Posts Tagged ‘diet’
Digital brain health start-up Neurotrack raises $6.5m to market cognitive assessment and intervention
Neurotrack raises $6.5M for cognitive assessment tool, management program (MobiHealth News): “Palo Alto-based Neurotrack, which has developed an online cognitive assessment test, raised $6.5 million in a round led by Khosla Ventures with participation from Social Capital, Founders Fund, AME Cloud Ventures, and iSeed Ventures.
Read MoreTo address the upcoming Alzheimer’s “epidemic”, let’s approach 2016 with these 4 Pillars of Alzheimer’s Prevention
. As you probably know, we are in a health care crisis. The number of people with Alzheimer’s disease continues to sky-rocket as people age and may reach crisis proportions. A national goal has been set to prevent and cure Alzheimer’s by 2020 or no later than 2025, with a lion’s share of this money…
Read MoreTrend: Nestle launches Wellness Club in Japan integrating Nutritionists and Brain Trainers
Match made in nutritional heaven: Nestlé launches Wellness Club (press release): ‘Nestlé Japan has launched the company’s first personalised health support service. Nestlé Wellness Club provides subscribers with nutritional support based on data about their physical activity, dietary information and brain training scores,
Read MoreNeuroimaging study: Unregulated stress can sabotage your self-control and your diet
. Brain scans show how everyday stress can sabotage your diet (CBS News): “As anyone who’s ever downed a pint of ice cream after a bad day at the office knows, the stresses of everyday life can sabotage self-control when it comes to diet. But why?
Read MoreFinal 6 hours to join online course How to Navigate Conventional and Complementary ADHD Treatments for Healthy Brain Development
. Heads-up: Registration for the upcoming online course How to Navigate Conventional and Complementary ADHD Treatments for Healthy Brain Development, featuring Duke University’s Dr. David Rabiner, ends in less than 48 hours. Click Here to learn more and register. The course starts this Tuesday, May 12th! Course description: In order to successfully promote children’s healthy brain development, every
Read MoreStudy: Dietary interventions can help children with ADHD (especially with proper monitoring and adjustment)
Are dietary interventions effective for treating ADHD? This has been a controversial question over the years with strong proponents on both sides of the issue. For many parents and professionals, trying to parse through the different claims about the impact of diet on ADHD has been challenging and confusing.
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