Executive Functions and Dysfunction in Brain Health and Brain Disorders: Dates announced for Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg’s Symposium in Costa Rica

By SharpBrains | March 7, 2024 |

We are pleased to announce a fan­tas­tic 5‑day pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment oppor­tu­ni­ty fea­tur­ing our Advi­sor and renowned author and neu­ropsy­chol­o­gist Elkhonon Gold­berg, Ph.D., ABPP., and titled “Exec­u­tive Func­tions and Dys­func­tion in Brain Health and Brain Dis­or­ders. Frontal Lobes, Dis­trib­uted Net­works, and the Whole Brain.” The infor­ma­tion pre­sent­ed will aid prac­ti­tion­ers and researchers alike in advanc­ing their knowledge…

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To screen, or not to screen (for dementia), that is still the question

By Judith Graham @ Kaiser Health News | March 11, 2020

A lead­ing group of med­ical experts on Tues­day declined to endorse cog­ni­tive screen­ing for old­er adults, fuel­ing a debate that has sim­mered for years. The U.S. Pre­ven­tive Ser­vices Task Force said it could nei­ther rec­om­mend nor oppose cog­ni­tive screen­ing, cit­ing insuf­fi­cient sci­en­tif­ic evi­dence of the practice’s ben­e­fits and harms and call­ing for fur­ther stud­ies. The task…

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Executive Functions in Health and Disease: New book to help integrate Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology

By Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg | August 8, 2017

__________ Neu­ro­science used to be the monop­oly of a few elite uni­ver­si­ties locat­ed in a hand­ful of coun­tries. Neu­ropsy­chol­o­gy used to be a quaint niche dis­ci­pline rel­a­tive­ly uncon­nect­ed to the larg­er world of neu­ro­science and con­tent in its meth­ods with paper-and-pen­­cil tests. 

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5 trends shaping the future of brain enhancement and neuropsychology

By SharpBrains | May 9, 2017

Five rea­sons the future of brain enhance­ment is dig­i­tal, per­va­sive and (hope­ful­ly) bright from Sharp­Brains Pre­sen­ta­tion by Alvaro Fer­nan­dez at the New York Neu­ropsy­chol­o­gy Group (NYNG) 2017 Annu­al Spring Con­fer­ence. Descrip­tion: Hun­dreds of com­pa­nies around the globe–now includ­ing Elon Musk’s Neu­ralink and even Facebook–are research­ing and devel­op­ing new ways to help brain own­ers be smarter,…

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May 6th, New York City: Anticipating and Shaping the Neuropsychology of the Future

By SharpBrains | April 24, 2017

Heads-up about an upcom­ing joint meet­ing by the New York Neu­ropsy­chol­o­gy Group and the Psy­chol­o­gy Sec­tion of the New York Acad­e­my of Sci­ences. What: Neu­ropsy­chol­o­gy of the future and how we can pre­pare for it today When: Sat­ur­day May 6th, 2017, 10 am – 1 pm Where: Podell Audi­to­ri­um in Bern­stein Pavil­ion, Mount Sinai Beth Israel 10…

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