Upcoming event on therapeutic and non-therapeutic uses of non-invasive neuromodulation devices

By SharpBrains | February 19, 2015

. Heads-up: The Insti­tute of Med­i­cine (IOM), a branch of the Nation­al Acad­e­my of Sci­ences, is putting togeth­er a for­ward-look­ing work­shop on Non-Inva­­sive Neu­ro­mod­u­la­tion of the Cen­tral Ner­vous Sys­tem. March 2–3rd, 2015, in Wash­ing­ton, DC. Descrip­tion: Based on advances in biotech­nol­o­gy and neu­ro­science, neu­ro­mod­u­la­tion devices are poised to gain clin­i­cal impor­tance in the com­ing years and to be…

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News: Launch of Brain Start-up Challenge on August 1st

By Rosemarie Truman | July 30, 2014

Dear Sharp­Brains com­mu­ni­ty, We have read Alvaro Fer­nan­dez’s pub­li­ca­tion regard­ing the BRAIN Ini­tia­tive in Ven­ture Beat and thought our first-of-a-kind Brain Start-up Chal­lenge would be of inter­est to many of you. To pro­vide some back­ground, the Nation­al Insti­tutes of Health, Cen­ter for Dis­ease Con­trol and Pre­ven­tion, Cen­ter for Advanc­ing Inno­va­tion and the Her­itage Provider Net­work, have…

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Is Autism Spectrum Disorder overdiagnosed?

By SharpBrains | April 11, 2014

1 in 68 Chil­dren Now Has a Diag­no­sis of Autism Spec­trum Dis­or­der. Why? (The Atlantic): “The stag­ger­ing increase in cas­es of ASD should raise more sus­pi­cion in the med­ical com­mu­ni­ty about its mis­di­ag­no­sis and over­diag­no­sis than it does. The sci­ence stacks up in favor of catch­ing and treat­ing ASD ear­li­er because it leads to better…

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Maximizing brain fitness and mental well-being improves both public health and individual quality of life

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 14, 2012

 We’re hav­ing a good con­ver­sa­tion among Sharp­Brains Sum­mit par­tic­i­pants, prompt­ed by the blog post Life­long brain well­ness and performance–not med­ical disease–drives grow­ing demand for dig­i­tal brain health solu­tions. In what is a beau­ti­ful exam­ple of the need to see both the for­est and the trees

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New WHO Report: Global dementia cases expected to exceed 115 million by 2050

By SharpBrains | April 13, 2012

Descrip­tion: “The report “Demen­tia: a pub­lic health pri­or­i­ty” has been joint­ly devel­oped by WHO and Alzheimer’s Dis­ease Inter­na­tion­al. The pur­pose of this report is to raise aware­ness of demen­tia as a pub­lic health pri­or­i­ty, to artic­u­late a pub­lic health approach and to advo­cate for action at inter­na­tion­al and nation­al lev­els. Demen­tia is a syn­drome that…

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