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NIH outlines global research agenda to tackle brain disorders–from cognitive impairments to depression and dementia

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BrainDisordersLifespanHeads-up: There’s an excellent–and open-access– research sup­ple­ment in Nature, result of an NIH-led effort to advance the glob­al brain dis­or­ders research agen­da.

Descrip­tion: Infants are starved of oxy­gen dur­ing dif­fi­cult births. Children’s cog­ni­tive func­tion is per­ma­nent­ly dam­aged due to mal­nu­tri­tion or expo­sure to infec­tions or tox­ins. Adults suf­fer from [Read more…] about NIH out­lines glob­al research agen­da to tack­le brain disorders–from cog­ni­tive impair­ments to depres­sion and dementia

Google gets serious about brain & mental health innovation and hires NIMH Director Tom Insel

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NIH Director’s State­ment Regard­ing Dr. Thomas Insel’s Depar­ture:

“After serv­ing 13 years as Direc­tor for the Nation­al Insti­tute of Men­tal Health (NIMH), Thomas R. Insel, M.D., will step down effec­tive Novem­ber 1, 2015…he is def­i­nite­ly not retir­ing. He is plan­ning to join the Google Life Sci­ences [Read more…] about Google gets seri­ous about brain & men­tal health inno­va­tion and hires NIMH Direc­tor Tom Insel

BRAIN Initiative: New call to action amidst growing skepticism

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humanconnectomeA White House Call To Action to Advance the BRAIN Ini­tia­tive (press release):

“Under this ini­tia­tive, Fed­er­al agen­cies such as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Nation­al Insti­tutes of Health (NIH), the Nation­al Sci­ence Foun­da­tion (NSF), and the Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion (FDA) are sup­port­ing the devel­op­ment and appli­ca­tion of inno­v­a­tive, new tech­nolo­gies that can cre­ate a dynam­ic under­stand­ing of brain func­tion and its rela­tion­ship to behav­ior [Read more…] about BRAIN Ini­tia­tive: New call to action amidst grow­ing skepticism

2013 SharpBrains Virtual Summit to continue at 8.30am US Pacific Time

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Day 2 of the 2013 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit will start today, Sept 20th, at 8.30am US Pacif­ic Time/ 11.30am US East­ern Time.   [Read more…] about 2013 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit to con­tin­ue at 8.30am US Pacif­ic Time

The NIH Toolbox ‑First Comprehensive & Standardized Tests of Brain Function- To Be Released Next Week

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Neu­ro­science Just Got Faster, Cheap­er and Eas­i­er (press release):

“On Sept. 10 and 11, Ger­shon will intro­duce the new NIH Tool­box for Assess­ment of Behav­ioral and Neu­ro­log­i­cal Func­tion to hun­dreds of researchers at a spe­cial Nation­al Insti­tutes of Health (NIH) con­fer­ence in Bethes­da, Mary­land. At the end of Sep­tem­ber, the resource will be made ful­ly avail­able to the research com­mu­ni­ty and clin­i­cians. [Read more…] about The NIH Tool­box ‑First Com­pre­hen­sive & Stan­dard­ized Tests of Brain Func­tion- To Be Released Next Week

NFL donates $30 million to improve concussion & brain injury care

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NFL donates $30 mil­lion to Nation­al Insti­tutes of Health (press release):

“The Nation­al Foot­ball League will pro­vide $30 mil­lion in fund­ing for med­ical research to the Foun­da­tion for the Nation­al Insti­tutes of Health (FNIH), NFL Com­mis­sion­er Roger Good­ell announced today [Read more…] about NFL donates $30 mil­lion to improve con­cus­sion & brain injury care