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Let’s improve Brain Health Literacy during Brain Awareness Week 2018

March 2, 2018 by Alvaro Fernandez

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Please join us in get­ting ready to cel­e­brate Brain Aware­ness Week 2018 (March 12–18th), the annu­al glob­al cam­paign orga­nized by the Dana Foun­da­tion to increase pub­lic aware­ness about the progress and ben­e­fits of brain research.

To learn about activ­i­ties in your area, please vis­it BAW’s Inter­na­tion­al Cal­en­dar of events.

And remem­ber you don’t need to trav­el any­where to improve your brain health lit­er­a­cy and to adopt smarter, brain-friend­ly habits. Here are ten use­ful facts and tips com­ing from the hun­dreds of sci­en­tif­ic stud­ies ana­lyzed to pre­pare the book The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness: How to Improve Brain Health and Per­for­mance at Any Age:

1. Genes do not deter­mine the fate of our brains. As evi­denced by life­long neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty, our lifestyles are even more impor­tant than our genes in shap­ing how our brains grow and our minds evolve. [Read more…] about Let’s improve Brain Health Lit­er­a­cy dur­ing Brain Aware­ness Week 2018

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: baw18, brain, Brain Teasers, Brain-Fitness, Brain-health, Brain-Plasticity, brain-supplements, brain-teaser, brains, cognitive, exercise, facts, health, improve-brain-health, Lifelong Neuroplasticity, literacy, mental-fitness, neuroplasticity, sharpbrains

NHS Choices helps improve brain health and science literacy by reporting findings in context — as seen in this brain training & schizophrenia example

February 13, 2018 by SharpBrains

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Video game-based ‘brain train­ing’ may help peo­ple with schiz­o­phre­nia (NHS Choices):

“Peo­ple with schiz­o­phre­nia can be trained by play­ing a video game to con­trol the part of the brain linked to ver­bal hal­lu­ci­na­tions,” BBC News reports [Read more…] about NHS Choic­es helps improve brain health and sci­ence lit­er­a­cy by report­ing find­ings in con­text — as seen in this brain train­ing & schiz­o­phre­nia example

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: auditory, auditory hallucinations, Brain-Training, fMRI, fMRI neurofeedback, hallucinations, literacy, neurocognitive, Neurofeedback, neuroimaging, NHS, NHS Choices, schizophrenia, video-game

How can we empower communities via better brain health tools and literacy?

July 12, 2017 by SharpBrains

Empow­er com­mu­ni­ties with bet­ter brain health tools and lit­er­a­cy from Sharp­Brains

This pre­sen­ta­tion took place at the 2016 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Decem­ber 6–8th, 2016).

–> Learn more about the upcom­ing 2017 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: Brain Enhance­ment in the Dig­i­tal Age (Decem­ber 5–7th, 2017). The 2017 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit will fea­ture over thir­ty of the world’s top experts and inno­va­tors work­ing on ways to enhance our brain health and per­for­mance in light of emerg­ing neu­ro­science and dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies. Addi­tion­al­ly, and for the first time, it will host a Brainnova­tions Pitch Con­test to fos­ter col­lab­o­ra­tive prob­lem-solv­ing between sci­en­tists, prac­ti­tion­ers, tech­nol­o­gists and entrepreneurs.

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: brain health literacy, Brain-health, literacy

Neuroimaging study finds extensive brain rewiring–in just six months–among illiterate adults learning to read and write

June 8, 2017 by SharpBrains

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Learn­ing to read and write rewires adult brain in six months (New Scientist):

“Learn­ing to read can have pro­found effects on the wiring of the adult brain – even in regions that aren’t usu­al­ly asso­ci­at­ed with read­ing and writing.

That’s what Michael Skei­de of the Max Planck Insti­tute for Human Cog­ni­tive and Brain Sci­ences in Leipzig, Ger­many, and his col­leagues found when they taught a group of illit­er­ate adults in rur­al India to read and write [Read more…] about Neu­roimag­ing study finds exten­sive brain rewiring–in just six months–among illit­er­ate adults learn­ing to read and write

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: adult-brain, brain regions, Brain-Plasticity, fMRI, functional magnetic resonance imaging, illiterate, India, literacy, neurobiological, neuroplastic changes, neuroplasticity, reading, rewire-brain

Empowering communities with better brain health tools and literacy

December 22, 2016 by SharpBrains

Empow­er com­mu­ni­ties with bet­ter brain health tools and lit­er­a­cy from Sharp­Brains

What role should com­mu­ni­ty and care­givers play in brain health and men­tal health, and how can tech­nol­o­gy aid their efforts–for exam­ple in shar­ing rel­e­vant data with/ from doc­tors? How are we going to edu­cate and empow­er every­one with essen­tial knowl­edge and best practices?

  • Chair: Dr. Peter White­house, Pro­fes­sor of Neu­rol­o­gy at Case West­ern Reserve University
  • Dr. Eliz­a­beth Zelin­s­ki, Direc­tor of the Cen­ter for Dig­i­tal Aging at the Davis School of Gerontology
  • Michael Meagher, Pres­i­dent of Cogniciti
  • Dr. Neal Cohen, clin­i­cal psy­chol­o­gist at The Synapse System

These pre­sen­ta­tions took place at the 2016 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: Rein­vent­ing Brain Health in the Dig­i­tal Age (Decem­ber 6–8th, 2016).

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: brain literacy, Brain-health, caregivers, Cogniciti, gerontology, literacy, Mental-Health, neurology, synapse, technology

Empowering communities with better brain health tools and literacy

December 5, 2016 by SharpBrains

brain-health-literacy—–

We are look­ing for­ward to the 2016 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit start­ing tomor­row, Tues­day Decem­ber 6th!

40 amaz­ing speak­ers, 10+ ses­sions includ­ing the crit­i­cal and often over­looked need to Empow­er com­mu­ni­ties with bet­ter brain health tools and lit­er­a­cy – What role should com­mu­ni­ty and care­givers play in brain health and men­tal health, and how can tech­nol­o­gy aid their efforts–for exam­ple in shar­ing rel­e­vant data with/ from doc­tors? How are we going to edu­cate and empow­er every­one with essen­tial knowl­edge and best practices?

  • Chair: Dr. Peter White­house, Pro­fes­sor of Neu­rol­o­gy at Case West­ern Reserve University
  • Dr. Eliz­a­beth Zelin­s­ki, Direc­tor of the Cen­ter for Dig­i­tal Aging at the Davis School of Gerontology
  • Michael Meagher, Pres­i­dent of Cogniciti
  • Dr. Jen­ni Pacheco, Sci­en­tif­ic Pro­gram Man­ag­er at the Nation­al Insti­tute of Men­tal Health (NIMH)
  • Dr. Neal Cohen, clin­i­cal psy­chol­o­gist at The Synapse System

Learn more & Reg­is­ter Here (reg­is­tra­tion will close in just a few hours, so please hur­ry up if interested)

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: brain, Brain-health, Case-Western-Reserve-University, Cogniciti, gerontology, health, literacy, National-Institute-of-Mental-Health, synapse

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