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Update: A brain-friendly lifestyle is the best approach to delay cognitive decline and dementia

November 26, 2019 by SharpBrains

While the hip­pocam­pus tends to shrink with age, which con­tributes to cog­ni­tive decline, a recent study shows that this is not always the case (see all those blue lines), sug­gest­ing it can be pos­si­ble to main­tain hip­pocam­pus vol­ume and cog­ni­tive func­tion into our lat­er years.

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Time to wrap-up anoth­er stim­u­lat­ing month with Sharp­Brains’ e‑newsletter, fea­tur­ing this time a range of promis­ing news for every­one with a (human) brain 🙂

New tech for brain health:

  • Neu­ro­engi­neer­ing meets neu­roethics to address treat­ment-resis­tant depression
  • Study: Hear­ing aids may help old­er adults delay demen­tia, depres­sion, anx­i­ety, and falls
  • Four guide­lines for smart use of smartphones

New brain and mind research:

  • Reminder: A brain-friend­ly lifestyle is the best approach to delay cog­ni­tive decline and dementia
  • Study chal­lenges the “seduc­tive” amy­loid hypoth­e­sis of Alzheimer’s dis­ease (AD)
  • Study finds a key ingre­di­ent in mind­ful­ness train­ing: Accep­tance (not acquiescence)

New thinking to shape education and healthcare:

  • What are the ethics of dis­cour­ag­ing much-need­ed inno­va­tion giv­en poten­tial pri­va­cy concerns?
  • Help select the cam­paign stick­er for Brain Aware­ness Week 2020
  • Sharp­Brains y El Cere­bro Que Cura se pre­sen­tan en Madrid
  • Grow­ing con­cern and hope about astro­nauts’ cog­ni­tive health dur­ing spaceflight

Finally, a few riddles to tease your brain:

  • Nine great rid­dles about Life and Death
  • Sev­en sharp rid­dles to cel­e­brate Thanks­giv­ing in per­fect harmony

 

Have a great Thanks­giv­ing and December,

The Sharp­Brains Team

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: amyloid, brain-awareness-week, Cerebro, cerebro que cura, cognitive-health, delay-dementia, dementia, depression, hearing aids, Mindfulness-Training, neuroengineering, Neuroethics, smartphones

Responsible neuroengineering: Neurotechnology and artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance our lives if it preserves our 1) privacy, 2) identity, 3) agency and 4) equality, researchers say

November 10, 2017 by SharpBrains

After hav­ing elec­trodes implant­ed in the brain to stim­u­late neur­al activ­i­ty, some peo­ple have report­ed feel­ing an altered sense of identity.

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Four eth­i­cal pri­or­i­ties for neu­rotech­nolo­gies and AI (Nature):

Arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence and brain–computer inter­faces must respect and pre­serve peo­ple’s pri­va­cy, iden­ti­ty, agency and equal­i­ty, say Rafael Yuste, Sara Goer­ing and colleagues.

“Con­sid­er the fol­low­ing sce­nario. A paral­ysed man par­tic­i­pates in a clin­i­cal tri­al of a brain–computer inter­face (BCI). A com­put­er con­nect­ed to a chip in his brain is trained to inter­pret the neur­al activ­i­ty result­ing from his men­tal rehearsals of an action. The com­put­er gen­er­ates [Read more…] about Respon­si­ble neu­ro­engi­neer­ing: Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy and arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence (AI) can enhance our lives if it pre­serves our 1) pri­va­cy, 2) iden­ti­ty, 3) agency and 4) equal­i­ty, researchers say

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: brain, mental processes, neuroengineering, neurotechnologies, Neurotechnology, responsible innovation

Are you familiar with these research findings and technologies revolutionizing Brain & Mental Health?

October 30, 2017 by SharpBrains

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Try adding 3 and 8 in your head.

That was easy. Now, try­ing adding 33 and 88. That was prob­a­bly more dif­fi­cult. Final­ly, try adding 333 and 888.

Time for Sharp­Brains’ Octo­ber e‑newsletter, this time dis­cussing a range of research find­ings and tech­nolo­gies rev­o­lu­tion­iz­ing brain and men­tal health.

New thinking about cognition, brain and mind:

  • Study sug­gests the real deficit under­ly­ing Atten­tion Deficit Dis­or­ders is not Atten­tion, but Work­ing Mem­o­ry (and this is why we asked you try adding 333 and 888…)
  • Johns Hop­kins study shows how brain train­ing, if cor­rect­ly tar­get­ed, can enhance cog­ni­tive and brain performance
  • We bet­ter train the mind as we train the body: with cross-train­ing and in good company

Emerging toolkit for brain health & enhancement:

  • Next: Brain scans to iden­ti­fy chil­dren at high risk of devel­op­ing mul­ti­ple scle­ro­sis (MS) before symp­toms appear
  • Tran­scra­nial Direct Cur­rent Stim­u­la­tion (tDCS) can reduce fatigue in patients with Mul­ti­ple Scle­ro­sis (MS)
  • Aus­tralian neu­rotech firm rais­es $4m to devel­op neu­ro­feed­back-based head­band aimed at help­ing kids with autism relax and bet­ter engage

News about the 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (December 5–7th):

  • Neu­ro­engi­neer­ing pio­neer Ran­dal Koene to dis­cuss neur­al interfaces
  • Meet 40 Experts and Inno­va­tors shap­ing Brain Health & Enhance­ment on Decem­ber 5–7th
  • Reminder: the Brainnova­tions Pitch Con­test is accept­ing sub­mis­sions until tomor­row Octo­ber 31st, 11 PM US Pacif­ic Stan­dard Time. We are look­ing for star­tups world­wide, found­ed no ear­li­er than 2012, for-prof­it or non-prof­it, work­ing on ways to har­ness brain research and emerg­ing tech­nolo­gies to help every per­son thrive in the dig­i­tal age.
  • Check out the lat­est Agen­da & Register

And finally, a couple of fun brain teasers to start the week of the right foot:

  • Which direc­tion is the bus going?
  • The Emp­ty Triangle

 

Have a great month of November!

The Sharp­Brains Team

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Filed Under: Attention & ADD/ADHD, Brain Teasers, Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: attention-deficit-disorders, attention-deficits, brain, Brain Teasers, Brain-health, brain-performance, brain-scans, brain-teaser, Brain-Training, cognition, cognitive, mind, multiple-sclerosis, neural interfaces, neuroengineering, Neurofeedback, neurotech, tDCS, Transcranial-direct-current-stimulation, Working-memory

Neuroengineering pioneer Randal Koene to discuss neural interfaces at the 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit

October 24, 2017 by Alvaro Fernandez

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Proud to announce one great addi­tion to the incred­i­ble Speak­er Ros­ter for the upcom­ing the 2017 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Decem­ber 5–7th).

Dr. Ran­dal Koene is the Lead Sci­en­tist at Ker­nel, a $100-mil­lion-fund­ed start-up build­ing advanced neur­al inter­faces to treat dis­ease and dys­func­tion, illu­mi­nate the mech­a­nisms of intel­li­gence, and extend cog­ni­tion. A neu­ro­sci­en­tist and neu­ro­engi­neer, [Read more…] about Neu­ro­engi­neer­ing pio­neer Ran­dal Koene to dis­cuss neur­al inter­faces at the 2017 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Summit

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Filed Under: Technology & Innovation Tagged With: carboncopies.org, extend cognition, intelligence, Kernel, neural interfaces, neuroengineering, Randal-Koene

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