Lifestyle Matters: Let ’s optimize cognition, health and life in 2024
Welcome to a new edition of SharpBrains e‑newsletter, featuring fascinating research findings on lifestyle, protective brain structures, Internet access, mental health, brain imaging, and more.
#1. Lifestyle matters: What we can do in 2024 to optimize cognition and life, delaying cognitive problems even dementia
“Actor Chris Hemsworth…watched his grandfather live with Alzheimer’s and is making lifestyle changes after learning he has two copies of the APOE4 gene. This gene is a risk factor for Alzheimer’s, and having two copies significantly increases his risk of developing the same condition.” (Smart move reg...
Source: SharpBrains - December 27, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health SharpBrains Monthly eNewsletter Technology & Innovation adhd Alzheimer’s APOE4 gene Brain-Imaging dementia symptoms frontotemporal dementia lifestyle Neurophet Source Type: blogs
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Source: SharpBrains - December 21, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Alvaro Fernandez Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Education & Lifelong Learning Source Type: blogs
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Happy Holidays and Let’s Have a Great 2024!
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Source: SharpBrains - December 21, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Alvaro Fernandez Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Lifestyle matters: What we can do in 2024 to optimize cognition and life, delaying cognitive problems even dementia
This article was originally published on The Conversation.
News in Context:
Solving the Brain Fitness Puzzle Is the Key to Self-Empowered Aging
What are cognitive abilities and how to boost them?
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Source: SharpBrains - December 14, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Conversation Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Alzheimer’s biological Brain-Fitness cognition cognitive engagement cognitive-abilities cognitive-reserve dementia depression exercise inflammation lifestyle neuroplasticity optimize cognition Stress Source Type: blogs
Study doesn ’t find evidence to link internet access with poorer psychological well-being and mental health
Is the internet bad for mental health? What the latest study really means. (Mashable):
… Enter a study published Tuesday by researchers in the journal Clinical Psychological Science, which tried but did not succeed in finding a compelling link between internet access and poor mental health and well-being.
Business Insider, for example, declared that the study found no link between social media use and “mental health harm.” Except that’s not what the researchers evaluated.
Instead, they contrasted internet access in the form of yearly per capita internet and mobile-broadband subscriptions and various measures of wel...
Source: SharpBrains - December 7, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation Internet internet age Internet-technology neuroscience psychological psychological well-being Source Type: blogs
Study finds positive self-reported aspects of the ADHD experience among young women, especially related to hyperactivity and hyperfocus
– Three young Norwegian women. Source: Young and Promising show (SBS)
As is true for children and adolescents, many adults experience substantial challenges related to having ADHD. These challenges often include relationship problems, educational and work challenges, difficulty adhering to long-term plans and goals, and time and money management difficulties.
Given these well-documented difficulties, it is not surprising that ADHD treatment with adults has largely adopted a deficit model that emphasizes reducing the symptoms and impairments associated with the condition.
While these are important treatment goals, and the...
Source: SharpBrains - November 30, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dr. David Rabiner Tags: Attention & ADD/ADHD ADHD experience ADHD-Treatment cognition cognitions cognitive cognitive-abilities cognitive-behavioral-therapy deficits impairments resilience treatment research ymptoms Source Type: blogs
Five sharp riddles to celebrate the Holidays in perfect harmony
Q: What is a sure way of sustaining a friendly and sociable feeling towards the whole world?
A: Consort only with strangers.
Q: What beats regretting what you DID say?
A: Treasuring what you DIDN’T say.
Q: What’s far more harmful to your health than NOT keeping up with the news?
A: Keeping up with the news and discussing the latest over Thanksgiving dinner.
Q: What is the most impenetrably foolproof camouflage of all on this planet?
A: The human smile.
Q: What does “you must come and visit us sometime” actually mean?
A: Nothing at all. However, if you take it seriously, be ready for the “what are YOU doing here?...
Source: SharpBrains - November 22, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Keith Perreur-Lloyd Tags: Brain Teasers cognitive-abilities riddles Thanksgiving Source Type: blogs
Five sharp riddles to celebrate Thanksgiving in perfect harmony
Q: What is a sure way of sustaining a friendly and sociable feeling towards the whole world?
A: Consort only with strangers.
Q: What beats regretting what you DID say?
A: Treasuring what you DIDN’T say.
Q: What’s far more harmful to your health than NOT keeping up with the news?
A: Keeping up with the news and discussing the latest over Thanksgiving dinner.
Q: What is the most impenetrably foolproof camouflage of all on this planet?
A: The human smile.
Q: What does “you must come and visit us sometime” actually mean?
A: Nothing at all. However, if you take it seriously, be ready for the “what are YOU doing here?...
Source: SharpBrains - November 22, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Keith Perreur-Lloyd Tags: Brain Teasers cognitive-abilities riddles Thanksgiving Source Type: blogs
Study identifies protective brain structure that delays the onset of frontotemporal dementia symptoms over 2 years
This article was originally published on The Conversation.
To Learn More:
Deep learning model built on neuroimaging data identifies “Brain Age Gaps” as markers of Alzheimer’s disease (AD)
Study: Building cognitive reserve helps delay memory and thinking decline regardless of genetic or childhood markers
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Source: SharpBrains - November 17, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Conversation Tags: Brain/ Mental Health brain fold brain-reserve brain-structure Bruce Willis cognitive advantage cognitive-ability cognitive-reserve dementia frontal-lobes frontotemporal dementia paracingulate sulcus Source Type: blogs
Brain imaging AI start-up Neurophet raises $15M to better direct Alzheimer ’s treatments, lower ARIA side-effects
Korean AI startups Allganize, Neurophet raise over $35 mn (The Korea Economic Daily):
Founded in 2016, the company plans to next year roll out its new AI analysis program that can detect side effects of Alzheimer’s disease treatments with a microhemorrhage diagnosis.
The Korean AI startup is famous for its flagship AI analysis technologies, Neurophet AQUA, which is a brain MRI analysis technology, and Neurophet SCALE PET, an AI-based positron emission tomography (PET) image analysis program.
It plans to go public in Korea next year, said Neurophet CEO Bin Joon-gil, adding that it is currently working with its underwriter...
Source: SharpBrains - November 9, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation Alzheimer’s disease treatments Alzheimers-disease anti-amyloid antibody treatments brain image analysis donanemab lecanemab microhemorrhage diagnosis Neurophet positron emission tomography Source Type: blogs
On neuroplasticity, cognition, aging, medication, Alzheimer ’s, board games, brain teasers, and more
Welcome to a new edition of SharpBrains e‑newsletter, featuring fascinating research findings on neuroplasticity, cognition, aging, medication, Alzheimer’s, board games, and more, plus some brain teasers to get you in great shape for Halloween.
#1. Study: Playing board games like Chess, Mahjong, Go, helps slow cognitive decline as we age (but with clear differences in neurobiology and improved function)
So … let’s play all three!
#2. The Mindful Body argues against mindlessly accepting age-related decline in cognition and health as inevitable
“Perhaps Langer’s most provocative advice is reserved for doctors and...
Source: SharpBrains - October 26, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Education & Lifelong Learning SharpBrains Monthly eNewsletter Aduhelm aging Alzheimer’s board games cognition digital therapeutics DTx Leqembi medication neuroplasticity Source Type: blogs
Study: Playing board games like Chess, Mahjong, Go, helps slow cognitive decline as we age (but with clear differences in neurobiology and function)
Conclusions: Traditional board games may slow global cognitive decline and improve the quality of life in elderly subjects. Different games have varying impacts on specific cognitive domains, possibly mediated by functional and biological factors.
The Study in Context:
Study: For better memory and thinking skills at age 70 (and beyond), play cards and board games from age 11
How learning changes your brain
Solving the Brain Fitness Puzzle Is the Key to Self-Empowered Aging
The post Study: Playing board games like Chess, Mahjong, Go, helps slow cognitive decline as we age (but with clear differences in neurobio...
Source: SharpBrains - October 25, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Education & Lifelong Learning aging Alzheimer’s Disease BDNF chess cognition cognitive decline Cognitive-impairment dementia Go Mahjong neurobiology primary prevention recreational games secondary preve Source Type: blogs
Questions grow about the validity and usefulness of direct-to-consumer blood tests for Alzheimer ’s Disease
For the first time, people worried about their risk of Alzheimer’s disease can go online, order a blood test, and receive results in the privacy of their homes.
This might seem appealing on the surface, but the development has Alzheimer’s researchers and clinicians up in arms.
The Quest Diagnostics blood test, AD-Detect, measures elevated levels of amyloid-beta proteins, a signature characteristic of Alzheimer’s. Introduced in late July, the test is targeted primarily at people 50 and older who suspect their memory and thinking might be impaired and people with a family history of Alzheimer’s or genetic risks for t...
Source: SharpBrains - October 19, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Judith Graham at Kaiser Health News Tags: Brain/ Mental Health AD-Detect Alzheimer’s Alzheimer’s biomarker amyloid-beta proteins brain health brain pathology cognitive cognitive-symptoms mini-strokes neurology neuropsychologist Quest Diagnostics sleep apnea Source Type: blogs
