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How COVID-19 Stress Compromises Children’s Brains

By Jude O’Brien It is a strange new world, and we are all doing the best we can to manage and minimize COVID-19. Top of the list: masks and social distancing. For most of us, these steps, and larger ones like self-quarantining and working and learning from home, all can understandably amplify fear and stress. A recent OpEd in the Hechinger Report by Goldie ...

FDA Issues Draft Guidance Regarding Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI)

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently released draft guidance to help spur development of Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) devices for patients with paralysis or amputation. A BCI is a computer-based system that acquires brain signals, analyzes them and translates them into commands that are relayed to an output device to carry out a desired act...

September is World Alzheimer's Month

September 2018 is the seventh annual World Alzheimer’s Month, an international campaign to raise dementia awareness and challenge stigma. According to Alzheimer’s Disease International, someone in the world develops dementia every three seconds. Worldwide, there are over 50 million people living with dementia in 2018; if effective risk-reduction strategi...

Scientists Discover a New Type of Brain Cell in Humans

A team of 34 international scientists have discovered a new type of brain cell in humans that is not found in mice and other animals used to model human brains in experiments. Rosehip neurons are an inhibitory neuron that forms synapses with pyramidal neurons. According to Dr. Trygve Bakken, co-author of the article in Nature and a neuroscientist at the...

‘Functional Fingerprint’ May Identify Brains Over a Lifetime

Like the unique pattern of a fingertip can identify a person for a lifetime, researchers are exploring if the same is possible for the human brain through functional fingerprinting. “Functional fingerprinting”, a phrase coined by Damien Fair, associate professor of neuroscience and psychiatry at Oregon Health and Science University, is a method used t...

Brain Awareness Week

BrainFutures is proud to partner in Brain Awareness Week, the global campaign to increase awareness about the progress and benefits of brain research. Check out this Brain Brief on the Dynamic Interplay of Genetics, and learn more about education and events worldwide at www.dana.org/baw/ ...

12 Finalists to take part in the Brainnovations Pitch Contest

SharpBrains, a partner of BrainFutures, is proud and excited to announce the 12 groundbreaking startups that will get to pitch their idea and solutions at the Brainnovations Pitch Contest on December 6th, hosted during Day 2 of the 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (December 5-7th). These are the 12 selected Finalists, together with their summary eleva...

FDA Permits Marketing of Mobile Medical Application for Substance Use Disorder

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration permitted marketing of the first mobile medical application to help treat substance use disorders (SUD). The Reset application is intended to be used with outpatient therapy to treat alcohol, cocaine, marijuana and stimulant SUDs. The application is not intended to be used to treat opioid dependence. Learn the ful...

New AI algorithm monitors sleep with radio waves

More than 50 million Americans suffer from sleep disorders, and diseases including Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s can also disrupt sleep. Diagnosing and monitoring these conditions usually requires attaching electrodes and a variety of other sensors to patients, which can further disrupt their sleep. To make it easier to diagnose and study sleep problems, ...

SF Giants turn to brain training headsets to help players improve

Brain training headsets are improving athletic performance Baseball legend Yogi Berra once observed, in his own inimitable way, that “90 percent of this game is half mental.” Now the San Francisco Giants are employing high-tech brain training headgear hoping to help players with that other half. The Giants are using the Halo Sport, a headphone-like devi...