Beyond helmets: concussions require proactive, individualized monitoring and rehab

By SharpBrains | March 21, 2013

New Con­cus­sion Guide­lines Stress Indi­vid­ual Treat­ment (The New York Times): “The Amer­i­can Acad­e­my of Neu­rol­o­gy said Mon­day that it had revised its guide­lines for han­dling con­cus­sions to empha­size treat­ing ath­letes case by case rather than accord­ing to a pre­de­ter­mined scale…In not­ing that more than a mil­lion Amer­i­can athletes 

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Why Being Young for Grade Increases Odds of ADHD Diagnosis and Stimulant Medication

By Dr. David Rabiner | June 21, 2012

ADHD is the most com­mon­ly diag­nosed neu­robe­hav­ioral dis­or­der in chil­dren and sub­stan­tial evi­dence indi­cates that bio­log­i­cal fac­tors play an impor­tant role in its devel­op­ment. For exam­ple, although the exact mech­a­nism by which genet­ic fac­tors con­vey increased risk for ADHD remains unclear, the impor­tance of genet­ic trans­mis­sion has been doc­u­ment­ed in a num­ber of pub­lished studies.…

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Your Trading Brain: Expert or Novice

By Alvaro Fernandez | June 5, 2008 |

All trad­ing strate­gies and deci­sion mak­ing are brain-based synap­tic strate­gies. The human brain has an infi­nite capac­i­ty to change, orga­nize and reor­ga­nize itself, pro­gres­sion to trad­ing excel­lence is possible.

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Cognitive training research: MindFit, Lumosity, Posit Science, Cogmed

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 12, 2007 |

The field of com­put­er-based cog­ni­tive train­ing (part of what we call “Brain Fit­ness”) is start­ing to get trac­tion in the media and becom­ing an emerg­ing indus­try, and we are hap­py to see how a grow­ing num­ber of researchers and sci­ence-based com­pa­nies are lead­ing stud­ies that will allow to bet­ter mea­sure results and refine the brain exercise…

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