New course to provide an updated review of conventional & complementary ADHD treatments

By Dr. David Rabiner | March 27, 2015

Dear Sharp­Brains read­er, I hope you are doing well. I am writ­ing to let you know about an upcom­ing online course on how to nav­i­gate ADHD treat­ments that I am devel­op­ing with Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, founder of the Sharp­Brains ser­vice track­ing applied brain sci­ence. The course will take place this May, and is intend­ed to equip parents…

Read More

Study: Enhancing brain functioning, and preventing cognitive decline, via diet, exercise and cognitive training

By SharpBrains | March 13, 2015

  Healthy eat­ing, exer­cise, and brain-train­ing pro­gram results in slow­er men­tal decline for old­er peo­ple (Sci­ence Dai­ly): “A com­pre­hen­sive pro­gram pro­vid­ing old­er peo­ple at risk of demen­tia with healthy eat­ing guid­ance, exer­cise, brain train­ing, and man­age­ment of meta­bol­ic and vas­cu­lar risk fac­tors appears to slow down cog­ni­tive decline, accord­ing to the first ever ran­domised con­trolled trial…

Read More

Announcement: New online course to Navigate Conventional and Complementary ADHD Treatments for Healthy Brain Development

By SharpBrains | January 13, 2015

. Dear col­leagues and friends, ?We are pleased to announce an excit­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion between Sharp­Brains and the Atten­tion Research Update to offer a new online course in May 2015, designed to equip par­tic­i­pants with the under­stand­ing and infor­ma­tion required to nav­i­gate and pri­or­i­tize ADHD treatments–both con­ven­tion­al and complementary–to max­i­mize healthy brain devel­op­ment for chil­dren with ADHD.…

Read More

For college students, mental health screening kiosks offer ‘Check-Up from the Neck Up’

By SharpBrains | January 12, 2015

. A ‘Check-Up from the Neck Up’ — Men­tal Health Screen­ing Kiosks at Drex­el (Drex­el Now): “Dur­ing their time in col­lege, most stu­dents learn the impor­tance of look­ing out for their own health. How­ev­er, some miss the con­nec­tion that their men­tal well-being is just as impor­tant as keep­ing a reg­u­lar exer­cise reg­i­men or eat­ing the right diet

Read More

Transcript: Dr. Gary Small on Enhancing Memory and the Brain

By SharpBrains | November 1, 2011

Below you can find the full tran­script of our engag­ing Q&A ses­sion today on mem­ory, mem­ory tech­niques and brain-healthy lifestyles with Dr. Gary  Small, Direc­tor of UCLA’s Mem­ory Clin­ic and Cen­ter on Aging, and author of The Mem­ory Bible. You can learn more about his book  Here, and learn more about upcom­ing Brain Fit­ness Q&A Ses­sions Here. Perhaps…

Read More