Growing demand for products to enhance cognition and memory

By SharpBrains | May 1, 2015

. Mar­ket­ing Cog­ni­tion Prod­ucts (Nat­ur­al Prod­ucts Insid­er): “Cog­ni­tion and brain health is a hot top­ic, espe­cial­ly in light of the aging population…As there is cur­rent­ly no cure for demen­tia, con­sumers have a strong inter­est in both per­for­mance and pre­ven­tive cog­ni­tion prod­ucts that include an array of options from 

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Study: Dietary interventions can help children with ADHD (especially with proper monitoring and adjustment)

By Dr. David Rabiner | April 21, 2015

Are dietary inter­ven­tions effec­tive for treat­ing ADHD? This has been a con­tro­ver­sial ques­tion over the years with strong pro­po­nents on both sides of the issue. For many par­ents and pro­fes­sion­als, try­ing to parse through the dif­fer­ent claims about the impact of diet on ADHD has been chal­leng­ing and confusing.

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New course to provide an updated review of conventional & complementary ADHD treatments

By Dr. David Rabiner | March 27, 2015

Dear Sharp­Brains read­er, I hope you are doing well. I am writ­ing to let you know about an upcom­ing online course on how to nav­i­gate ADHD treat­ments that I am devel­op­ing with Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, founder of the Sharp­Brains ser­vice track­ing applied brain sci­ence. The course will take place this May, and is intend­ed to equip parents…

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Announcement: New online course to Navigate Conventional and Complementary ADHD Treatments for Healthy Brain Development

By SharpBrains | January 13, 2015

. Dear col­leagues and friends, ?We are pleased to announce an excit­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion between Sharp­Brains and the Atten­tion Research Update to offer a new online course in May 2015, designed to equip par­tic­i­pants with the under­stand­ing and infor­ma­tion required to nav­i­gate and pri­or­i­tize ADHD treatments–both con­ven­tion­al and complementary–to max­i­mize healthy brain devel­op­ment for chil­dren with ADHD.…

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Growing evidence that vitamin, folic acid supplements do not improve cognitive performance or prevent Alzheimer’s Disease

By SharpBrains | November 19, 2014

— Demen­tia study ques­tions advice on tak­ing sup­ple­ments (BBC News): “Tak­ing vit­a­min B12 and folic acid sup­ple­ments does not seem to cut the risk of devel­op­ing demen­tia in healthy peo­ple, say Dutch researchers. In one of the largest stud­ies to date, there was no dif­fer­ence in mem­o­ry test scores between those who had tak­en the supplements…

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