Next: Tools to detect and treat “chemo brain” symptoms common in around 35% of breast cancer survivors

By SharpBrains | March 23, 2015

UCLA study reveals treat­ment for women with breast can­cer suf­fer­ing cog­ni­tive dif­fi­cul­ties (Health­Canal): “UCLA researchers have devel­oped a pro­gram that could improve the day-to-day lives of women with breast can­cer by address­ing post-treat­­ment cog­ni­tive dif­fi­cul­ties, some­times known as “chemo brain,” which can affect up to 35 per­cent of women after their treatments

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Study: Enhancing brain functioning, and preventing cognitive decline, via diet, exercise and cognitive training

By SharpBrains | March 13, 2015

  Healthy eat­ing, exer­cise, and brain-train­ing pro­gram results in slow­er men­tal decline for old­er peo­ple (Sci­ence Dai­ly): “A com­pre­hen­sive pro­gram pro­vid­ing old­er peo­ple at risk of demen­tia with healthy eat­ing guid­ance, exer­cise, brain train­ing, and man­age­ment of meta­bol­ic and vas­cu­lar risk fac­tors appears to slow down cog­ni­tive decline, accord­ing to the first ever ran­domised con­trolled trial…

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Study: Harnessing a virtual reality brain training game to diagnose mild cognitive impairment (MCI)

By SharpBrains | January 15, 2015

. Vir­tu­al real­i­ty brain train­ing game can detect mild cog­ni­tive impair­ment, a con­di­tion that often pre­dates Alzheimer’s dis­ease (press release): “Geek researchers demon­strat­ed the poten­tial of a vir­tu­al super­mar­ket cog­ni­tive train­ing game as a screen­ing tool for patients with mild cog­ni­tive impair­ment (MCI) among a sam­ple of old­er adults… In an arti­cle pub­lished in the…

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Accelerating brain health research via online registries

By SharpBrains | April 10, 2014

San Fran­­cis­­co-based online ‘brain reg­istry’ seeks vol­un­teers to trans­form research (San Jose Mer­cury News): “By vol­un­teer­ing — repeat­ed­ly over time — par­tic­i­pants join a pool of research sub­jects in the new Brain Health Reg­istry, opened Tues­day, for stud­ies on brain dis­eases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkin­son’s, as well as depres­sion, post-trau­­mat­ic stress dis­or­der and oth­er neurological…

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CEO of Cambridge Cognition to speak at 2013 SharpBrains Summit

By SharpBrains | June 14, 2013

Ruth Frances Keir runs Cam­bridge Cog­ni­tion (AIM: COG), one of the 10 Com­pa­nies to Watch in 2013/ 2014 accord­ing to our lat­est mar­ket report, which devel­ops and com­mer­cial­izes com­put­erised neu­ropsy­cho­log­i­cal tests used in a vari­ety of health­care and research set­tings. She joined the Cam­bridge Cog­ni­tion board ini­tial­ly in 2010 as a non-exec­u­­tive direc­tor, bring­ing to it more…

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