We were very glad this morn­ing to find this cus­tomer review in Amazon.com, dis­cussing our new book:

“My fam­ily has a his­tory of demen­tia and Alzheimer’s, so my wife and I are always on the look­out for new and help­ful infor­ma­tion about keep­ing our brains strong as we age. We’ve read more than a few and I haven’t writ­ten reviews of any of them. I wanted to share a bit about why I did like this book and what prompted me to take the time to write a review. I found this book to be burst­ing with use­ful infor­ma­tion. Read the rest of this entry »

Quick heads-up: I’ll be deliv­er­ing two keynote talks next week, one to senior HR exec­u­tives, one to dig­i­tal health pio­neers. Since the first chap­ter of our new book is titled “START WITH THE BRAIN IN MIND,” we’re glad to see the grow­ing inter­est in applied brain & cog­ni­tive sci­ence from a vari­ety of per­spec­tives! Read the rest of this entry »

Time for Sharp­Brains’ May 2013 e-newsletter, which fea­tures a vari­ety of arti­cles offer­ing a more opti­mistic and evidence-based approach to brain and men­tal health than cur­rent practices.

First of all, let us high­light that Sci­en­tific Amer­i­can just pub­lished an excel­lent review of our new book. The author sums it up by say­ing that “…I wish I had read this awe­some guide when I was much younger…I find the emerg­ing field of neu­ro­plas­tic­ity immensely excit­ing, and guides like this one are both hope­ful and rea­son­able.” As a reader points out, the word “awe­some” does not appear often in science-oriented publications…so we are espe­cially proud to see the book merit such treatment.

New think­ing:

• Founder of Sharp­Brains talks about brain health
• Six tips to build resilience and pre­vent brain-damaging stress
• Time to revamp psy­chi­a­try and men­tal health in light of mod­ern neuroscience?
• A new type of cog­ni­tive sci­ence think tank
• Why invest­ment in brain research is an intel­li­gent investment

New sci­ence:

• White House BRAIN Ini­tia­tive is a nice start, but too small and unfocused
• Demen­tia costs more than heart dis­ease, and can­cer. And it will balloon.
• Chal­leng­ing med­ical dogma: Men­tal exer­cise vs drugs, sup­ple­ments and phys­i­cal exer­cise to pre­vent cog­ni­tive decline
• What is the com­bined effect of phys­i­cal and men­tal training?
• Mon­i­tor­ing stress-related use of antipsy­chotic drugs in the military

New tools:

• Does brain train­ing work? Yes, if it meets these 5 conditions
• Cog­ni­tive enhance­ment in the future: elec­tric brain stim­u­la­tion plus cog­ni­tive training?
• The future of intu­itive tech­nol­ogy and neu­rocog­ni­tive care
• Train your brain with tar­geted videogames, not with cross­word puzzles
• Great Kirkus Review of The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness (“A stim­u­lat­ing, chal­leng­ing resource, full of solid infor­ma­tion and prac­ti­cal tips for improv­ing brain health.”)

That’s it for now. Have a stim­u­lat­ing June!

Elec­tri­cal Brain Stim­u­la­tion Helps Peo­ple Learn Math Faster (Wired): “…sci­en­tists stim­u­lated vol­un­teers’ brains with mild elec­tric cur­rent while they learned new arith­metic oper­a­tions based on made-up sym­bols. Peo­ple who received brain stim­u­la­tion dur­ing train­ing ses­sions on five con­sec­u­tive days learned two to five times faster than those who received sham stim­u­la­tion, and they retained a 30 to 40 per­cent per­for­mance edge six months later… Read the rest of this entry »

Each blue dot below rep­re­sents one of the 365 peo­ple who reg­is­tered to watch the lat­est on neu­ro­plas­tic­ity and brain health in honor of Brain Aware­ness Week 2013. They, together with the 195 par­tic­i­pants in the 2012 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit, can access the full pre­sen­ta­tions by 40+ brain sci­en­tists and indus­try pio­neers. Please sub­scribe to our free monthly eNewslet­ter to stay informed about future events!

Each blue dot below rep­re­sents one of the 300 peo­ple reg­is­tered so far in 27 coun­tries to watch the lat­est on neu­ro­plas­tic­ity and brain health, access­ing the pre­sen­ta­tions by 40+ sci­en­tists and pio­neers recorded dur­ing the 2012 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit.

You can check out the full Agenda here. And this is what par­tic­i­pants had to say about the qual­ity of the pre­sen­ta­tions: Read the rest of this entry »

Each blue dot rep­re­sents one of the 201 peo­ple reg­is­tered so far to watch the lat­est on neu­ro­plas­tic­ity and brain health dur­ing Brain Aware­ness Week 2013 (March 11-17th, 2013), rep­re­sent­ing over 20 coun­tries. Please join us! Read the rest of this entry »