Tech­nol­ogy and inno­va­tion expert Jerry Michal­ski hosted on May 6th a great  Yi-Tan Con­ver­sa­tion  titled Change Your Brain Tra­jec­tory,  dis­cussing the new book The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness: How to Opti­mize Brain Health and Per­for­mance at Any Age with co-author Alvaro Fer­nan­dez.

–> You can lis­ten to the 16-minute sum­mary HERE

Descrip­tion: We occa­sion­ally take excur­sions into our gray mat­ter. Read the rest of this entry »

Heads up: these are some of my upcom­ing talks, start­ing tomor­row with a brief insight blast on Upgrad­ing edu­ca­tion and health with the brain in mind at the World Eco­nomic Forum on Latin Amer­ica. If you’re a Sharp­Brains friend and speak­ing at/ attend­ing any, please let me know so we can connect.

• April 23–25, Lima, Peru: Upgrad­ing edu­ca­tion and health with the brain in mind, at the World Eco­nomic Forum on Latin Amer­ica 2013
• May 1–2, San Fran­cisco: Think, Think, Think: Cog­ni­tive Gam­ing Plat­forms, at Neu­rogam­ing
• May 15–16, Toronto:  The Web as a Gym for the Brain, at mesh13
• May 20, Wash­ing­ton, DC: Inno­vat­ing for the 50+, at Aging 2.0
• June 12, Vic­to­ria, BC, Canada: How Can We Invest In Our Brains To Boost Inno­va­tion and Resilience, at the Con­fer­ence Board of Canada’s Annual Coun­cil of Human Resource Executives

The 2013 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit will fea­ture nearly 40 of the world’s top sci­en­tists, inno­va­tors and decision-makers address­ing the cen­tral theme of “How Can Neuroscience-based Inno­va­tion Enhance Behav­ioral and Brain Health?”

The two-day vir­tual sum­mit will include eight to ten panel dis­cus­sions chaired by some of the world’s most accom­plished and inspir­ing young trail­blaz­ers, rec­og­nized as Young Global Lead­ers (YGLs) by the World Eco­nomic Forum. The seven YGLs who have joined the Summit’s Steer­ing Group are:

• Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, CEO of Sharp­Brains (YGL Class of 2012);
• Andrew Lee, VP of Emerg­ing Busi­ness at Aetna (YGL Class of 2011);
• Corinna Lathan, CEO of Anthro­Tronix (YGL Class of 2006);
• Hilal Lashuel, Vis­it­ing Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor at Stan­ford Uni­ver­sity (YGL Class of 2012);
• Jayne Plun­kett, Head of Casu­alty Rein­sur­ance at Swiss Re (YGL Class of 2010);
• Olivier Oul­lier, Pro­fes­sor of Behav­ioral and Brain Sci­ences at France’s Aix-Marseille Uni­ver­sity (YGL Class of 2011); and
• Tan Le, CEO of Emo­tiv Life­sciences (YGL Class of 2009).

To Learn More and Reg­is­ter, visit 2013 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit: How Can Neuroscience-based Inno­va­tion Enhance Behav­ioral and Brain Health?

How will you be cel­e­brat­ing Brain Aware­ness Week next week (March 11^th–17^th , 2013)?

Here’s a sug­ges­tion: you can start watch­ing, at a spe­cial 95% pric­ing dis­count, more than 25 hours of exclu­sive pre­sen­ta­tions from over 40 lead­ing minds as they dis­cuss the lat­est on applied neu­ro­plas­tic­ity and brain health.  These pre­sen­ta­tions, which took place dur­ing the 2012 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit, shed light on some of the most impor­tant pri­or­i­ties for brain health today and in the future: Read the rest of this entry »

Much of health­care deliv­ery has tra­di­tion­ally been set-up to deal with a ‘brain­less body’; yet we con­sis­tently com­plain that we can­not change patient and con­sumer behav­iours and main­tain adher­ence to treat­ment pro­grammes. Health­care sys­tems are now recog­nis­ing the lim­its of this model and that there are major ben­e­fits to bet­ter com­pre­hend­ing and engag­ing cog­ni­tive func­tion Read the rest of this entry »

We will dis­cuss the main find­ings and inno­va­tion opportunities/ chal­lenges iden­ti­fied in Sharp­Brains’ new mar­ket report The Dig­i­tal Brain Health Mar­ket 2012–2020: Web-based, mobile and biometrics-based tech­nol­ogy to assess, mon­i­tor and enhance cog­ni­tion and brain func­tion­ing.

When: Wednes­day, Jan­u­ary 30th, 2013, 1–2.30pm US East­ern Time (live webi­nar will be recorded for later view­ing by reg­is­trants) Read the rest of this entry »

As we’re prepar­ing to release a major mar­ket report, we’d like to ensure we have all inter­ested reporters, ana­lysts and blog­gers in our Media List. If you’re inter­ested in brain health & inno­va­tion and want to be noti­fied as soon as the report becomes avail­able, please Fill This Form and let us know a bit about the publication/s you are writ­ing for. Thank you!