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May e‑newsletter: MIT Solve launches Brain Health Challenge, asking “How can every person improve their brain health and mental resilience?”

May 25, 2017 by SharpBrains

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Time for Sharp­Brains’ May e‑newsletter, high­light­ing what’s new in brain health and men­tal per­for­mance, and fea­tur­ing a very rel­e­vant MIT ini­tia­tive and a thought-pro­vok­ing study on the “Cog­ni­tive Divide.”

New thinking

  • MIT Solve launch­es Brain Health Chal­lenge: How can every per­son improve their brain health and men­tal resilience?
  • Men­tal Health Inno­va­tion and Dr. Tom Insel: from the NIMH to Google/ Ver­i­ly Life Sci­ences to Start­up Mindstrong
  • Five rea­sons the future of brain enhance­ment is dig­i­tal, per­va­sive and (hope­ful­ly) bright (relat­ed slides here)
  • Eight research teams work­ing with DARPA to dis­cov­er best ways to acti­vate neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty and accel­er­ate learning
  • Researchers pro­pose four “neu­ror­ights” to har­ness neu­rotech­nol­o­gy for good: cog­ni­tive lib­er­ty, men­tal pri­va­cy, men­tal integri­ty, and psy­cho­log­i­cal continuity

 

New research

  • Is moder­ni­ty lead­ing to a grow­ing Cog­ni­tive Divide?
  • Phys­i­cal­ly-active video games (‘exergames’) boost cog­ni­tion more than phys­i­cal activ­i­ty alone
  • Com­mon med­ica­tion treat­ments for PTSD can increase the risk of devel­op­ing dementia
  • Study iden­ti­fies brain cir­cuits enabling four-year-olds to “put them­selves in oth­er people’s shoes”

 

New tools

  • Want a music sys­tem that lifts you up when you’re feel­ing down? Meet this audio head­set with bio-sig­nal sen­sors (Neu­roSky patent)
  • Eval­u­at­ing neur­al respons­es via EEG brain data in vir­tu­al real­i­ty envi­ron­ments (Nielsen patent)
  • Con­nect­ing car­di­o­log­i­cal and neu­ro­log­i­cal health (Medtron­ic patent)
  • Start-up Aira rais­es $12M, show­ing the way for cog­ni­tive sci­ence and arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence (AI) to improve the lives of blind and low vision individuals

 

Have a great month of June and, for those based in the US, a great Memo­r­i­al Day weekend,

 

The Sharp­Brains Team

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, SharpBrains Monthly eNewsletter, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Aira, artificial intelligence, Brain Health Challenge, brain-enhancement, Brain-health, cognitive-performance, DARPA, digital, Jazz Ventures, Learning, Medtronic, mental resilience, mental-performance, Mindstrong, MIT, MIT Solve, neuroplasticity, neurorights, NeuroSky, Nielsen, NIMH, Tom Insel

Cognitive enhancement at the edge: The US Navy tests neuro-priming and other non-pharmacological aids to boost cognition and performance

April 10, 2017 by SharpBrains

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Super SEALs: Elite Units Pur­sue Brain-Stim­u­lat­ing Tech­nolo­gies (Military.com):

“At a con­fer­ence near Wash­ing­ton, D.C., in Feb­ru­ary, the com­man­der of all Navy spe­cial oper­a­tions units made an unusu­al request to indus­try: Devel­op and demon­strate tech­nolo­gies that offer “cog­ni­tive enhance­ment” capa­bil­i­ties to boost his elite forces’ men­tal and phys­i­cal per­for­mance [Read more…] about Cog­ni­tive enhance­ment at the edge: The US Navy tests neu­ro-prim­ing and oth­er non-phar­ma­co­log­i­cal aids to boost cog­ni­tion and performance

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Filed Under: Peak Performance, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: biometric, boost cognition, boost performance, brain-stimulation, caffeine, cognitive-enhancement, electrical stimulation, Halo Neuroscience, meditation, mental-performance, Navy, neuro-priming, transcranial direct-current brain stimulation

Update: To honor Brain Awareness Week 2017, let’s highlight 10 Key Facts To Harness Neuroplasticity And Improve Brain Fitness

March 23, 2017 by SharpBrains

– Giant neu­ron iden­ti­fied in mouse brain via nov­el brain imag­ing tech­nique. Study linked below.

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Last week was Brain Aware­ness Week, so let’s first of all dis­cuss these 10 Key Facts to Har­ness Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty & Improve Brain Fit­ness com­ing from the hun­dreds of sci­en­tif­ic and med­ical stud­ies we ana­lyzed to pre­pare the book The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness: How to Improve Brain Health and Per­for­mance at Any Age.

And here’s the rest of Sharp­Brains’ e‑newsletter explor­ing the lat­est in brain health and men­tal performance.

New research:

  • Mind­ful­ness train­ing for teach­ers can result in a bet­ter learn­ing envi­ron­ment for students
  • Rates of ADHD diag­no­sis and med­ica­tion treat­ment con­tin­ue to increase substantially
  • New brain imag­ing meth­ods help detect giant, super­con­nect­ed neu­rons such as this one (in a mouse’s brain)

New thinking:

  • Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty as seen by one of its ear­li­est sci­en­tif­ic pro­po­nents: Neu­ro­science pio­neer San­ti­a­go Ramón y Cajal
  • Cana­di­an teacher Mag­gie Mac­Don­nell wins annu­al $1M Glob­al Teacher Prize
  • 100 new­ly rec­og­nized Young Glob­al Lead­ers train their brains (and oth­ers’) by tack­ling com­plex chal­lenges with inno­v­a­tive approaches

New tools (via SharpBrains’ analysis of neurotech patents):

  • The future of per­son­al­ized brain stim­u­la­tion via enhanced cog­ni­tive-emo­tive profiles
  • Tai­lor­ing com­put­ing expe­ri­ence based on user’s men­tal state and qual­i­ty of attention
  • Treat­ing sleep-relat­ed breath­ing conditions–such as sleep apnea–via EEG brain­wave analysis
  • Facil­i­tat­ing clin­i­cal treat­ments via Tran­scra­nial Mag­net­ic Stim­u­la­tion (TMS)

 

Final­ly, here’s a brain teas­er to test your pat­tern recog­ni­tion and oth­er cog­ni­tive skills: The Emp­ty Tri­an­gle.

 

Have a nice Spring!

 

The Sharp­Brains Team

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Filed Under: Brain Teasers, Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: adhd, Brain-Fitness, Brain-health, Brain-Imaging, brain-performance, brain-stimulation, brain-teaser, brainwave, cognitive-ability, cognitive-skills, EEG, Learning, mental state, mental-performance, mindfulness, neuroplasticity, TMS, training

Dr. Dharma Singh Khalsa (Alzheimer’s Research & Prevention Foundation): “You’re not a prisoner of your DNA”

September 30, 2014 by Alvaro Fernandez

Dhar­ma Singh Khal­sa, M.D.

What is your cur­rent job title and orga­ni­za­tion, and what excites you the most about work­ing there?
As the Found­ing Pres­i­dent and Med­ical Direc­tor at the Alzheimer’s Research and Pre­ven­tion Foun­da­tion for over 20 years, I am more excit­ed than ever about the pos­si­bil­i­ties for enhanced men­tal per­for­mance and brain longevi­ty for every­one. [Read more…] about Dr. Dhar­ma Singh Khal­sa (Alzheimer’s Research & Pre­ven­tion Foun­da­tion): “You’re not a pris­on­er of your DNA”

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: Alzheimers-disease, brain-enhancement, Brain-Fitness, brain-longevity, chronic-stress, DNA, hippocampus, improve-brain-function, Kirtan-Kriya, lifestyle modification, meditation, mental-performance, yoga

Finally, growing awareness of chemotherapy-induced cognitive deficits

May 29, 2014 by SharpBrains

fog brainBrain activ­i­ty changes seen after chemo (Reuters):

“For some women with breast can­cer, changes in brain activ­i­ty while mul­ti­task­ing could explain “chemo brain” – reduced men­tal func­tion­ing that many expe­ri­ence after chemother­a­py, Bel­gian researchers say. “Cog­ni­tive com­plaints of peo­ple increase with chemother­a­py and [Read more…] about Final­ly, grow­ing aware­ness of chemother­a­py-induced cog­ni­tive deficits

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: brain-activity, breast cancer, chemo-brain, chemotherapy, cognitive complaints, cognitive risks, mental-performance, multitasking

Discuss The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness

September 10, 2009 by Alvaro Fernandez

Quick note: we just start­ed a new Face­book group to dis­cuss brain fit­ness, cog­ni­tive health and men­tal per­for­mance top­ics in gen­er­al and The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness in particular.

Care to exer­cise your brain by shar­ing your thoughts? Please join us Here!

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: book, brain, Brain-Fitness, brain-fitness-guide, cognitive-health, facebook-brain-fitness, facebook-group, mental-performance

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