Five conditions for evidence-based brain training to deliver clear, durable benefits

July 8, 2025  | Com­ments Off on Five con­di­tions for evi­dence-based brain train­ing to deliv­er clear, durable benefits
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In today’s AI-enhanced soci­ety we are con­front­ed with a wide range of rapid­ly chang­ing and inter­con­nect­ed chal­lenges. Suc­cess­ful­ly deal­ing with such an envi­ron­ment requires a high­ly fit brain and mind, capa­ble of adapt­ing to new sit­u­a­tions at any point in life. Look­ing ahead, we expect cross-train­ing the brain to  become as com­mon as cross-train­ing the…

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NICE says “Alzheimer’s drug” donanemab and lecanemab should not be provided on the UK’s National Health System (NHS) given risks and cost-benefit assessment

July 1, 2025  | Com­ments Off on NICE says “Alzheimer’s drug” donanemab and lecanemab should not be pro­vid­ed on the UK’s Nation­al Health Sys­tem (NHS) giv­en risks and cost-ben­e­fit assessment
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The UK’s Nation­al Insti­tute for Health and Care Excel­lence (Nice) has declined to rec­om­mend two new Alzheimer’s drugs for rou­tine NHS use in Eng­land. While dis­ap­point­ing for some fam­i­lies affect­ed by demen­tia, this deci­sion reflects a cau­tious and evi­­­dence-based approach that pro­tects patients and pub­lic funds. The drugs in ques­tion – lecanemab, made by Eisai, and…

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May Working Memory Training be the “silver bullet” to upskill students in the AI era?

June 23, 2025  | Com­ments Off on May Work­ing Mem­o­ry Train­ing be the “sil­ver bul­let” to upskill stu­dents in the AI era?
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Across the devel­oped world, kids are falling behind — fast. In OECD coun­tries, aca­d­e­m­ic per­for­mance in read­ing, math, and sci­ence has declined steadi­ly — with recent drops equiv­a­lent to near­ly a full year of lost learn­ing, accord­ing to PISA data. At the same time, atten­tion spans are shrink­ing dra­mat­i­cal­ly. Research by Dr. Glo­ria Mark shows…

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Tianjin, June 24–26th: “Summer Davos” to address Entrepreneurship and Investments in People, Planet, and Brains

June 16, 2025  | Com­ments Off on Tian­jin, June 24–26th: “Sum­mer Davos” to address Entre­pre­neur­ship and Invest­ments in Peo­ple, Plan­et, and Brains
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The 16th Annu­al Meet­ing of the New Cham­pi­ons 2025, con­vened by the World Eco­nom­ic Forum and often referred as “Sum­mer Davos”, will bring togeth­er lead­ers from gov­ern­ment, busi­ness and acad­e­mia, along with inno­va­tors and rep­re­sen­ta­tives from inter­na­tion­al orga­ni­za­tions, media and civ­il soci­ety. Through action-ori­en­t­ed dia­logues, the meet­ing aims to accel­er­ate progress on shared imper­a­tives and…

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X’s AI chatbot Grok selects The SharpBrains Guide as a Top 5 Book “to keep the brain afloat”

June 3, 2025  | Com­ments Off on X’s AI chat­bot Grok selects The Sharp­Brains Guide as a Top 5 Book “to keep the brain afloat”
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Any book sug­ges­tions to keep the brain ? afloat @grok ? — SIX CENT (@YOUNGLADmusic) May 8, 2025 Here are five books to keep your brain sharp: 1. “Keep Sharp” by Dr. San­jay Gup­ta – Prac­ti­cal tips for brain health. 2. “The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness” by Fer­nan­dez & Gold­berg – Strate­gies for cog­ni­tive fit­ness. 3.…

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Ready to try this evidence-based working memory training app?

May 27, 2025  | Com­ments Off on Ready to try this evi­dence-based work­ing mem­o­ry train­ing app?
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_____ A few weeks ago I led a Stan­ford alum­ni ses­sion on how to enhance our brain fit­ness in the new and rapid­ly chang­ing AI era. We dis­cussed the need to main­tain if not expand our Work­ing Memory—the capac­i­ty to hold and manip­u­late in real-time mul­ti­ple units of information—which is cru­cial for aca­d­e­m­ic and work…

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Study: To invest in Brain Capital, let’s ensure all students build Cognitive Endurance

April 30, 2025  | Com­ments Off on Study: To invest in Brain Cap­i­tal, let’s ensure all stu­dents build Cog­ni­tive Endurance
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Christi­na Brown is an Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Chicago’s Ken­neth C. Grif­fin Depart­ment of Eco­nom­ics. When research­ing my pre­vi­ous inter­view with Torkel Kling­berg on work­ing mem­o­ry and aca­d­e­m­ic per­for­mance I came across her fas­ci­nat­ing study Cog­ni­tive Endurance as Human Cap­i­tal, recent­ly pub­lished in The Quar­ter­ly Jour­nal of Eco­nom­ics. Dear Christi­na, your exper­i­ment tests…

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New book to help readers Rise Above the victim mindset and “Empower yourself, empower the world”

April 22, 2025  | Com­ments Off on New book to help read­ers Rise Above the vic­tim mind­set and “Empow­er your­self, empow­er the world”
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The inspired and brave new book by cog­ni­tive sci­en­tist Scott Bar­ry Kauf­man, Rise Above: Over­come a Vic­tim Mind­set, Empow­er Your­self, and Real­ize Your Full Poten­tial, could well have been titled How to Rise Above The Cod­dling of the Amer­i­can Mind, as it offers read­ers a prac­ti­cal set of insights and tools to pro­mote indi­vid­ual empowerment…

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Reinventing education in the AI era: The role of early cognitive capacity training interventions

April 17, 2025  | Com­ments Off on Rein­vent­ing edu­ca­tion in the AI era: The role of ear­ly cog­ni­tive capac­i­ty train­ing interventions
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For the stu­dents in the inter­ven­tion group of the recent­ly pub­lished Berg­er et al. study, a brief com­put­er­ized work­ing mem­o­ry inter­ven­tion seems to have been able to divert the usu­al school­ing “train” onto a dif­fer­ent and bet­ter line: trans­fer effects mea­sured at the three-year fol­low-up indi­cate a sig­nif­i­cant improve­ment in aca­d­e­m­ic per­for­mance and track assignment!…

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Study finds promising self-guided psychological treatment for adults with ADHD

April 8, 2025  | Com­ments Off on Study finds promis­ing self-guid­ed psy­cho­log­i­cal treat­ment for adults with ADHD
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Although ADHD was orig­i­nal­ly con­sid­ered to be a dis­or­der of child­hood, it has been clear for years that it also impacts adults. At least 60% of chil­dren diag­nosed with ADHD strug­gle with symp­toms into adult­hood and the esti­mat­ed preva­lence of ADHD in adults is between 4 and 5%. As with chil­dren and teens, med­ica­tion treat­ment is…

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SHARPBRAINS Advi­sors is an inde­pen­dent think-tank and con­sult­ing firm pro­vid­ing ser­vices at the fron­tier of applied neu­ro­science, health, lead­er­ship and innovation.
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