The BrainArt Awards & Exhi­bi­tion  Gallery is now open for vot­ing (by Lik­ing selected works via Face­book but­ton). The Brain Art Awards is an inter­na­tional com­pe­ti­tion with ten media cat­e­gories, open to any­one aged 14 — 99. It offers a $5,000 cash prize to the major win­ner, and gar­ners a fas­ci­nat­ing inter­na­tional response to a spe­cific area of human expe­ri­ence. This year’s theme is ‘Life Plea­sures and the Brain.’

To Learn More:

• The Next Fron­tier: Neu­ro­science, Busi­ness and the Arts

The neu­ro­science of lan­guage, con­scious­ness, and com­mu­ni­ca­tion raises many fun­da­men­tal ques­tions, the answers to which con­sis­tently defy def­i­n­i­tion. For exam­ple: when we speak, where do our words come from? Our brain, or our mind? And what do we mean by mind? Sim­i­lar dilem­mas arise when we try to study the nature of con­scious­ness. What is it, and where is it? Is it gen­er­ated solely by neural activ­ity, or is it a sep­a­rate force that influ­ences the activ­ity of the brain? Hypothe­ses abound, but nobody seems to know for certain.

How­ever, we do have a few clues that illu­mi­nate the rela­tion­ship between the brain, the mind, and Read the rest of this entry »

The 2012 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit: Opti­miz­ing Health through Neu­ro­plas­tic­ity, Inno­va­tion and Data, held June 7-14th, con­cluded with a call to enhance brain health by har­ness­ing neuroplasticity-based appli­ca­tions, big data plat­forms and con­sumer inter­est to aug­ment the tra­di­tional reliance on disease-based phar­ma­co­log­i­cal inter­ven­tions and frag­mented clin­i­cal trials.

All ses­sions held dur­ing the 2012 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit were recorded, and all audio­vi­sual record­ings are avail­able now for online access until July 31th, 2013. How to Watch 2012 Sharp­Brains Sum­mit Recordings:

1. If you already have login infor­ma­tion, you can sim­ply visit the Sum­mit Agenda and click on the ses­sion you want to watch
2. If you want to order 1-year access to Sum­mit Record­ings, Click HERE. You can order the Full Record­ings for all 4-Days of 2012 Sharp­Brains Sum­mit (includ­ing 2 days of Sum­mit, Expo Day, and Edu­ca­tional Work­shops; all for $325), or order the Record­ings cor­re­spond­ing to one par­tic­u­lar day ($150).

We are proud to report that 95% of respon­dents in a post-Summit sur­vey expressed a High or Very High level of sat­is­fac­tion with their Sum­mit expe­ri­ence and with the Qual­ity of Con­tent. We are even prouder to have started receiv­ing glow­ing endorse­ments from research lead­ers and indus­try inno­va­tors includ­ing: Read the rest of this entry »

We look for­ward to the final day @ 2012 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit, today, fea­tur­ing four great edu­ca­tional work­shops on: Read the rest of this entry »

Dr. Stern will dis­cuss the lat­est evi­dence and impli­ca­tions on What the Cog­ni­tive Reserve Means for Brain Health, at the upcom­ing 2012 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit (June 7-14th, 2012).

Dr. Yaakov Stern directs the Cog­ni­tive Neu­ro­science Divi­sion of the Sergievsky Cen­ter and is Direc­tor of Neu­ropsy­chol­ogy for the Mem­ory Dis­or­ders Clinic at the New York State Psy­chi­atric Insti­tute. He also directs the post-doctoral train­ing pro­gram Neu­ropsy­chol­ogy Read the rest of this entry »

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer your­self any direc­tion you choose.” — Oh The Places You’ll Go, Dr.Seuss.

The space between cre­ativ­ity and entre­pre­neur­ship is one of the most excit­ing areas unfold­ing in our mod­ern world right now. Read the rest of this entry »

Please take a look at the  pre­lim­i­nary Sum­mit Agenda fea­tur­ing a stel­lar ros­ter of con­firmed Speak­ers and Mod­er­a­tors and  includ­ing sev­eral in-depths workshops:

• How Nation­wide Insur­ance rolled-out a Brain-based Cor­po­rate Well­ness Ini­tia­tive, with Kath­leen Herath, Asso­ciate Vice Pres­i­dent Health & Pro­duc­tiv­ity, Nation­wide Insurance.
• How to Con­nect Neu­ro­science and Spe­cial Edu­ca­tion: A School-based Exam­ple, with Howard Eaton, CEO, Eaton Edu­ca­tional Group and Annette Good­man, Chief Edu­ca­tion Offi­cer, Arrow­smith Program.
• How to Set Up a Brain Fit­ness Cen­ter to Drive Cog­ni­tive Retrain­ing and Rehab, with Kate Sul­li­van, Direc­tor of the Brain Fit­ness Cen­ter, Wal­ter Reed National Mil­i­tary Med­ical Center.
• How to Improve Cog­ni­tive Care and Pro­long Inde­pen­dence in Senior Liv­ing, with Rod­ney Stoops, Admin­is­tra­tor, Prov­i­dence Place Retire­ment Community.

To Learn More, you can click on:

• Sum­mit Speak­ers and Moderators
• Sum­mit Agenda
• How to Reg­is­ter at early-bird rates