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To address the upcoming Alzheimer’s “epidemic”, let’s approach 2016 with these 4 Pillars of Alzheimer’s Prevention

December 28, 2015 by Dr. Dharma Singh Khalsa @ Alzheimer's Research & Prevention Foundation

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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 going into drug research, which, while ongo­ing, has thus far has been elusive.

This focus entire­ly on drugs may be chang­ing how­ev­er, as the [Read more…] about To address the upcom­ing Alzheimer’s “epi­dem­ic”, let’s approach 2016 with these 4 Pil­lars of Alzheimer’s Prevention

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: aging, Alzheimer-disease, Alzheimers-Prevention, brain, Brain-health, cognitive, cognitive-function, Cognitive-impairment, Cognitive-Training, diabetes, diet, health care, heart-disease, High-blood-pressure, meditation, mental-fitness, Physical-Fitness, slow cognitive decline, spiritual fitness, stress-management

Time is over for “one size fits all” dementia treatments. Next: How to best integrate non-pharmacologic and pharmacologic approaches

March 10, 2015 by SharpBrains

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Time to ‘just say no’ to behav­ior-calm­ing drugs for Alzheimer patients? Experts say yes (Med­ical Xpress):

“Doc­tors write mil­lions of pre­scrip­tions a year for drugs to calm the behav­ior of peo­ple with Alzheimer’s dis­ease and oth­er types of demen­tia. But non-drug approach­es actu­al­ly work bet­ter, and car­ry far few­er risks, experts con­clude in a new report.

In fact, non-drug approach­es should be the first choice for treat­ing demen­tia patients’ com­mon symp­toms such as [Read more…] about Time is over for “one size fits all” demen­tia treat­ments. Next: How to best inte­grate non-phar­ma­co­log­ic and phar­ma­co­log­ic approaches

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: Alzheimers-disease, antidepressants, antipsychotics, anxiety, dementia, dementia care, depression, health care, neurobiological, non-pharmacologic, pharmacologic, sleep problems

Trend: Driving health innovation via patient engagement and market-driven “consumerism”

November 11, 2014 by SharpBrains

Dr.-Joseph-HahnRetir­ing founder of Cleve­land Clin­ic Inno­va­tions talks tech, Oba­macare and deep brain stim­u­la­tion (Med­C­i­ty News):

“…When I start­ed my career at the Clin­ic, doc­tors were the author­i­ty fig­ure and what­ev­er was said was tak­en as appro­pri­ate. It has been long over­due for patients to get more involved in [Read more…] about Trend: Dri­ving health inno­va­tion via patient engage­ment and mar­ket-dri­ven “con­sumerism”

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Filed Under: Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Brain-Fitness, Cleveland Clinic, consumerism, health care, health innovation, patient engagement

Under what conditions can mindfulness courses help health care workers manage stress and burnout?

July 10, 2014 by Greater Good Science Center

stressed_nurseMed­ical pro­fes­sion­als are bur­dened dai­ly with the pain and suf­fer­ing of patients. Many work long hours, and reg­u­lar­ly face stress­ful sit­u­a­tions. This bur­den does not come with­out con­se­quence: 60 per­cent of physi­cians report hav­ing expe­ri­enced burnout at some point in their careers.

Mind­ful­ness cours­es designed to help health care work­ers [Read more…] about Under what con­di­tions can mind­ful­ness cours­es help health care work­ers man­age stress and burnout?

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: burnout, depression, health care, medical-professionals, mindfulness, mindfulness course, Mindfulness-Based-Stress-Reduction, psychologists, Stress

New SharpBrains Summit Partner: The Mars Discovery District

August 2, 2013 by SharpBrains

mars discoveryWe’re hap­py to count on the sup­port from MaRS Dis­cov­ery Dis­trict, a large scale, mis­sion dri­ven inno­va­tion cen­tre locat­ed in Toron­to and net­worked across Ontario, focused on build­ing Canada’s next gen­er­a­tion of tech­nol­ogy com­pa­nies [Read more…] about New Sharp­Brains Sum­mit Part­ner: The Mars Dis­cov­ery District

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: clean-tech, digital media, health care, life sciences, MaRS, mars discovery district, next generation companies, social business

The State of Personalized Medicine: The Role of Biomarkers

February 13, 2012 by Dr. Evian Gordon

(Edi­tor’s Note: this is Part 1 of the new 3‑part series writ­ten by Dr. Evian Gor­don draw­ing from his par­tic­i­pa­tion at the Per­son­al­ized Med­i­cine World Con­gress on Jan­u­ary, 23, 2012 at Stan­ford University.)

On aver­age, the med­ica­tions pre­scribed for brain-relat­ed con­di­tions ben­e­fit approx­i­mate­ly 50% of patients. But which 50%?

Per­son­al­ized Med­i­cine seeks to move away from the cur­rent “1 size fits all, tri­al and error” approach that has been nec­es­sary because of a lack of evi­dence. Instead, it focus­es on [Read more…] about The State of Per­son­al­ized Med­i­cine: The Role of Biomarkers

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: biomarkers, brain, Brain-health, breast cancer, Chronic Myloid Leukemia, Erbitux, FDA, Gleevac, Gleevec, health care, Herceptin, Integrative Neuroscience, medications, Melanoma, Mental-Health, Personalized Medicine Coalition, Personalized Medicine World Congress, personalized-medicine, psychiatry, Tarceva, Vectibix, Warfarin, Xalkori, Zelboraf

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