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BrainHealth Week starts today! Plus: dancing, personalized mental health, brain stimulation and more

February 20, 2023 by SharpBrains Leave a Comment

Wel­come to a new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains e‑newsletter, annouc­ing the kick-off of Brain­Health Week and fea­tur­ing some stim­u­lat­ing resources and teasers.

#1. Brain­Health Week (Feb­ru­ary 20–24th) starts today:

Explore many fun events includ­ing a dai­ly text chal­lenge, a talk with the always great Dr. Tom Insel, and more!

#2. With­out Brain Health, you do not have Health

Impor­tant arti­cle giv­en that “It typ­i­cal­ly takes twen­ty to forty years or more for sci­en­tif­ic dis­cov­er­ies to mean­ing­ful­ly ben­e­fit human life. We can­not wait that long.” — Wise words!

#3. Sin Salud Cere­bral, Ust­ed no tiene Salud –same arti­cle, in Span­ish, for extra men­tal stim­u­la­tion and for sharing 🙂

“En los últi­mos diez años, los neu­ro­ci­en­tifi­cos hemos des­cu­bier­to mucho acer­ca de cómo fun­ciona el cere­bro, cómo mejo­rar la salud y el fun­cionamien­to del cere­bro y la mente a lo largo de la vida, y cómo esto con­tribuye a nues­tra salud y bien­es­tar en gen­er­al. Únase a nosotros y asegúrese de que los mejores años de su cere­bro están aún por venir, recor­dan­do que: Sin salud cere­bral, ust­ed no tiene salud.”

#4. Ball­room danc­ing can reduce aging-relat­ed brain atro­phy in the hip­pocam­pus (and, more than tread­mill walking!)

“(Danc­ing) gen­er­at­ed sig­nif­i­cant­ly greater improve­ments than tread­mill walk­ing on one mea­sure of exec­u­tive func­tion and on pro­cess­ing speed, which is the time it takes to respond to or process infor­ma­tion. Com­pared with walk­ing, danc­ing was also asso­ci­at­ed with reduced brain atro­phy in the hip­pocam­pus – a brain region that is key to mem­o­ry func­tion­ing and is par­tic­u­lar­ly affect­ed by Alzheimer’s dis­ease … We think that social danc­ing may be more ben­e­fi­cial than walk­ing because it is phys­i­cal­ly, social­ly and cog­ni­tive­ly demand­ing – and there­fore strength­ens a wide net­work of brain regions.”

#5. Alto Neu­ro­science rais­es $60M (equi­ty + cred­it) to help fix the “tri­al and error” approach to psy­chi­atric medication

“To do so, Alto is pair­ing a trove of data on EEG activ­i­ty, genet­ics, behav­ioral task mea­sure­ments and oth­er fac­tors to see which of its drugs fits best with patients who have depres­sion, post-trau­mat­ic stress dis­or­der and oth­er men­tal health con­di­tions. The company’s arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence plat­form homes in on three buck­ets: cog­ni­tion, emo­tion and sleep.”

#6. Voice bio­mark­er plat­form Sonde Health rais­es $19.25M to spread access to men­tal health mon­i­tor­ing and beyond

“GN Group will inte­grate Sonde’s Men­tal Fit­ness vocal bio­mark­er into its hear­ing prod­ucts. The com­pa­ny is already work­ing with Sonde to devel­op an MCI vocal bio­mark­er. Qual­comm, which has already inte­grat­ed Sonde’s vocal bio­mark­ers into its mobile device chipsets, has extend­ed the rela­tion­ship to include its wear­able chipsets.”

#7. The Euro­pean Soci­ety for Brain Stim­u­la­tion oppos­es EU reclas­si­fi­ca­tion of TMS and tDCS, claim­ing a flawed safe­ty assessment

“To put this into per­spec­tive, the like­li­hood of a seizure from rTMS (0.003%) is low­er than that asso­ci­at­ed with the use of anti­de­pres­sants and antipsy­chotics (0.1–1, 5%) … More­over, when such seizures occur they do so most­ly out­side the clinician’s office, by con­trast with rTMS (Per­era et al., 2016). For low inten­si­ty tDCS, tACS, tRNS seizure risk is com­plete­ly absent … As an organ­i­sa­tion and rep­re­sen­ta­tives of NIBS clin­i­cians and pro­fes­sion­als from across Europe, we, the ESBS, there­fore dis­agree with this EU deci­sion and in par­tic­u­lar with the fac­tu­al­ly incor­rect jus­ti­fi­ca­tions of that deci­sion to reclas­si­fy TMS and TES as inva­sive technologies”

Final­ly, a cou­ple of brain teasers to help you test your men­tal rota­tion cog­ni­tive skills:

#8. Can you read a map?

#9. Brain teas­er to stim­u­late your men­tal imagery, spa­tial rota­tion … and appetite

Have a great Brain­Health Week!

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: Alto Neuroscience, Alzheimer’s Disease, brain stimulation, Brain Teasers, brain-teaser, BrainHealth Week, cerebral, cognitive-skills, dancing, mental health, mental-fitness, personalized, salud, salud cerebral, Sonde, tDCS, TMS, vocal biomarker

El Cerebro Que Cura: Descubre la mejor forma de mantener un cerebro sano como fuente de salud

January 21, 2020 by Abante Asesores

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Álvaro Fer­nán­dez, CEO de Sharp­Brains, estu­vo recien­te­mente en Abante para pre­sen­tarnos “El cere­bro que cura: Des­cubre la mejor for­ma de man­ten­er un cere­bro sano como fuente de salud“, el libro que escribió jun­to a Álvaro Pas­cual-Leone, neu­ro­cien­tí­fi­co de la Uni­ver­si­dad de Har­vard, y a David Bartrés-Faz, pro­fe­sor de la Fac­ul­tad de Med­i­c­i­na y Cien­cias de la Salud de la Uni­ver­si­tat de Barcelona. [Read more…] about El Cere­bro Que Cura: Des­cubre la mejor for­ma de man­ten­er un cere­bro sano como fuente de salud

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, En Español Tagged With: Alvaro Pascual-Leone, alvaro-fernandez, Cerebro, David Bartrés-Faz, el cerebro que cura, ikigai, libro, mente, neurocientífico, plasticidad cerebral, salud, sharpbrains

SharpBrains y El Cerebro Que Cura se presentan en Madrid

November 13, 2019 by Abante Asesores

– Vista de la Puer­ta de Alcalá en Madrid, des­de las ofic­i­nas de Abante.

Esta tarde en el #Audi­to­rioA­bante @ssatrustegui habla con Álvaro Fer­nán­dez, uno de los autores de “El cere­bro que cura”. #Con­fer­en­ci­aA­bante #ElCere­bro­Que­Cu­ra pic.twitter.com/P1aaxE6bfO

— aban­teas­esores (@abanteasesores) Novem­ber 11, 2019

[Read more…] about Sharp­Brains y El Cere­bro Que Cura se pre­sen­tan en Madrid

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, En Español Tagged With: Cerebro, cerebro que cura, cerebro sano, estilos de vida, libro, libro cerebro, Madrid, mente, pautas de conducta, salud

11 de Noviembre en Madrid: Presentación oficial de El Cerebro Que Cura

November 4, 2019 by Abante Asesores

Nos com­place invi­tar­le al diál­o­go en torno al libro “El cere­bro que cura” con uno de sus autores Álvaro Fer­nán­dez Ibáñez y San­ti­a­go Satrústegui, pres­i­dente de Abante.

El libro, escrito por tres pio­neros españoles, resume décadas de inves­ti­gación cien­tí­fi­ca a niv­el mundi­al sobre cere­bro, mente y salud y detal­la cómo alin­ear nue­stros esti­los de vida y pau­tas de con­duc­ta para man­ten­er un cere­bro sano como fuente de salud y vital­i­dad. [Read more…] about 11 de Noviem­bre en Madrid: Pre­sentación ofi­cial de El Cere­bro Que Cura

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, En Español Tagged With: Cerebro, cerebro que cura, cerebro sano, estilos de vida, libro, libro cerebro, Madrid, mente, pautas de conducta, salud

Kindle Countdown Deal para leer este verano (y poner en practica!) un gran libro sobre la salud cerebral y mental

June 25, 2019 by SharpBrains

Bue­nas noti­cias: La edi­ción kin­dle de Cómo inver­tir en su cere­bro está disponible con un gran des­cuen­to des­de aho­ra has­ta el domin­go 30 de Junio en las tien­das Ama­zon de EEUU y Reino Unido.

Esper­amos que esto le ayude a dis­fru­tar un libro clave para enten­der nue­stros cere­bros y mentes y nave­g­ar las últi­mas inves­ti­ga­ciones científicas.

» Acce­da a la pro­mo­ción Aquí (EEUU) o Aquí (Reino Unido)

“Una lec­tura estim­u­lante y un reto al mis­mo tiem­po, con infor­ma­ción sól­i­da y con­se­jos prác­ti­cos  para mejo­rar la salud de nue­stro cere­bro”. —Kirkus Reviews   

“Un recur­so impre­scindible para ayu­darnos a enten­der mejor nue­stro cere­bro y nues­tra mente, y cómo desar­rol­lar­los a lo largo de la vida”. —Susan E. Hoff­man, Direc­tor, Osh­er Life­long Learn­ing Insti­tute en UC Berke­ley [Read more…] about Kin­dle Count­down Deal para leer este ver­a­no (y pon­er en prac­ti­ca!) un gran libro sobre la salud cere­bral y mental

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: Cerebro, libro, salud, salud cerebral, salud mental, verano

Mens sana in corpore sano…and vice versa (interview in Spanish)

March 4, 2019 by SharpBrains

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“La soledad es tan per­ju­di­cial para la salud como fumar 15 cig­a­r­ril­los al día” (La Vanguardia):

“Respec­to al peso total del cuer­po, más bien pesa poco. Unos 1.400 gramos. Y sus dimen­siones tam­poco son para tirar cohetes: ron­da los 1.300 cen­tímet­ros cúbi­cos. Pero a pesar de su reduci­do tamaño, su reper­cusión sobre el ser humano es incal­cu­la­ble. En él reside, ni más ni menos, que la mente y la con­cien­cia del indi­vid­uo. Sí, hablam­os del cere­bro, [Read more…] about Mens sana in cor­pore sano…and vice ver­sa (inter­view in Spanish)

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Barcelona Brain Health Initiative, Cerebro, cerebro que cura, enfermedad, Institut Guttmann, La Caixa, mente, salud

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