Expanding the brain health toolkit with mobile neurobehavioral tests — aka a “brain thermometer”?

Army touts ‘brain ther­mome­ter’ as front-line tool (Army Times): “Army medics will soon use what’s been dubbed a “brain ther­mome­ter”: a mobile phone appli­ca­tion that can, with­in min­utes, pro­vide health pro­fes­sion­als data to help diag­nose and mea­sure a sol­dier’s injuries… The Defense Auto­mat­ed Neu­robe­hav­ioral Assess­ment, pro­duced by Anthro­Tron­ix, includes 

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Cognitive Health and Development: April Round-Up

Round-up of April arti­cles and news on neu­ro­science, brain devel­op­ment and cog­ni­tive health: Games for Health Con­fer­ences to host new Cog­ni­tive Health Track: For the first time, a new Cog­ni­tive Health track ‑Pow­ered by Sharp­Brains- will cov­er eleven brain fit­ness and cog­ni­tive health top­ics dur­ing the 5th Annu­al Games for Health Con­fer­ence. The cur­rent price…

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Brain/ Cognitive Enhancement with drugs… and cereal?

Sev­er­al recent arti­cles and news: Brain Gain: the under­ground world of “neu­roen­hanc­ing” drugs (The New York­er) — “Alex remains enthu­si­as­tic about Adder­all, but he also has a slight­ly jaun­diced cri­tique of it. “It only works as a cog­ni­tive enhancer inso­far as you are ded­i­cat­ed to accom­plish­ing the task at hand,” he said. “The num­ber of times…

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