Gaiam

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Time for Sharp­Brains’ August 2014 e‑newsletter, fea­tur­ing a wealth of insights, sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy reports…and this brain teas­er to exer­cise your men­tal rota­tion abil­i­ties. Enjoy!

New trends:

• How to incor­po­rate mind­ful­ness into psychotherapy
• Chal­leng­ing the out­dat­ed “fixed brain” dog­ma, the cog­ni­tive train­ing mar­ket keeps growing
• Increased aware­ness and use of cog­ni­tive assess­ments seen as demen­tia-relat­ed pri­or­i­ties by RAND pol­i­cy brief
• Play­ing table ten­nis to enhance men­tal health
• Beau­ty in and out: Brain train­ing work­shop @ Estée Lauder

New research:

• Use of methylphenidate-based ADHD med­ica­tion increas­es the risk of heart problems
• Why brain train­ing needs to be bet­ter tar­get­ed, and more wide­ly available
• To treat depres­sion, we will like­ly com­bine neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty-based brain train­ing games with antidepressants
• To pre­serve if not enhance intel­li­gence, work on speed of infor­ma­tion processing

New tech­nol­o­gy:

• Philips and Accen­ture devel­op ALS care proof of con­cept on top of Emo­tiv brain wave headset
• Gaiam and Reebok enter­ing men­tal fit­ness mar­ket via Inter­aX­on Muse partnerships
• The men­tal health screen­ings of the future, as hint­ed by Ellie the vir­tu­al therapist

Final­ly, we encour­age you to check out the excel­lent Agen­da for the 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Octo­ber 28–30th, 2014). To chair the ses­sions, we now count on experts such as Dr. Michael O’Donnell, Edi­tor-In-Chief of the Amer­i­can Jour­nal of Health Pro­mo­tion, Zack Lynch, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of the Neu­rotech­nol­ogy Indus­try Orga­ni­za­tion, James Cavuo­to, Edi­tor and Pub­lisher at Neu­rotech Reports, and jour­nal­ists such as Patri­cia Marx, Staff Writer at The New York­er and Maseena Ziegler, Author and Forbes Contributor. 

Have a great month of September!