Survey: Parents view Exercise as more effective than Prescription Medications to treat children with ADHD

By Dr. David Rabiner | November 17, 2017

Con­sid­er how research sup­port for ADHD treat­ments are typ­i­cal­ly estab­lished. The ‘gold-stan­­dard’ approach would be a ran­­dom­ized-con­trolled tri­al in which chil­dren with ADHD are ran­dom­ly assigned to the treat­ment or con­trol group. The treat­ment, what­ev­er it hap­pens to be, would be care­ful­ly imple­ment­ed in a research-based pro­to­col. If possible

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Are you familiar with these research findings and technologies revolutionizing Brain & Mental Health?

By SharpBrains | October 30, 2017

___________________________________ Try adding 3 and 8 in your head. That was easy. Now, try­ing adding 33 and 88. That was prob­a­bly more dif­fi­cult. Final­ly, try adding 333 and 888. Time for Sharp­Brains’ Octo­ber e‑newsletter, this time dis­cussing a range of research find­ings and tech­nolo­gies rev­o­lu­tion­iz­ing brain and men­tal health. New think­ing about cog­ni­tion, brain and mind: Study sug­gests the…

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Australian neurotech firm raises $4m to develop neurofeedback-based headband aimed at helping kids with autism relax and better engage

By SharpBrains | October 16, 2017

  Neu­rotech rais­es $4m for med­ical device (Busi­ness News West­ern Aus­tralia): “Med­ical tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­ny Neu­rotech Inter­na­tion­al has tapped investors for $4m to fund fur­ther devel­op­ment of its Mente Autism device…which uses neu­ro­feed­back tech­nol­o­gy to help chil­dren with autism spec­trum disorder.”

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5 Must-Read Articles, and an Online Course, to Help Children with ADHD

By SharpBrains | June 21, 2017 |

—– Giv­en the ongo­ing changes and con­tro­ver­sies sur­round­ing ADHD diag­no­sis and treat­ment, let us high­light 5 key arti­cles writ­ten by Duke Uni­ver­si­ty’s Dr. David Rabin­er to sum­ma­rize recent sci­en­tif­ic find­ings and their impli­ca­tions, plus a very rel­e­vant online course to help par­ents and pro­fes­sion­als help chil­dren with ADHD. 1. Study finds large gaps between research and practice…

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Augmenting physiotherapy via neurofeedback and neurostimulation: Key neurotechnology patent #43

By SharpBrains | April 25, 2017
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Today we are shar­ing a fas­ci­nat­ing patent from Medtron­ic.  (As men­tioned, we are fea­tur­ing 50 foun­da­tion­al Per­va­sive Neu­rotech patents, from old­er to new­er by issue date) U.S. Patent No. 8,121,694: Ther­a­py con­trol based on a patient move­ment state Assignee(s): Medtron­ic, Inc. Inventor(s): Gre­go­ry F. Mol­nar, Steven S. Gill, Kei­th A, Miesel, Mark S. Lent, Tim­o­thy J. Deni­son, Eric J.…

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