Update: Let’s transform brain health from “suffer-in-silence” to “let-me-take-control”

Time for our Sep­tem­ber 2014 e‑newsletter, fea­tur­ing a wealth of insights  and inno­va­tions reports…including four thought-pro­­vok­ing inter­views with Spon­sors of the 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Octo­ber 28–30th). Enjoy! New per­spec­tives at the fron­tier of Brain, Health & Inno­va­tion: Bar­bara Arrow­smith Young: Every kid should prac­tice stress reduc­tion and tar­get­ed cog­ni­tive exer­cis­es at school Michael Meagher (Cog­nic­i­ti): Let’s trans­form brain…

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Smart pills as cognitive enhancement? Let’s first monitor negative cognitive side-effects of common medications

Mem­o­ry Loss Could Be The Fault Of Your Meds, Not Your Age (Inter­na­tion­al Busi­ness Times): “Mem­o­ry loss isn’t always an inevitable sign of get­ting old – in some cas­es, com­mon med­ica­tions that seniors take to treat insom­nia, anx­i­ety, or even aller­gies could be to blame…Tannenbaum and her col­leagues recent­ly inves­ti­gat­ed what kinds of med­ica­tion are most…

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The State of Personalized Medicine: The Role of Biomarkers

(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…

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New Series on Personalized Medicine and the Brain (PMWC 2012)

On aver­age, the med­ica­tions pre­scribed for brain-relat­ed con­di­tions ben­e­fit approx­i­mate­ly 50% of patients.  But which 50%?.” “We need unam­bigu­ous bio­mark­ers that are clin­i­cal­ly rel­e­vant and scal­able at rea­son­able cost. They already exist in Can­cer.   But they do not yet exist in the Brain.” What may change that?

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A Multi-Pronged Approach to Brain Health

Try eat­ing food with one chop stick. It is pos­si­ble, for cer­tain types of food. But prob­a­bly not the best approach. Let’s now talk brain health. Dr. Lar­ry McCleary is a for­mer act­ing Chief of Pedi­atric Neu­ro­surgery at Den­ver Chil­dren’s Hos­pi­tal, and author of the The Brain Trust Pro­gram (Perigee Trade, 2007). He agreed to help…

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Brains Way Smarter Than Ours (and yours, probably)

Roundup of recent arti­cles: 1) Awards ‑Very smart brains: Fun Slate arti­cle, Sev­en Inge­nious Rules: How to become a MacArthur genius, once the 24 new MacArthur Fel­lows were announced (Dear read­er: if you are a past, present or future win­ner, please for­give me for the title). ‑The Tech Muse­um of Inno­va­tion Announces 2007 Awards (we had…

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