Retooling brain health care with pervasive, inexpensive, data-driven digital technologies

—– While sophis­ti­cat­ed neu­roimag­ing tech­niques such as fMRI (func­tion­al mag­net­ic res­o­nance imag­ing) pro­vide a sig­nif­i­cant boost in our under­stand­ing of the brain — and research stud­ies con­stant­ly report­ed all over the media — they are very cost­ly. This makes it dif­fi­cult to reach the mass scale required to con­duct mean­ing­ful research and to improve the brain health…

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Update: Well-targeted brain training might significantly reduce dementia risk

Time for a new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains’ e‑newsletter. Hap­py read­ing! New brain research ACTIVE study: Well-tar­get­ed brain train­ing might sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduce demen­tia risk To improve brain health you need BOTH aer­o­bic and cog­ni­tive exer­cise A new era of brain car­tog­ra­phy, pow­ered by neu­roimag­ing and machine learn­ing New tools for brain health and per­for­mance Akili rais­es an…

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Study: Brain scans may predict depression risk better than clinical rating scales, paving the way for earlier preventive treatments

Brain Scans Could Iden­ti­fy Kids at Risk of Depres­sion (Smith­son­ian): “One of the most fright­en­ing aspects of depres­sion is the fact that, once some­one suf­fers a depres­sive episode, they’re very like­ly to have anoth­er. And depres­sion itself often brings oth­er ills, from sub­stance abuse to heart disease

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One more brain myth bites the dust: There’s no Male Brain, or Female Brain; There’s Human Brain

The brains of men and women aren’t real­ly that dif­fer­ent, study finds (Sci­ence): “As soon as sci­en­tists could image the brain, they began hunt­ing for sex differences…in the new study, researchers led by Daph­na Joel, a behav­ioral neu­ro­sci­en­tist at Tel Aviv Uni­ver­si­ty in Israel, tried to be as com­pre­hen­sive as pos­si­ble. Using

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Neuroimaging studies: In soccer, over one thousand “headers” per year can lead to brain injury and cognitive impairment

. Study indi­cates there may be a head­ing thresh­old above which the risk for brain dam­age increas­es sig­nif­i­cant­ly: An Inter­view with Michael L. Lip­ton (Dana Foun­da­tion): “Dr. Lip­ton pio­neered the use of MRI tech­nol­o­gy to detect mild trau­mat­ic brain injuries (mTBI) from con­cus­sions. Such injuries, which may bring cog­ni­tive and behav­ioral impair­ment and even neu­rode­gen­er­a­tion later…

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