetivity Neurosciences, cognitive decline, dementia, diagnosis, health check-up, iPad, NHS

New $30M venture philanthropy fund aims at revolutionizing the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease

August 8, 2018 by SharpBrains

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Why diag­nos­ing Alzheimer’s today is so difficult—and how we can do bet­ter (Bill Gates):

“Alzheimer’s research is a fron­tier where we can dra­mat­i­cal­ly improve human life—both the lives of peo­ple who have the dis­ease and their loved ones. I’m opti­mistic that we can sub­stan­tial­ly alter the course of Alzheimer’s if we make progress in sev­er­al key areas. One of the biggest things we could do right now is devel­op a reli­able, afford­able, and acces­si­ble diag­nos­tic. [Read more…] about New $30M ven­ture phil­an­thropy fund aims at rev­o­lu­tion­iz­ing the diag­no­sis of Alzheimer’s Disease

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: ADDF, Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation, Alzheimers-research, Bill Gates, Brain-health, cognitive-decline, diagnosis, diagnostics, Diagnostics Accelerator, venture philanthropy

Study suggests the real deficit underlying Attention Deficit Disorders is not Attention, but Working Memory

October 26, 2017 by Dr. David Rabiner

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Many par­ents have observed that their child with ADHD stays atten­tive and engaged dur­ing ‘high inter­est’ activ­i­ties, e.g., while play­ing video games, but has con­sid­er­able prob­lems stay­ing focused on less inher­ent­ly engag­ing tasks, e.g., doing school­work. This dis­crep­an­cy in atten­tion dur­ing pre­ferred and non-pre­ferred activ­i­ties has led some to [Read more…] about Study sug­gests the real deficit under­ly­ing Atten­tion Deficit Dis­or­ders is not Atten­tion, but Work­ing Memory

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Filed Under: Attention & ADD/ADHD, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: academic, ADHD-diagnosis, cognitive, cognitive-abilities, deficits, diagnosis, math, neurocognitive, neurocognitive deficits, Star Wars, video-games, visual-attention, Working-memory, working-memory-training

Study shows why children with ADHD should be reevaluated each year: Attention problems perceived by teachers are far less stable than we imagine

June 1, 2017 by Dr. David Rabiner

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While the study below was pub­lished a few years ago, it makes an impor­tant point that I think is worth revisiting.

In the study, pub­lished in the Jour­nal of Devel­op­men­tal and Behav­ioral Pedi­atrics, my col­leagues and I looked at how fre­quent­ly teacher rat­ings of inat­ten­tive symp­toms per­sist in chil­dren from one grade to the next. We felt this was an impor­tant issue to exam­ine because recog­ni­tion that ADHD is often a chron­ic con­di­tion can obscure the fact that atten­tion prob­lems do not always reflect an endur­ing child char­ac­ter­is­tic, and that impor­tant changes are pos­si­ble when chil­dren move to a new classroom.

As you will see below, clin­i­cal­ly-ele­vat­ed atten­tion prob­lems as per­ceived by teach­ers are less sta­ble than you may have imag­ined. [Read more…] about Study shows why chil­dren with ADHD should be reeval­u­at­ed each year: Atten­tion prob­lems per­ceived by teach­ers are far less sta­ble than we imagine

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Filed Under: Attention & ADD/ADHD, Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: adhd, attention-problems, children, diagnoses, diagnosis, elementary school, medication, teachers

Next: Harnessing information and communications technology (ICT) to address mental health challenges affecting 700 million people today

August 23, 2016 by SharpBrains

Global mental healthMak­ing Men­tal Health a Glob­al Pri­or­i­ty (The Dana Foundation):

“Who hasn’t felt a sense of loss or detach­ment from our fam­i­lies, friends, and reg­u­lar rou­tines, or expe­ri­enced ner­vous­ness and anx­i­ety about changes in our per­son­al and pro­fes­sion­al lives? [Read more…] about Next: Har­ness­ing infor­ma­tion and com­mu­ni­ca­tions tech­nol­o­gy (ICT) to address men­tal health chal­lenges affect­ing 700 mil­lion peo­ple today

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: abuse, anxiety, depression, diagnosis, health, healthcare, Information and communications technology, mental-disorders, Mental-Health, mobile, monitoring, screening, technology, treatment, World Health Organization, World-Bank

Occupational therapy study: Improving processing speed seen as key target to help patients with multiple sclerosis

August 26, 2015 by SharpBrains

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Decreased Activ­i­ty Lev­els in MS Patients Linked To Cog­ni­tive Impair­ment (Mul­ti­ple Scle­ro­sis News):

“A new study pub­lished in the Amer­i­can Jour­nal of Occu­pa­tion­al Ther­a­py assessed the cog­ni­tive fac­tors affect­ed in mul­ti­ple scle­ro­sis patients con­cern­ing their activ­i­ty and par­tic­i­pa­tion in every­day life [Read more…] about Occu­pa­tion­al ther­a­py study: Improv­ing pro­cess­ing speed seen as key tar­get to help patients with mul­ti­ple sclerosis

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: cognitive, cognitive factors, cognitive-decline, Cognitive-impairment, diagnosis, disability, employment, multiple-sclerosis, occupational therapy, occupational-therapists, processing-speed, workplace

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