For invasive cognitive enhancement to work, firms will need to validate both the “neuro” and the “tech”

By SharpBrains | June 9, 2017

— A Hard­ware Update for the Human Brain (The Wall Street Jour­nal): “The field that gave Emi­ly her life back is known as neu­rotech­nol­o­gy, or sim­ply neurotech—a mar­riage of neu­rol­o­gy, neu­ro­science, neu­ro­surgery and the kind of hard­ware that goes into smart­phones. Today, most neu­rotech com­pa­nies are focused on med­ical appli­ca­tions, which 

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Gaming and Neuroscience: Opportunities and Challenges

By Aki Nikolaidis | October 4, 2011

A cou­ple weeks ago I attend­ed the Enter­tain­ment Soft­ware and Cog­ni­tive Neu­rother­a­peu­tics Con­fer­ence, ESCoNS, at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia San Fran­cis­co. The speak­ers’ talks were insight­ful, sur­pris­ing, and inspir­ing in many regards. The pur­pose of this meet­ing was to bring togeth­er great minds in a vari­ety of fields from neu­ro­science to game design and to…

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Science Blog Carnival, Up at Providentia

By Dr. Pascale Michelon | December 6, 2010

A new edi­tion of Sci­en­tia Pro Pub­lica, the biweek­ly blog car­ni­val that “show­cases the finest sci­ence, med­ical and envi­ron­ment writ­ing pub­lished in the blo­gos­phere”, is avail­able now, host­ed by Prov­i­den­tia, To enjoy, click Here.

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Scientia Pro Publica #16: Us, Friends, and Society

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 16, 2009 |

Wel­come to the 16th edi­tion  of Sci­en­tia Pro Pub­li­ca, the blog car­ni­val  that cel­e­brates the best sci­ence, nature and med­ical writ­ing pub­lished in the blo­gos­phere with­in the past 60 days. What are some of the fas­ci­nat­ing top­ics you can explore and dis­cuss with this group of blog­gers? Sci­ence & Us The Evolv­ing Mind: What’s the point of…

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