Attention: Why do SuperAgers Maintain Memory and a Thick Cortex?

By Dr. Pascale Michelon | September 20, 2012

Are brain aging and cog­ni­tive decline ineluctable? Maybe not. Grow­ing research is help­ing iden­ti­fy “Super­Agers” whose brains at 80+ appear as young as the brains of peo­ple in their 50s. What the lat­est Super­Agers study found In a recent paper, researchers defined Super­Agers as peo­ple over 80 whose mem­o­ry per­for­mance was at least as good as aver­age 50- to…

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Study: MRI scan technicians can experience negative neurocognitive effects

By SharpBrains | September 11, 2012

MRI work­ers expe­ri­ence tran­sient neu­rocog­ni­tive effects (News Med­ical): “Indi­vid­u­als work­ing in the vicin­i­ty of mag­net­ic res­o­nance imag­ing (MRI) machines may expe­ri­ence tran­sient neu­rocog­ni­tive effects when mov­ing their heads, research demonstrates…Study par­tic­i­pants who com­plet­ed standardized 

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Will EEG Data Analysis Help Diagnose Autism?

By SharpBrains | June 28, 2012

Com­put­er analy­sis of EEG pat­terns sug­gests a poten­tial diag­nos­tic test for autism (Eure­ka Sci­ence News): “Wide­ly avail­able EEG test­ing can dis­tin­guish chil­dren with autism from neu­rotyp­i­cal chil­dren as ear­ly as age 2, finds a study from Boston Chil­dren’s Hos­pi­tal. The study is the largest, most rig­or­ous study to date to inves­ti­gate EEGs as a poten­tial diagnostic…

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Research on ‘Chemo Brain’: MRI Shows Brain Changes After Chemotherapy

By SharpBrains | November 17, 2011 |

‘Chemo Brain’: MRI Shows Brain Changes After Chemother­a­py (Med­scape): — “Breast can­cer sur­vivors who have been treat­ed with chemother­a­py show sig­nif­i­cant changes in brain activ­i­ty, mea­sured by func­tion­al mag­net­ic res­o­nance imag­ing (fMRI), accord­ing to a study pub­lished in the Novem­ber issue of the Archives of Neu­rol­o­gy.” — “The find­ing val­i­dates patients’ claims of reduced cog­ni­tive func­tion after…

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Memory Problems? Perhaps you are Multi-tasking

By Dr. Bill Klemm | October 29, 2008 |

Today’s kids are into mul­ti-task­ing. This is the gen­er­a­tion hooked on iPods, IM’ing, video games — not to men­tion TV! Many peo­ple in my gen­er­a­tion think it is won­der­ful that kids can do all these things simul­ta­ne­ous­ly and are impressed with their com­pe­tence. Well, as a teacher of such kids when they reach col­lege, I…

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Understanding Brain Imaging

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 11, 2008 |

Daniel Lende and Greg Downey run the though-pro­­vok­ing Neu­roan­thro­pol­o­gy blog. Daniel also teach­es a class at Uni­ver­si­ty of Notre Dame, and he asked his stu­dents to sub­mit group-based blog posts in lieu of the tra­di­tion­al final essays. He explains more on Why A Final Essay When We Can Do This?. Below you have a spectacular…

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