BrainFutures News

BrainFutures Launches Multi-Part Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Initiative

BrainFutures, a citizen advocacy nonprofit dedicated to improving human outcomes by assessing and advancing the practical applications of new scientific understanding of the brain, announces the launch of an issue brief series and coalition building effort focused on psychedelic-assisted therapy.  Psychedelic-assisted therapies hold promise for treating some of...

Major Associations Endorse BrainFutures’ Recent Report on Neurofeedback Treatment for ADHD and Anxiety

Recent Research Shows Neurofeedback as an Efficacious Treatment for ADHD with Sustained Results at 12-Month Follow Up, and Efficacious for Treating Anxiety BALTIMORE – BrainFutures’ latest report that outlines a clear case for neurofeedback (NFB) as an efficacious treatment for ADHD and symptoms of anxiety has gained the endorsements of three of the most ...

Executive Function in Children’s Academic and Life Outcomes

On September 30, 2020, BrainFutures’ Holly McCormack facilitated a powerful conversation between Goldie Hawn and Bruce Wexler as part of the Aspen Brain Institute’s Expert Series. The conversation explored the current state of education, young student brain development, and brain fitness interventions that can increase executive function (EF), a set of comp...

Embarking on an Audacious Plan to Double Brain Health and Performance

By Linda Raines, BrainFutures CEO This week I was privileged to be among remarkable leaders who are working in concert to double brain health and performance over the next decade. I am speaking of the October 21 preview event for The BrainHealth Project, conceptualized and led by Dr. Sandi Chapman, Director of the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Te...

BrainFutures Partners with Baltimore Brain Connect for Brain Awareness Week!

BrainFutures partnered with Baltimore Brain Connect, a project of the Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute, to celebrate Brain Awareness Week at the B'More Healthy Expo. We spoke with a wide range of Expo visitors and distributed more than 1,400 informational resources about brain health across the lifespan. Baltimore Brain Connect's neuroscientists taughtÂ...

BrainFutures is Gearing up for Brain Awareness Week! Here's How You Can Participate!

Brain Awareness Week is coming soon! March 11-17, 2019 BrainFutures is proud to partner with the Dana Foundation in Brain Awareness Week (BAW), a global campaign to increase awareness about the progress and benefits of brain research. As a part of our participation in BAW, BrainFutures will be at the B’more Healthy Expo to share our work with the Baltimore ...

BrainFutures Director Testifies Before the Maryland House Ways and Means Committee

On January 31, BrainFutures Director Karen Alexander testified before the Maryland House Ways and Means Committee in support of House Bill 110, which would require public elementary schools to provide a daily program of physical activity totaling 150 minutes each week, including a minimum of 90 minutes of physical education. Her testimony included research ab...

January Brain Facts

Brain experts agree that although our knowledge of the brain has changed drastically in recent years, there is more to learn.   Here are our top fascinating brain facts of the month: The brain creates new neural pathways and modifies existing ones in response to behavioral, environmental, and neural changes. This process of neuroplasticity, also kno...

December Brain Facts

Brain experts agree that although our knowledge of the brain has changed drastically in recent years, there is more to learn.   Here are our top fascinating brain facts of the month: What does it mean to be knocked unconscious? According to Brainfacts.org, there are several things that could cause a disruption in consciousness. For instance, you can lose co...

November Brain Facts

Brain experts agree that although our knowledge of the brain has changed drastically in recent years, there is more to learn.   Here are our top fascinating brain facts of the month: How does the brain keep us awake? Wakefulness is maintained by the brain’s arousal systems, each regulating different aspects of the awake state. Many arousal syste...