Trend: Growing interest in (and questions around) brain training centers for kids with special needs

___ Par­ents pay thou­sands for ‘brain train­ing’ to help kids with ADHD and autism. But does it work? (NBC News): “…As the num­ber of chil­dren diag­nosed with ADHD and autism surges in the U.S., accord­ing to fed­er­al data, and as par­ents become exas­per­at­ed with treat­ments that don’t work or involve med­ica­tions that car­ry the risk of…

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Four guidelines for smart use of smartphones

These days, you can’t go any­where with­out hear­ing about how tech­nol­o­gy is ruin­ing every­thing, includ­ing our hap­pi­ness. There is some truth to this, but it’s not the whole sto­ry. Tech­nol­o­gy can be bad for us—for exam­ple, when social media gives us FOMO (fear of miss­ing out) or traps us in fil­ter bub­bles that pre­vent us from…

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The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) shares discussion paper to help empower 8 billion minds via the ethical adoption of digital mental health and neurotech

Our newest #NAM­Per­spec­tives paper out­lines the eight key actions need­ed to scale the use of men­tal health tech­nol­o­gy in sup­port­ing men­tal health care pro­fes­sion­als world­wide. Read about this pro­posed path for­ward: https://t.co/vnKAQzrSaS pic.twitter.com/JRd8fKQP80 — Nation­al Acad­e­my of Med­i­cine (@theNAMedicine) Octo­ber 28, 2019 Tech­nol­o­gy has much to offer in terms of pro­vid­ing and improv­ing access to better…

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September 17th @ UC Berkeley: Disrupting neurodegenerative diseases

__________ Quick heads-up about a great event next month for those based in the San Fran­cis­co Bay Area. When: Tues­day, Sep­tem­ber 17, 2019 / 8:30 AM – 6:00 PM PDT Where: Pauley Ball­room, UC Berke­ley What: 2019 UC Berke­ley Aging Research & Tech­nol­o­gy Sum­mit: Dis­rupt­ing Neu­rode­gen­er­a­tive Dis­eases Alzheimer’s and neu­rode­gen­er­a­tive dis­eases are

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Finalists named to take part in the Brainnovations Pitch Contest next week

Excit­ed to announce the three ground­break­ing star­tups that will get to pitch their idea and solu­tions at the Brain­no­va­tions Pitch Con­test on May 8th, dur­ing Day 2 of the 2019 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (May 7–9th). These are the select­ed Final­ists, togeth­er with their sum­ma­ry ele­va­tor pitch. Please join us in cel­e­brat­ing their work so far…

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Update: Meditation-based mental training can lead to clear –yet surprisingly varied– cognitive and emotional benefits

_____ Dear read­er, Time for Sharp­Brains month­ly e‑newsletter, dis­cussing lat­est think­ing, research and tools for life­long brain health and men­tal health. Enjoy! New think­ing: Study finds clear–yet sur­pris­ing­ly different–benefits in 3 types of med­i­­ta­­tion-based men­tal train­ing Tech­nol­o­gy and the Cog­ni­tion Cri­sis Think twice before tak­ing Ader­all for cog­ni­tive enhance­ment: It may actu­al­ly impair work­ing mem­o­ry and…

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