Quick heads-up: Early-bird reg­is­tra­tion to the first Neu­rogam­ing con­fer­ence expires on April 1st, 2013. Check out the agenda now and see if you want to join a great ros­ter of indus­try speak­ers. I’ll be run­ning this ses­sion on May 1st:

Think, Think, Think: Cog­ni­tive Gam­ing Plat­forms. This panel will dis­cuss how break­through tech­nolo­gies like tran­scra­nial direct cur­rent stim­u­la­tion, ultra­sonic brain stim­u­la­tion, eye track­ing, and Read the rest of this entry »

Just a quick note: we’ll host a webi­nar on Jan­u­ary 30th to dis­cuss key mar­ket pre­dic­tions based on “The Dig­i­tal Brain Health Mar­ket 2012–2020: Web-based, mobile and biometrics-based tech­nol­ogy to assess, mon­i­tor and enhance cog­ni­tion and brain func­tion­ing”, our new mar­ket report.

Here are 10 pre­dic­tions, many of which will likely be real­ized before the end of 2013: 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 »

Open a week­end New York Times or Wall Street Jour­nal and you’ll find a whole sec­tion with detailed infor­ma­tion and advice for indi­vid­u­als look­ing to invest wisely. What you will not find, how­ever, is com­pa­ra­ble infor­ma­tion and advice for invest­ing in your most impor­tant asset of all: your brain. Pre­cisely because it (usu­ally) does its job so smoothly and effec­tively, it’s all too easy to for­get that your brain is there and that it needs to be invested in just as with any­thing else we value and want to con­tinue reap­ing ben­e­fits from. And with more than 2 bil­lion peo­ple world­wide cur­rently suf­fer­ing from brain-based health and pro­duc­tiv­ity chal­lenges with a result­ing global eco­nomic bur­den of more than $2 tril­lion, it’s also an issue of some importance.

We’ve made a lot of progress Read the rest of this entry »

Source: SharpBrains.com’s Report on The Dig­i­tal Brain Health Mar­ket 2012–2020

5 Mar­ket Lead­ers   Read the rest of this entry »

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 ADHD helped by Cog­ni­tive Behav­ioral Ther­apy, by Dr. David Rabiner
• In the Age of Google, Should Schools Teach Mem­o­riza­tion Skills?, by Dr. Bill Klemm



• Nav­i­gat­ing The Many Dan­gers of Expe­ri­ence and Think Fresh: When Is a Ham­mer Not a Ham­mer?, by Dr. Shlomo Breznitz & Collins Hemingway

Research and News:

• Why Man­ag­ing Stress is Cru­cial for Brain Fitness
• The Men­tal Game: How High-Level Ath­letes Remain Calm and Focused
• Brain train­ing (cog­ni­tive behav­ioural ther­apy) seen as most cost-effective treat­ment for chronic fatigue syndrome
• Lumos Labs (devel­oper of lumosity.com) raises $31.5 million
• The (Tai­lored) Future of New Dri­ver Training

Have a nice Labor Day Weekend!

(Source of brain pic: BigStockPhoto)

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 Dis­cov­ery focuses its dig­i­tal strat­egy around strength­en­ing its posi­tion as the #1 non­fic­tion media com­pany across all screens, we also see strate­gic growth oppor­tu­ni­ties in select invest­ments in the next gen­er­a­tion knowl­edge space,” said JB Per­rette, Chief Dig­i­tal Offi­cer, Dis­cov­ery Com­mu­ni­ca­tions. “Discovery’s com­mit­ment to ignit­ing people’s curios­ity and pas­sion for learn­ing is a nat­ural fit with Lumosity’s suc­cess in brain train­ing. We are proud to take the lead­er­ship posi­tion in this round of financ­ing and look for­ward to sup­port­ing Lumosity’s expan­sion around the world.”

To Learn More:

• Brain Train­ing Top 10 Future Trends