(Editor’s Note: this is Part 2 of the con­ver­sa­tion between David Coleiro and Alvaro Fer­nan­dez on the future of brain health. You can read Part 1 Here)

Non-invasive tech­nolo­gies
There is now a grow­ing toolkit of non-invasive tech­nolo­gies which can be used in brain train­ing. Exam­ples of these include: 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 »

The Brain: On the Front­line of Dig­i­tal Health in the Work­place (Huff­in­g­ton Post):

“…It is esti­mated that some two bil­lion world­wide, one-third of the global pop­u­la­tion, suf­fer from brain-based health and pro­duc­tiv­ity chal­lenges with a related cost bur­den of more than $2 tril­lion. The broad scope of this mar­ket is empha­sized fur­ther when con­sid­er­a­tion is given to 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 »

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 ago, I rec­og­nized the poten­tial to enhance a vari­ety of brain train­ing approaches, from med­i­ta­tion to cog­ni­tive train­ing, by deploy­ing Read the rest of this entry »

Time for Sharp­Brains’ July 2012 eNewslet­ter, fea­tur­ing in this occa­sion an in-depth arti­cle on why and how to Invest in Brain Health to Drive Inno­va­tion and Pros­per­ity, by Veronika Litinski.

Fea­tured Perspectives:

• Invest in Brain Health to Drive Inno­va­tion and Pros­per­ity, by Veronika Litinski
• Under­stand­ing, and Nur­tur­ing, Resilience, by Andrew Zolli
• How Do Words, such as Yes and No, Change Our Brains and Lives?, by Dr. Andrew New­berg and Mark Waldman
• Study: Adap­tive Work­ing Mem­ory Train­ing Can Reduce ADHD-related Off-Task Behav­ior, by Dr. David Rabiner
• Pro­mot­ing Men­tal Agility through Cog­ni­tive Con­trol and Men­tal Rep­re­sen­ta­tion, by Judith Tin­gley, PhD

• Cog­ni­tive Mon­i­tor­ing Emerg­ing as Crit­i­cal for Health
• Gait Changes as Indi­ca­tor of Cog­ni­tive Health Decline
• New & Excel­lent Review of Com­put­er­ized Cog­ni­tive Train­ing with Older Adults
• Brain Dam­age, Ther­a­peu­tics and the Blood-Brain Barrier
• Necomimi Avail­able in USA
• Car­diac Surgery Can Impact Long-term Cog­ni­tive Functioning
• Cog­ni­tive Deficits May Hin­der Self Care in Patients with Heart Failure
• Brain Researchers Start Map­ping the Human ‘Connectome’

Sharp­Brains News:

• More Thumbs Up for 2012 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit (23 and counting!)
• Seven Most Pop­u­lar 2012 Sharp­Brains Sum­mit Record­ings Now Avail­able at $75 each

Have a great month of August!