The way we approach Mental Health today is broken beyond repair. The question is, what comes next, and how fast can we get there?

By SharpBrains | June 3, 2020

The hid­den links between men­tal dis­or­ders (Nature): In 2018, psy­chi­a­trist Oleguer Plana-Ripoll was wrestling with a puz­zling fact about men­tal dis­or­ders. He knew that many indi­vid­u­als have mul­ti­ple con­di­tions — anx­i­ety and depres­sion, say, or schiz­o­phre­nia and bipo­lar dis­or­der. He want­ed to know how com­mon it was to have more than one diag­no­sis, so he…

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Marian C. Diamond to open SharpBrains Summit

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 25, 2009

What a bet­ter open­ing for our Jan­u­ary Sharp­Brains Sum­mit than to have Mar­i­an C. Dia­mond, one of the pio­neers of neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty research since the 1960s, intro­duce us to the human brain, its anato­my and func­tion, and impli­ca­tions from neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty for brain health and per­for­mance at any age. Mar­i­an C. Dia­mond, Ph.D., is Pro­fes­sor of Neu­ro­science and…

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