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Athlete Well-Being & brain health

Below are the best resources we could find on Athlete Well-Being and brain health.

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Dr. Joaquin Farias’ Lecture on Dystonia at Harvard University

Dr. Farias talks about dystonia, a movement disorder.

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Boundless: Upgrade Your Brain, Optimize Your Body & Defy Aging

In a perfect world, you would be able to have it all: complete optimization of mind, body, and spirit. In Boundless, the New York Times bestselling author of Beyond Training and health and fitness leader Ben Greenfield offers a first-of-its-kind blueprint for total human optimization.

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The Athletic Brain

An experienced athlete takes in important visual cues, tunes out extraneous ones, spots patterns and makes plans—all in the blink of an eye.

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BrainHealth Institute for Athletes

Learn more about the Center for BrainHealth’s traumatic brain injury research and how the BrainHealth Institute for Athletes is changing the conversation about concussions.

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Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

Did you know you can beat stress, lift your mood, fight memory loss, sharpen your intellect, and function better than ever simply by elevating your heart rate and breaking a sweat? The evidence is incontrovertible: Aerobic exercise physically remodels our brains for peak performance.

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Move Your Body, Bolster Your Brain

A single, moderate workout may immediately change how our brains function and how well we recognize common names and similar information, according to a promising new study of exercise, memory and aging.

Gretchen Reynolds

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Athletes Have Healthier Brains that Can Actually Hear Better, Study Says

At the lab of Neurobiologist Nina Kraus at Northwestern University, she studies “Brainvolts.” She and her colleagues can attach a series of electrodes to your scalp and record the electricity your brain produces in response to a sound. Katie Johnston reports.

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Concussions and Our Kids: America's Leading Expert on How to Protect Young Athletes and Keep Sports Safe

From Washington to Quebec, from offices at the NFL to the New York Times, from the NHL players’ union to the soccer fields of Anytown, U.S.A., people are talking about concussions. At the center of this crisis—and one of the key reasons for this increased awareness—is Dr.

Robert Cantu, Mark Hyman

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Understanding the Mind of the Elite Athlete

Can sports sharpen the body and mind?

Michelle W. Voss

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How Students' Brains Are in Danger on the Field

Research makes clear the drastic effects of head injuries on young athletes, and advocates are asking states and schools to do more.

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