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Neuropsychology

Executive Functions in Health and Disease: New book to help integrate Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology

August 8, 2017 by Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg

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Neu­ro­science used to be the monop­oly of a few elite uni­ver­si­ties locat­ed in a hand­ful of coun­tries. Neu­ropsy­chol­o­gy used to be a quaint niche dis­ci­pline rel­a­tive­ly uncon­nect­ed to the larg­er world of neu­ro­science and con­tent in its meth­ods with paper-and-pen­cil tests. [Read more…] about Exec­u­tive Func­tions in Health and Dis­ease: New book to help inte­grate Cog­ni­tive Neu­ro­science and Neuropsychology

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: Alexander-Luria, clinical psychologists, cognition, cognitive-psychologists, disease, Executive-Functions, frontal-lobe, health, medical, neurologists, neuropsychologists, Neuropsychology, neuroscience, neuroscientist, prefrontal-cortex, psychiatric, Psychiatrists

5 trends shaping the future of brain enhancement and neuropsychology

May 9, 2017 by SharpBrains

Five rea­sons the future of brain enhance­ment is dig­i­tal, per­va­sive and (hope­ful­ly) bright from Sharp­Brains

Pre­sen­ta­tion by Alvaro Fer­nan­dez at the New York Neu­ropsy­chol­o­gy Group (NYNG) 2017 Annu­al Spring Con­fer­ence.

Descrip­tion: Hun­dreds of com­pa­nies around the globe–now includ­ing Elon Musk’s Neu­ralink and even Facebook–are research­ing and devel­op­ing new ways to help brain own­ers be smarter, sharp­er, and health­i­er. What explains this flur­ry of activ­i­ty, and where may it be head­ed? What are the oppor­tu­ni­ties and chal­lenges for the Neu­ropsy­chol­o­gists of the Future? We will struc­ture the con­ver­sa­tion around five emerg­ing and thought-pro­vok­ing statements:

1. There are 7.5 bil­lion human brains out there, and every­one needs help

2. Life­long neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty means all those brains can “sculpt” themselves

3. Mobile, sens­ing, wear­able tech­nolo­gies, cou­pled with arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence (AI), pro­vide a new plat­form to har­ness that neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty for good

4. Entre­pre­neur­ship and invest­ments are fuel­ing accel­er­at­ed growth

5. Pro­fes­sion­als are step­ping up to help edu­cate con­sumers and patients.

To learn more, read Five rea­sons the future of brain enhance­ment is dig­i­tal, per­va­sive and (hope­ful­ly) bright and explore these 25 Key Resources to Improve Brain Health and Men­tal Health.

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: brain-enhancement, Brain-health, brain-performance, digital health, innovation, neuropsychologists, Neuropsychology

Update: Why Untrained Brains Are A Bit Like Puppies (And How Dance Offers Great Brain Training)

April 27, 2017 by SharpBrains

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Time for Sharp­Brains’ April e‑newsletter, fea­tur­ing what’s new in brain health and cog­ni­tive per­for­mance. Quite stim­u­lat­ing reading 🙂

New thinking

  • Why Untrained Brains Are A Bit Like Pup­pies, And How To Put Togeth­er the Build­ing Blocks of a Smarter, Hap­pi­er Mind
  • Mak­ing Stress Work for You, Instead of Against You
  • 5 Facts You Need To Know To Under­stand, Nav­i­gate And Enjoy The Dig­i­tal Brain Health Revolution
  • Spe­cial Offer: Learn from 100+ Brain Experts, Watch 40+ Hours at the Lead­ing Edge (10%-off dis­count code: sharp2017)

New research

  • Dance train­ing: The ulti­mate way to delay brain decline by com­bin­ing phys­i­cal, cog­ni­tive, and social engagement
  • Help­ing bridge neu­ro­science and edu­ca­tion: 30+ experts debunk the the­o­ry of fixed, rigid “learn­ing styles”
  • Par­ents’ edu­ca­tion­al and income lev­els (not breast­feed­ing per se) account for the brain devel­op­ment gains in breast­fed children
  • Brain stim­u­la­tion can work–if prop­er­ly timed
  • The US Navy tests neu­ro-prim­ing and oth­er non-phar­ma­co­log­i­cal aids to boost cog­ni­tion and performance

therapy controlNew tools

  • Ful­ly con­cen­trat­ed on task at hand? Then your com­put­er won’t dis­tract you
  • Aug­ment­ing phys­io­ther­a­py via neu­ro­feed­back and neu­rostim­u­la­tion: Key neu­rotech­nol­o­gy patent #43
  • Elon Musk to pio­neer new Inner Space Fron­tier via Neu­ralink “neur­al lace” technology
  • In the field of neu­rostim­u­la­tion, what comes first, Pub­lished Research or Patents?
  • Enhanc­ing cog­ni­tion via brain train­ing with a visu­al empha­sis: Key neu­rotech­nol­o­gy patent #38

Upcoming event

  • May 6th, New York City: Antic­i­pat­ing and Shap­ing the Neu­ropsy­chol­o­gy of the Future

 

Final­ly, here you have 5 quick brain teasers to sharp­en two key cog­ni­tive skills: atten­tion and work­ing mem­o­ry.

 

Have a great month of May,

 

The Sharp­Brains Team

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: boost cognition, brain, brain experts, Brain Teasers, Brain-health, brain-stimulation, Brain-Training, cognitive, cognitive-performance, cognitive-skills, dance, digital health, Education & Lifelong Learning, mind, Neuropsychology, neuroscience, neurostimulation, Stress

May 6th, New York City: Anticipating and Shaping the Neuropsychology of the Future

April 24, 2017 by SharpBrains

Heads-up about an upcom­ing joint meet­ing by the New York Neu­ropsy­chol­o­gy Group and the Psy­chol­o­gy Sec­tion of the New York Acad­e­my of Sciences.

  • What: Neu­ropsy­chol­o­gy of the future and how we can pre­pare for it today
  • When: Sat­ur­day May 6th, 2017, 10 am – 1 pm
  • Where: Podell Audi­to­ri­um in Bern­stein Pavil­ion, Mount Sinai Beth Israel 10 Nathan D Perl­man Place NY, NY 10003

The Focus

Please join promi­nent neu­ropsy­chol­o­gists and indus­try lead­ers to explore the future of neu­ropsy­chol­o­gy and how you can har­ness recent find­ings and tech­nolo­gies to pre­pare for [Read more…] about May 6th, New York City: Antic­i­pat­ing and Shap­ing the Neu­ropsy­chol­o­gy of the Future

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: future, neuropsychologists, Neuropsychology, New York Academy of Sciences, New-York-City, Pearson, Psychology

5 Facts You Need To Know To Understand, Navigate And Enjoy The Digital Brain Health Revolution

April 12, 2017 by Alvaro Fernandez

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Hun­dreds of com­pa­nies around the globe, now includ­ing Elon Musk’s Neu­ralink and even Face­book,  are research­ing and devel­op­ing new ways to help brain own­ers be smarter, sharp­er, and healthier.

What explains this flur­ry of activ­i­ty? Where may it be headed?

To help you under­stand what’s going on, let me high­light five key facts that emerged from the recent Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit.

 

Fact 1. There are 7.5 billion human brains out there, and everyone needs help

Con­sid­er all unmet needs derived from the tra­di­tion­al phar­ma-exclu­sive approach to brain health.

Learn­ing and cog­ni­tive dis­abil­i­ties in chil­dren are grow­ing sig­nif­i­cant­ly, from ADHD and OCD, to autism. The relat­ed emo­tion­al and eco­nom­ic bur­den is sub­stan­tial — yet, over 60–70% of those with treat­ment have poor out­comes, and many who need help don’t get any.

Glob­al­ly, around 350 mil­lion peo­ple suf­fer from depres­sion. Add to that sub­stance abuse, and we are talk­ing hun­dreds of mil­lions of peo­ple with­out prop­er care and very high relapse rates for the lucky ones get­ting help.

Con­cus­sions and brain impair­ments per­vade through mil­lions of vet­er­ans and high-con­tact sports prac­ti­tion­ers, yet diag­no­sis and treat­ments are elusive.

And let’s not for­get the per­fect­ly healthy. [Read more…] about 5 Facts You Need To Know To Under­stand, Nav­i­gate And Enjoy The Dig­i­tal Brain Health Revolution

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Akili, Baycrest, Brain-health, BrainHQ, Claritas Mindsciences, Click Therapeutics, cogmed, Cogniciti, cognifit, digital health, Educational Testing Service, Elon Musk, Facebook, Headspace, IBM Watson, Interaxon, Jazz Ventures, Lumosity, Merck, Merck Ventures, MindMaze, Muse, MyndYou, Neuralink, neuroplasticity, Neuropsychology, neurotech­nolo­gies, neurotech­nolo­gy, NIMH, Pear Therapeutics, Pearson, RehaCom, SBT Group, sharpbrains, UT-Dallas, World-Economic-Forum

Four reasons the future of brain health is digital, pervasive and bright

February 15, 2017 by Alvaro Fernandez

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Hun­dreds of com­pa­nies and sci­ence labs around the globe are research­ing the inner work­ings of the human brain and mind, and devel­op­ing new ways to help brain own­ers be smarter, sharp­er, and health­i­er for longer.

What explains this flur­ry of activ­i­ty? [Read more…] about Four rea­sons the future of brain health is dig­i­tal, per­va­sive and bright

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