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Update: Survey of scientific, technological & market trends revolutionizing Brain Health in our Digital Age

January 25, 2017 by SharpBrains

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Time for a new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains’ e‑newsletter explor­ing the lat­est dig­i­tal brain health tech­nolo­gies, neu­ro­science find­ings and insights for  life­long brain health and men­tal health.

New tools:

  • Sur­vey of key sci­en­tif­ic, tech­no­log­i­cal and invest­ment trends rev­o­lu­tion­iz­ing Brain Health in our Dig­i­tal Age
  • Is Your iPhone Real­ly Fry­ing Your Brain? Five Things You Need To Know
  • The Cana­di­an Cen­tre for Aging & Brain Health Inno­va­tion (CC-ABHI) is look­ing for tri­al part­ners to test inno­v­a­tive solutions
  • Con­sumers exper­i­ment with tran­scra­nial direct cur­rent stim­u­la­tion (tDCS) with no reg­u­la­to­ry oversight
  • Brain scans map­ping lan­guage and mem­o­ry areas can help guide epilep­sy-relat­ed surgeries

New research:

  • Cog­ni­tive Behav­ioral Ther­a­py (CBT) + Med­ica­tion out­per­forms CBT alone to treat ADHD symp­toms among adults. At the same time…
  • To reduce heart dis­ease and stroke risks, reg­u­late stress and improve brain health
  • UT Dal­las researcher secures $2.7m grant to bet­ter mon­i­tor and address TBI-relat­ed cog­ni­tive and func­tion­al deficits
  • The Mediter­ranean Diet seen to sub­stan­tial­ly reduce brain shrink­age among old­er adults
  • Both mater­nal and parental obe­si­ty linked to young children’s neu­rode­vel­op­men­tal delays

New thinking:

  • Improve edu­ca­tion, pro­duc­tiv­i­ty and health via brain enhancement
  • Ten Impor­tant Sig­nals to help rein­vent Brain Health in the Dig­i­tal Age & serve the needs of an Aging Population
  • 50 Final­ists from 37 coun­tries short­list­ed for the $1M Glob­al Teacher Prize
  • The One New Year’s Res­o­lu­tion To Help You Keep All Your New Year’s Resolutions
  • For­get think­ing vs. feel­ing dichoto­my. Think/ feel holis­tic brain functioning

 

Final­ly, here you are a fun brain teas­er to chal­lenge your frontal lobes.

 

We hope you enjoy all the neu­ro-stim­u­lat­ing reading 🙂

 

The Sharp­Brains Team

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: adhd, aging, Brain Teasers, brain-enhancement, Brain-health, brain-scans, brain-teaser, CBT, cognitive-behavioral-therapy, diet, digital, digital therapeutics, Education & Lifelong Learning, frontal-lobes, health, innovation, iPhone, market trends, market-research, medication, neurodevelopment, TBI, tDCS

Study: Both maternal and parental obesity linked to young children’s neurodevelopmental delays

January 3, 2017 by SharpBrains

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Parental obe­si­ty linked to delays in child devel­op­ment, NIH study sug­gests (NIH press release):

“Chil­dren of obese par­ents may be at risk for devel­op­men­tal delays, accord­ing to a study by researchers at the Nation­al Insti­tutes of Health. The inves­ti­ga­tors found that chil­dren of obese moth­ers were more like­ly to fail tests of fine motor skill—the abil­i­ty to con­trol move­ment of small mus­cles, such as those in the fin­gers and hands. Chil­dren of obese fathers were more like­ly to fail mea­sures of [Read more…] about Study: Both mater­nal and parental obe­si­ty linked to young children’s neu­rode­vel­op­men­tal delays

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: brain-development, Child-Development, childhood, communication, fine motor, gross motor, maternal, neurodevelopment, obesity, paternal, personal-social functioning, problem-solving ability

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Forum on the Future Impact of Neuroscience and Behavior Change

October 28, 2009 by Alvaro Fernandez

The Robert Wood John­son Foun­da­tion just announced a new ini­tia­tive of their Pio­neer port­fo­lio:

“On Novem­ber 11–12, the Robert Wood John­son Foun­da­tion (RWJF), work­ing with the Mon­i­tor Insti­tute, will wel­come a small group of researchers, aca­d­e­mics, physi­cians and indus­try lead­ers in the fields of neu­rotech­nol­o­gy, neu­rode­vel­op­ment and behav­ior change for a Forum on the Future Impact of Neu­ro­science and Behav­ior Change.

The ques­tion: what could neu­ro­science inno­va­tion mean for the future of health and health care?

This blog post con­tains the list of  par­tic­i­pants (hon­ored to be one) and an excel­lent con­tex­tu­al overview.

Foun­da­tion staff will blog and tweet the event (haven’t seen the hash­tag yet); I will link to good mate­ri­als and offer my own per­spec­tive focused on that “neu­rode­vel­op­ment” aspect and, over­all, where/ how research and the real-world can “dance” with each other.

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: behavior change, innovation, Monitor Institute, neurodevelopment, neuroscience, neuroscience innnovation, Neurotechnology, pioneer, Robert-Wood-Johnson-Foundation, RWJF

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