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FDA clears Trigeminal nerve stimulation (TNS) as ADHD treatment

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Although stim­u­lant med­ica­tions are gen­er­al­ly con­sid­ered to be a safe and effec­tive treat­ment for ADHD, not all chil­dren ben­e­fit from this approach. Many par­ents are reluc­tant to begin their child on med­ica­tion and some chil­dren expe­ri­ence unac­cept­able side affects.

For these rea­sons, devel­op­ing safe and effec­tive alter­na­tive treat­ments for ADHD remains a pri­or­i­ty. Trigem­i­nal nerve stim­u­la­tion (TNS) is an alter­na­tive approach that was recent­ly test­ed in a dou­ble-blind, sham-con­trolled study. [Read more…] about FDA clears Trigem­i­nal nerve stim­u­la­tion (TNS) as ADHD treatment

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

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fog brainUCLA 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 [Read more…] about Next: Tools to detect and treat “chemo brain” symp­toms com­mon in around 35% of breast can­cer survivors

Using Your Head: What is the Future of Brain Health? (Interview Part 2)

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Into_The_Future(Edi­tor’s Note: this is Part 2 of the con­ver­sa­tion between David Coleiro and Alvaro Fer­nan­dez on the future of brain health. You can read Part 1 Here)

Non-inva­sive technologies
There is now a grow­ing toolk­it of non-inva­sive tech­nolo­gies which can be used in brain train­ing. Exam­ples of these include: [Read more…] about Using Your Head: What is the Future of Brain Health? (Inter­view Part 2)

Why Being Young for Grade Increases Odds of ADHD Diagnosis and Stimulant Medication

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ADHD is the most com­mon­ly diag­nosed neu­robe­hav­ioral dis­or­der in chil­dren and sub­stan­tial evi­dence indi­cates that bio­log­i­cal fac­tors play an impor­tant role in its devel­op­ment. For exam­ple, although the exact mech­a­nism by which genet­ic fac­tors con­vey increased risk for ADHD remains unclear, the impor­tance of genet­ic trans­mis­sion has been doc­u­ment­ed in a num­ber of pub­lished studies.

Even though bio­log­i­cal fac­tors are wide­ly regard­ed as impor­tant in the devel­op­ment of ADHD, no med­ical or bio­log­i­cal test is rec­om­mend­ed for rou­tine use when diag­nos­ing ADHD. Instead, [Read more…] about Why Being Young for Grade Increas­es Odds of ADHD Diag­no­sis and Stim­u­lant Medication

Male clin­i­cians may be misdiag­nosing 39% of ADHD-diagnosed boys

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39% We had sev­er­al read­ers high­light this strik­ing sta­tis­tic from yes­ter­day’s blog post, Is ADHD over­diag­nosed? Find­ings from a new study in Germany

This is but anoth­er exam­ple on the grow­ing need to base behavioral/ men­tal health pre­ven­tion, diag­nos­tic and treat­ment not on symp­toms alone, but to mea­sure and incor­po­rate objec­tive mark­ers of brain func­tion, as dis­cussed in our pre­vi­ous arti­cle Neurofeedback/ Quan­ti­ta­tive EEG for ADHD diag­no­sis and in Thomas Insel’s blog post on big data.

Registration Opens for 2012 SharpBrains Virtual Summit: Optimizing Health through Neuroplasticity, Innovation and Data

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We are pleased to con­firm a “dream team” of 30+ Speak­ers and Mod­er­a­tors to help answer the fol­low­ing ten core ques­tions on the future of brain health on June 7th and 8th. Please note that Sum­mit reg­is­tra­tion is open now, includ­ing spe­cial Very Ear­ly Bird rates until March 31st.

By the year 2015, …

  1. What new tools and tech­niques will be avail­able to and wide­ly used by con­sumers and patients to mon­i­tor their own Brain Health?
  2. How will health­care providers mon­i­tor the Brain Health of pop­u­la­tions and individuals?
  3. How will com­pa­nies enhance employ­ee brain health and pro­duc­tiv­ity via work­place ini­tia­tives? [Read more…] about Reg­is­tra­tion Opens for 2012 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: Opti­miz­ing Health through Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty, Inno­va­tion and Data