• Update: Is Having a Brain a Medical Condition?

    Updated: 2012-08-31 01:43:07
    Time for Sharp­Brains’ August 2012 eNewslet­ter, fea­tur­ing in this occasion multiple insightful perspectives on how emerging brain and cognitive science can be applied to  improve education, clinical practice, productivity and daily living. Featured Perspectives: Does Brain Fitness Require Medicalization? (or, Is Having a Brain a Medical Condition?), by Dr. Philip Toman New Study shows Teens with [...]

  • Does Brain Fitness Require Medicalization? Insights @ 2012 SharpBrains Virtual Summit

    Updated: 2012-08-30 22:11:25
    In June of this year, SharpBrains hosted its third annual online “virtual summit” on our evolving understanding of how the human brain works, and how it can be made to work better. As readers of this blog know, SharpBrains is a US-based market research firm and think tank dedicated to studying the scientific, social, and [...]

  • EPHA4 is a disease modifier of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    Updated: 2012-08-29 17:10:38
    Van Hoecke A, Schoonaert L, Lemmens R, Timmers M, Staats KA, Laird AS, Peeters E, Philips T, Goris A, Dubois B, Andersen PM, Al-Chalabi A, Thijs V, Turnley AM, van Vught PW, Veldink JH, Hardiman O, Van Den Bosch L, Gonzalez-Perez P, Van Damme P, Brown RH Jr, van den Berg LH, Robberecht W. EPHA4 is a disease modifier of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in animal models and in humans. Nat Med. 2012 Aug 26. doi: 10.1038/nm.2901. [Epub ahead of print]http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/vao...

  • LabBook August 24, 2012

    Updated: 2012-08-24 19:07:36
    Welcome to LabBook, our weekly roundup of University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences research news from around campus and the world wide web. Each Friday, LabBook will recap the week on the blog, link to news stories about our faculty and studies, and briefly summarize a handful of recent publications by our researchers. This [...]

  • Lumos Labs (developer of lumosity.com) raises $31.5 million

    Updated: 2012-08-23 16:39:20
    Lumos Labs Raises $31.5 million (press release): “Lumosity has raised $31.5 million in Series D financing led by publicly traded Discovery Communications. Existing investors FirstMark Capital, Harrison Metal, Menlo Ventures and Norwest Venture Partners also contributed. Lumosity, which makes online and mobile learning programs, has received a total of over $70 million in funding to date…“As [...]

  • Using Genetics to Prevent Chemotherapy Side Effects

    Updated: 2012-08-23 16:30:49
    When President Bill Clinton announced the completion of the first draft of the human genome in 2000, he said it would “revolutionize the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of most, if not all, human diseases.” At the time, the hope was that the Human Genome Project would uncover the roots of common diseases like cancer or [...]

  • Summer in the Research Lab

    Updated: 2012-08-16 21:39:19
    For many college students, summer means heading back home to Mom and Dad’s house, hanging around and wishing you were back at school with your friends. Maybe you take a class or two, or work some menial job to make spending money for the fall (I spent the summer after my freshman year washing cars [...]

  • The (Tailored) Future of New Driver Training

    Updated: 2012-08-16 20:21:12
    New driver training study highlights importance of post-licence skills (Science Network): “Crash rates are highest immediately after licensing…so there is potential for improving safety during the first six months,” Dr Beanland says…“Driving involves a highly complex skill set, so drivers need some kind of training and practice to acquire those skills…The paper found cognitive skills [...]

  • Why Managing Stress is Crucial for Brain Fitness

    Updated: 2012-08-13 18:51:15
    How stress and depression can shrink the brain (Yale News): “Major depression or chronic stress can cause the loss of brain volume, a condition that contributes to both emotional and cognitive impairment. Now a team of researchers led by Yale scientists has discovered one reason why this occurs — a single genetic switch that triggers [...]

  • The Mental Game: How High-Level Athletes Remain Calm and Focused

    Updated: 2012-08-10 15:25:24
    The Mental Preparation of High-Level Athletes (briefing paper by the Dana Foundation): “Baseball Hall of Famer Yogi Berra is credited with saying that “90 percent of the game is half mental.” Over the years, the line has been appropriated beyond the world of baseball to explain the importance of factors like focus and motivation to [...]

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