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7 Tips for Keeping Your Brain Healthy and Active from Huffington Post

The end of summer is approaching, which means it’s time for adults and professionals to recapture a “back to school” discipline, including positive health habits to last through the end of the year. Among a self-care regiment, it’s important to include activities that keep your brain healthy and active. For some tips on how to do just th...

5 Innovative People Improving Brain Health and Performance from Inc Magazine

5 Innovative People Improving Brain Health and Performance Beneath the drive for professional success is the desire for personal growth. This drive towards fulfillment that we all experience--in one form or another--motivates us to continue learning so that we can achieve our true potential. And one crucial part of continued growth is researching one of our mo...

5 Influential Conferences Every Forward-Thinker Should Attend from Inc Magazine

What is the single most valuable part of the human body when it comes to innovation? The brain. Today, over 50 million American adults experience brain diseases and disorders. Put that beside the rampant rise of technology and its influence upon human behavior, and now more than ever is the time to start talking about brain health. BrainFutures is le...

Electrifying your brain may seem counterintuitive. Here’s why it makes sense

Motorheads will get this faster than anyone else because the brain is not unlike the engine fueling your motorcycle, car or bus. So you’re underneath the car working on your engine when your hand glides over a rough edge. It doesn’t hurt much until you look over and see blood. Gushing everywhere. What happens next? You head to the bathroom to clean the wo...

5 Ways We Can Begin Taking Preventative Measures Today to Improve Brain Fitness from Huffington Post

When we talk about cures for brain illness, we tend to think in terms of the distant future. Diseases like Alzheimer’s pose challenges to society at large, and the search for solutions is often measured in decades—not days. The biggest societal challenge is, of course, disease burden, with mental health costs being the largest category, even above card...

Welcome to BrainFutures

Over a century ago, community leaders came together in Baltimore to address troubling conditions for people living with illnesses of the mind, and the second oldest mental health advocacy group in the nation ─ the Mental Health Association of Maryland (MHAMD)  ̶  was formed. In 2015, as MHAMD’s leaders reflected on the passage of one hundred years of ad...