Friday Feature: Soar Academy
Colleen HroncichIf you ’re designing a school for kids who have been left behind, you ’re going to need flexibility, an individualized approach, and a willingness to go at different paces. That ’s exactly what Kenisha Skaggs has created with Soar Academy in Augusta, Georgia.Kenisha worked at a tutoring center, but the methods they used weren ’t working. In 2010, she began tutoring students in her home after school. Parents liked the customized multi‐sensory approach she used—which she mainly learned from her mom homeschooling her in high school. Some parents asked her to homeschool their child...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 3, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Colleen Hroncich Source Type: blogs
Alto Neuroscience raises $60M (equity + credit) to help fix the “trial and error” approach to psychiatric medication
Alto Neuroscience bags $25M for four Phase II drugs (Endpoints News):
Another $25 million is flowing the way of a California biotech attempting to fix the “trial and error” system in neuroscience drug R&D.
Alto Neuroscience picked up the capital from Alpha Wave Ventures via an extension to its Series B, bringing total equity raised to $100 million since the startup’s 2019 founding.
… The approximately 50-employee startup hopes to move past the “trial and error” approach of neuroscience drug development, perhaps most recognizable by the lengths patients have to go through to find the depression meds that act...
Source: SharpBrains - January 31, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Alpha Wave Ventures Alto Neuroscience behavioral task measurements cognition depression meds EEG activity emotion Genetics K2 HealthVentures sleep Source Type: blogs
The European Society for Brain Stimulation opposes EU reclassification of TMS and tDCS, claiming a flawed safety assessment
Manifesto: Opposition to EU Reclassification of TMS and tDCS equipment to Class III devices based on flawed evidence (European Society for Brain Stimulation):
It has recently come to our attention that the EU has reclassified the NIBS equipments including rTMS and tDCS, as Class III devices, the category of highest risk, similar to invasive treatments, such as deep-brain stimulation implants. This reclassification has a major impact on our field, not only for manufacturers, but also for researchers, clinicians and patients and we judge this reclassification a mistake. First, the evidential basis for this change is a flawed...
Source: SharpBrains - January 24, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation brain stimulation EU European Society for Brain Stimulation neurostimulation rTMS tDCS Source Type: blogs
Sharing " What Is the Source of the Correlation Between Reading and Mathematics Achievement? Two Meta-analytic Studies " via BrowZine
What Is the Source of the Correlation Between Reading and Mathematics Achievement? Two Meta-analytic StudiesÜnal, Zehra E.; Greene, Nathaniel R.; Lin, Xin; Geary, David C.Educational Psychology Review: Vol. 35 Issue 1, p. 4, 2023.Abstract Two meta-analyses assessed whether the relations between reading and mathematics outcomes could be explained through overlapping skills (e.g., systems for word and fact retrieval) or domain-general influences (e.g., top-down attentional control). The first (378 studies, 1,282,796 participants) included weighted random-effects meta-regression models to explore and contrast the magnitu...
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - January 24, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 23rd 2023
This study explored the association between tap drinking water and longevity in Cilento, Italy, to understand whether trace elements in local drinking water may have an influence on old, nonagenarian, and centenarian people and promote their health and longevity.
Data on population and water sources were collected through the National Demographic Statistics, the Cilento Municipal Archives, and the Cilento Integrated Water Service. Ordinary least squares (OLS) regression and a geographically weight regression (GWR) model were used to study the spatial relationship between the explanatory and outcome variables of long...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 22, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Funded postdoctoral positions at the bcbl- basque center on cognition brain and language (san sebasti Án, basque country, spain)
FUNDED POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS AT THE BCBL- BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION BRAIN AND LANGUAGE (SAN SEBASTI ÁN, BASQUE COUNTRY, SPAIN), www.bcbl.eu The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebasti án, Basque Country, Spain) offers the following positions:FUNDED POSTDOCTORAL POSITION – Signal Processing in Neuroimaging GroupFUNDED POSTDOCTORAL POSITION – Neurolinguistics and Aphasia GroupFUNDED POSTDOCTORAL POSITION – Consciousness GroupFUNDED POSTDOCTORAL POSITION – Brain Rhythms and Cognition Group INFORMATION ABOUT THE POSITIONS IN https://www.bcbl.eu/en/join-us/job-offers...
Source: Talking Brains - January 19, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
What lies beneath the structure of intelligence? Overview of the special issue on the processes underlying intelligence - ScienceDirect
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289623000016?via%3Dihub****************************************** Kevin S. McGrew, PhD Educational& School Psychologist Director Institute for Applied Psychometrics (IAP)https://www.themindhub.com ****************************************** (Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner))
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - January 18, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: blogs
Hydrogel Scaffold Makes a Living Electrode
A team of researchers at the Harvard Wyss Institute have developed a soft, hydrogel scaffold that can function as a living electrode for brain-computer interface applications. The researchers used electrically conductive materials and created a porous and flexible scaffold using a freeze-drying process. They then seeded the scaffold with human neural progenitor cells (NPCs) and cultured the scaffolds for extended periods, prompting the cells to differentiate into a variety of neurons and astrocytes. The researchers hope that the resulting ‘living electrode’ could be useful for brain-computer interfaces, as its soft and...
Source: Medgadget - January 18, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Materials Neurology Neurosurgery Source Type: blogs
Brain-computer interfaces: where are we now?
Dimitrios Adamos, co-founder & CTO of Cogitat, discusses with Alex Alexakis in Startup Pirate about: - What are brain-computer interfaces? - What is the difference between invasive and non-invasive technologies? Think Elon Musk’s Neuralink vs. Snap’s NextMind. - Are there any transformational applications of brain-computer interfaces today? - How far are we from wider adoption [...] (Source: Neurobot)
Source: Neurobot - January 16, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dimitrios A. Adamos Tags: Stories Brain Interfaces EEG Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 16th 2023
Conclusions
Implanted Hair Follicle Cells Produce Remodeling of Scar Tissue
Assessment of Somatic Mosaicism as a Biomarker of Aging
The Gut Microbiome of Centenarians
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2023/01/the-gut-microbiome-of-centenarians/
The state of the gut microbiome is arguably as influential on health as exercise. Various microbial species present in the gut produce beneficial metabolites, such as butyrate, or harmful metabolites, such as isoamylamine, or can provoke chronic inflammation in a variety of ways. An individual can have a better or worse microbiome, assessing these and other...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 15, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Healthcare Consumerism – 2023 Health IT Predictions
As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Check out our communities predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media.
All of this year’s 2023 health IT predictions:
Healthcare Security and Risk
Healthcare AI
Business of Healthcare and Value Based Care
Healthcare Workforce
Telehealth and RPM
Pharma
Health E...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 12, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT 2023 Health IT Predictions Adrienne Boissy Brad Kittredge Brightside Health Cedar Cleveland Clinic Craig Worland Dave Bennett Derek Streat DexCare Diana Zuskov Source Type: blogs
Ref 6581/22, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour & Development
About WesternWestern Sydney University is a modern, forward-thinking, research-led university, located at the heart of Australia ’s fastest-growing and economically significant region, Western Sydney. Boasting 11 campuses – many in Western Sydney CBD locations – and more than 200,000 alumni, 49,500 students and 3,500 staff, the University has 14 Schools with an array of well-designed programs and degrees carefully struc tured to meet the demands of future industry.The University is ranked in the top two per cent of universities worldwide, and as a research leader, over 85 per cent of the University ’s assessed rese...
Source: Talking Brains - January 12, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Ballroom dancing can reduce aging-related brain atrophy in the hippocampus (and, more than treadmill walking!)
Social ballroom dancing can improve cognitive functions and reduce brain atrophy in older adults who are at increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. That’s the key finding of my team’s recently published study in the Journal of Aging and Physical Activity.
In our study, we enrolled 25 adults over 65 years of age in either six months of twice-weekly ballroom dancing classes or six months of twice-weekly treadmill walking classes. None of them were engaged in formal dancing or other exercise programs.
The overall goal was to see how each experience affected cognitive function and brain health...
Source: SharpBrains - January 11, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Conversation Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Alzheimer’s Disease brain health Brain-atrophy cognition cognitive-function dancing dementia executive functioning hippocampus older-adults processing-speed social ballroom Source Type: blogs
Stay Out of My Head: Neurodata, Privacy, and the First Amendment
Wayne Unger (Gonzaga University), Stay Out of My Head: Neurodata, Privacy, and the First Amendment, Wash.& Lee L. Rev. (Forthcoming): The once science-fictional idea of mind-reading is within reach as advancements in brain-computer interfaces produce neurodata —the collection of substantive... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - January 11, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Commentary on More Drastic Scenarios of Partial Brain and Full Body Replacement
Is outright replacement of tissues a viable option for the treatment of aging? There are factions within the longevity-interested community who think that the paths to either (a) engineering replacement brain tissue for parts of the brain not involved in memory, or (b) transplantation of an old head onto a young body or brain into a young body, are short enough to be worth pursuing, where "short enough" means a few decades of work given sufficient funding. To my mind, major surgery of the sort implied by replacement of large sections of tissue or entire organs is something to be avoided in later life, given the risks and c...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 10, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
