Monthly e‑newsletter: Do you actually like that song or do you merely think you do?

By SharpBrains | November 30, 2017

Time for Sharp­Brains’ Novem­ber e‑newsletter, explor­ing the fron­tiers in applied brain sci­ence and start­ing this time with a fas­ci­nat­ing study and ini­tia­tive. New think­ing Neu­roin­for­mat­ics meets music: Do you actu­al­ly like that song or do you mere­ly think you do? Sur­vey: Par­ents view Exer­cise as more effec­tive than Pre­scrip­tion Med­ica­tions to treat chil­dren with ADHD Top Resources for…

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Neuroinformatics meets music: Do you actually like that song or do you merely think you do?

By Dr Dimitrios Adamos | November 28, 2017 |

As a neu­roin­for­mat­ics researcher, my vision is to bridge con­sumers wear­ing mobile EEG devices with online music rec­om­men­da­tion ser­vices. Our research group is already work­ing in that direc­tion, decod­ing brain­waves while lis­ten­ing to music in order to pre­dict “Like” rat­ings and then sub­mit the feed­back to music stream­ing ser­vices. As an exam­ple, this past Sep­tem­ber we were asked…

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Next: Brain modelling platforms, such as Baycrest’s Virtual Brain, to accelerate brain health innovation

By SharpBrains | February 17, 2016

A Vir­tu­al Brain – The Ben­e­fits of Brain Mod­el­ling (Brain Blog­ger): “Brain Blog­ger recent­ly dis­cov­ered that sci­en­tists are poised to deliv­er the first vir­tu­al sim­u­la­tion of the human brain from a tru­ly fas­ci­nat­ing talk by Dr. Randy McIn­tosh, Vicepres­i­dent of Research and Direc­tor of Baycrest’s Rot­man Research Insti­tute, pre­sent­ed at 

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The Digital Future of Mental Health

By SharpBrains | October 4, 2012

Fun futur­is­tic vision over at The Atlantic, titled The Extreme­ly Per­son­al Com­put­er: The Dig­i­tal Future of Men­tal Health: “It’s 2018, and you’re not feel­ing your best. Yes­ter­day, on the phone with Com­cast, you for­got your social secu­ri­ty num­ber, and had to call your mom to get it…You fire up your PC and dig out your biomonitor…

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Brain fitness meets HRV and EEG biometrics and neuroinformatics

By Yann Renard | September 27, 2012

As an active par­tic­i­pant in the Open­ViBE project (a soft­ware plat­form to design, test and use Brain-Com­put­er Inter­faces), in sci­en­tif­ic as well as tech­ni­cal capac­i­ties, I have long been focused on ways to process, ana­lyze and put brain sig­nals to prac­ti­cal use. When I start­ed read­ing on the sub­ject of brain fit­ness a few years…

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36-Hour Offer: Integrative Neuroscience, Personalized Medicine and the 2011 SharpBrains Summit

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 3, 2011

An impres­sive recent ref­er­ence book on the future of brain care is Inte­gra­tive Neu­ro­science and Per­son­al­ized Med­i­cine, edit­ed by Evian Gor­don and Stephen H. Koslow (Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty Press; $89.95). Book descrip­tion: This book takes an in depth and hard look at the cur­rent sta­tus and future direc­tion of treat­ment pre­dic­tive mark­ers in Per­son­al­ized Med­i­cine for…

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