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Update: Meditation-based mental training can lead to clear –yet surprisingly varied– cognitive and emotional benefits

July 31, 2018 by SharpBrains

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Dear read­er,

Time for Sharp­Brains month­ly e‑newsletter, dis­cussing lat­est think­ing, research and tools for life­long brain health and men­tal health.

Enjoy!

New thinking:

  • Study finds clear–yet sur­pris­ing­ly different–benefits in 3 types of med­i­ta­tion-based men­tal training
  • Tech­nol­o­gy and the Cog­ni­tion Crisis
  • Think twice before tak­ing Ader­all for cog­ni­tive enhance­ment: It may actu­al­ly impair work­ing mem­o­ry and oth­er cog­ni­tive abilities

New research:

  • Prac­tice effect due to repeat­ed test­ing can delay detec­tion of cog­ni­tive impair­ment and dementia
  • Meta-analy­sis finds sus­tained ben­e­fits of neu­ro­feed­back for kids with ADHD
  • One in eight chil­dren in India aged 2–9 may have neu­rode­vel­op­men­tal disorders

New tools:

  • Per­spec­tive: How brain train­ing games could help patients with Huntington’s disease
  • Sanofi Ven­tures leads $17M invest­ment in Click Ther­a­peu­tics, final­ist @ 2017 Brain­no­va­tions Pitch Contest
  • Save the Date for 2018 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: Invest­ing in Brain Health for All (Decem­ber 4–6th)

 

Last but not least, we invite you try these 25 brain teasers and games when you have some down­time dur­ing the sum­mer — fas­ci­nat­ing, aren’t they?

Have a great month of August,

 

The Sharp­Brains Team

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Filed Under: Attention & ADD/ADHD, Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: aderall, Brain Teasers, Brain-health, cognition, cognitive-enhancement, meditation, Mental-Health, mental-training, technology

Study finds clear–yet surprisingly different–benefits in 3 types of meditation-based mental training

July 11, 2018 by Greater Good Science Center

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As cit­i­zens of the 21st cen­tu­ry, we face many prob­lems that come with an indus­tri­al­ized and glob­al­ized world. I’m not a lawyer or a politi­cian, but a psy­chol­o­gist and neu­ro­sci­en­tist. So research on how to train help­ful men­tal and social capac­i­ties is my way to con­tribute to a more healthy, com­mu­nal, and coop­er­a­tive civilization.

For the past five years, that research has tak­en the form of the ReSource Project, one of the longest and most com­pre­hen­sive stud­ies on the effects of med­i­ta­tion-based men­tal train­ing to date. Lots of research treats the con­cept of med­i­ta­tion as a sin­gle prac­tice, when in fact med­i­ta­tion encom­pass­es a diver­si­ty of men­tal prac­tices that train dif­fer­ent skills and dif­fer­ent parts of the brain. Our goal was to study the spe­cif­ic effects of [Read more…] about Study finds clear–yet sur­pris­ing­ly different–benefits in 3 types of med­i­ta­tion-based men­tal training

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: affective, attention, behavior, brain, cognitive, cognitive-abilities, compassion, higher-level, meditation, meditation-based, mental-training, mindfulness, Psychology, ReSource Project, social

Nike launches mental training app to help soccer players win the mental game

June 16, 2016 by SharpBrains

nike-pro-geniusNike Moves into Brain Train­ing with Launch of Pro Genius (Cre­ativ­i­ty):

“Nike has made its first move into the world of men­tal train­ing with the launch of Pro Genius, a series of tools and tech­niques designed to help young soc­cer play­ers devel­op the men­tal side of their game [Read more…] about Nike launch­es men­tal train­ing app to help soc­cer play­ers win the men­tal game

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Peak Performance, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: AKQA, athletes, athletic performance, brain app, Brain-games, Brain-Training, brain-training-app, mental game, mental-training, Nike+, Pro Genius, soccer

eNewsletter: Aerobic and mental training, combined, can significantly improve brain and cognitive health

February 25, 2016 by SharpBrains

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Time for a new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains’ eNewslet­ter, cov­er­ing a range of brain, health and inno­va­tion top­ics. Enjoy!

New thinking:

  • What Every­one Should Know About Stress, Brain Health, and Dance
  • Vir­tu­al “Brain Games” round­table: Why we can–and should–train our brains
  • Why shouldn’t behav­ioral ther­a­py, instead of med­ica­tion, be first-line treat­ment for ADHD?
  • Iden­ti­fy­ing and treat­ing the brain roots of men­tal illness

New research:

  • Com­bin­ing aer­o­bic and men­tal train­ing can sig­nif­i­cant­ly improve brain and cog­ni­tive health
  • Neu­ro­sci­en­tists pin­point the brain and per­for­mance impact of a (per­ceived) judg­men­tal audience
  • A per­son­al­ized brain fit­ness pro­gram can help grow hip­pocam­pal vol­ume and improve brain function
  • Hear­ing aids, by reduc­ing cog­ni­tive load, can improve brain func­tion in per­sons with hear­ing loss
  • Brain scans may pre­dict depres­sion risk bet­ter than clin­i­cal rat­ing scales

New tools:

  • Neu­rotech + Vir­tu­al Real­i­ty firm Mind­Maze rais­es $100m
  • Neu­ro­track rais­es $6.5m to mar­ket dig­i­tal cog­ni­tive assess­ment and intervention
  • Brain mod­el­ling plat­forms, such as Baycrest’s Vir­tu­al Brain, to accel­er­ate brain health innovation
  • Tar­get­ed neu­rotech­nol­o­gy to augment–perhaps even take over–neuropharmacology

And, a couple of fun brain teasers:

  • Does per­cep­tion equal real­i­ty? Try this quick opti­cal illusion
  • Test your men­tal self-rota­tion skills with this quick brainteaser

 

Have a great month of March!

The Sharp­Brains Team

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: brain, Brain Teasers, Brain-Fitness, Brain-games, Brain-health, cognitive-health, mental-training, neurotech, Neurotechnology, therapy

Study: Combining aerobic and mental training can significantly improve mental and cognitive health

February 9, 2016 by SharpBrains

mental_physical_training(Edi­tor’s Note: Hat tip to co-author Tj Shors for bring­ing this fas­ci­nat­ing new study to our attention)

“It is wide­ly accept­ed that aer­o­bic exer­cise and med­i­ta­tion train­ing are use­ful behav­ioral ther­a­pies for reme­di­at­ing clin­i­cal symp­toms of depres­sion. How­ev­er, no study to date has assessed the com­bined effects of the two behav­ioral inter­ven­tions. Here, we present data indi­cat­ing that [Read more…] about Study: Com­bin­ing aer­o­bic and men­tal train­ing can sig­nif­i­cant­ly improve men­tal and cog­ni­tive health

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: adult-brain, aerobic-exercise, behavioral-therapies, clinical symptoms, cognitive-health, depression, Major Depressive Disorder, meditation, Mental-Health, mental-training, Neurogenesis, psychiatry, Psychotherapy, psychotropic-medications

Study: Aerobic exercise improves memory, brain function

November 13, 2013 by SharpBrains

exercise and brainStudy Finds Aer­o­bic Exer­cise Improves Mem­o­ry, Brain Func­tion and Phys­i­cal Fit­ness (press release):

  • “A new study con­duct­ed by researchers at the Cen­ter for Brain­Health at The Uni­ver­si­ty of Texas at Dal­las pub­lished online in the open-access jour­nal Fron­tiers in Aging Neu­ro­science found that engag­ing in a phys­i­cal exer­cise reg­i­men helps healthy aging adults improve their mem­o­ry, brain health and phys­i­cal fit­ness. [Read more…] about Study: Aer­o­bic exer­cise improves mem­o­ry, brain function

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: aging, brain blood flow, brain-function, cognition, memory, mental-exercise, mental-training, MRI, Physical-Fitness

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