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Less shrink­age: This is your aging brain on the Mediter­ranean diet (Los Ange­les Times):

“The aging brain is a shrink­ing brain, and a shrink­ing brain is, gen­er­al­ly speak­ing, a brain whose per­for­mance and reac­tion time are declin­ing: That is a harsh real­i­ty of grow­ing old­er.

But new research shows that brain shrink­age is less pro­nounced in old­er folks whose diets Read the rest of this entry »

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Time for Sharp­Brains’ May e‑newsletter, wrap­ping up this month’s key brain and mind stud­ies, per­va­sive neu­rotech­nol­ogy news, and brain fit­ness insights.

New research:

• To improve mem­o­ry and think­ing skills, try the Mediter­ranean diet with added olive oil and nuts
• Sports-relat­ed con­cus­sions can impact aca­d­e­m­ic per­for­mance, espe­cial­ly in high school
• Sci­en­tists issue a call to action for TBI patients to ben­e­fit from lat­est neu­ro­science find­ings
• When fly­ing to Mars, make sure to mon­i­tor and enhance brain func­tion (radi­a­tion expo­sure can hurt per­for­mance)

New tools:

• Grow­ing demand for prod­ucts to enhance cog­ni­tion and mem­o­ry
• Will con­sumer-led tran­scra­nial direct cur­rent stim­u­la­tion rev­o­lu­tion­ize or hurt men­tal health?
• Can bet­ter cog­ni­tive test­ing plat­forms accel­er­ate pharma’s Alzheimer’s research and devel­op­ment efforts?

New report on innovation & IP:

• In the news: How non-inva­sive neu­rotech­nol­o­gy will enhance work and life
• Info­graph­ic on Per­va­sive Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy: A Ground­break­ing Analy­sis of 10,000+ Patent Fil­ings
• Nielsen: #1 Hold­er of Per­va­sive Neu­rotech Intel­lec­tu­al Prop­er­ty
• Advanced Neu­ro­mod­u­la­tion Sys­tems (St Jude Med­ical): #2 Hold­er of Per­va­sive Neu­rotech IP
• Medtron­ic ranked #3 Hold­er of Per­va­sive Neu­rotech IP
• Microsoft ranked #4 Hold­er of Per­va­sive Neu­rotech IP

Have a great month of June!

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Mediter­ranean diet may help coun­ter­act age-relat­ed declines in mem­o­ry and think­ing skills (Har­vard Health Blog):

“A new study in this week’s JAMA Inter­nal Med­i­cine sug­gests that eat­ing a Mediter­ranean-style diet enhanced with extra-vir­gin olive oil or nuts is good for your mind as well as your heart. Read the rest of this entry »

Accord­ing to a new study, the pop­u­la­tion with Alzheimer’s Dis­ease in the US will triple by 2050: from 4.7 mil­lions in 2010 to 13.8 mil­lions. This empha­sizes the urgent need for more research to find pre­ven­tive mea­sures, and for more enlight­ened pub­lic health ini­tia­tives and indi­vid­ual lifestyles designed to decrease demen­tia risks and delay onset of symp­toms.

Between 1993 and 2011, researchers fol­lowed more than 10,000 indi­vid­u­als 65 and old­er. Par­tic­i­pants were inter­viewed and assessed for demen­tia every three years. Read the rest of this entry »