Tara Thiagarajan, Founder of Brainnovations Winner Sapien Labs, on building a global platform for brain research that truly captures the diversity of humanity

___ What sur­prised you the most from the Judges’ ques­tions and feed­back dur­ing the Brain­no­va­tions Pitch Con­test? I was pleas­ant­ly sur­prised to see the sig­nif­i­cant range and depth of knowl­edge shown by the judg­ing pan­el, lead­ing to very spe­cif­ic and use­ful ques­tions around the key chal­lenges to build our glob­al research plat­form. In a nutshell,…

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Monthly e‑newsletter: Do you actually like that song or do you merely think you do?

Time for Sharp­Brains’ Novem­ber e‑newsletter, explor­ing the fron­tiers in applied brain sci­ence and start­ing this time with a fas­ci­nat­ing study and ini­tia­tive. New think­ing Neu­roin­for­mat­ics meets music: Do you actu­al­ly like that song or do you mere­ly think you do? Sur­vey: Par­ents view Exer­cise as more effec­tive than Pre­scrip­tion Med­ica­tions to treat chil­dren with ADHD Top Resources for…

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5 Must-Read Articles, and an Online Course, to Help Children with ADHD

—– Giv­en the ongo­ing changes and con­tro­ver­sies sur­round­ing ADHD diag­no­sis and treat­ment, let us high­light 5 key arti­cles writ­ten by Duke Uni­ver­si­ty’s Dr. David Rabin­er to sum­ma­rize recent sci­en­tif­ic find­ings and their impli­ca­tions, plus a very rel­e­vant online course to help par­ents and pro­fes­sion­als help chil­dren with ADHD. 1. Study finds large gaps between research and practice…

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