5 Facts You Need To Know To Understand, Navigate And Enjoy The Digital Brain Health Revolution

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 12, 2017

— Hun­dreds of com­pa­nies around the globe, now includ­ing Elon Musk’s Neu­ralink and even Face­book,  are research­ing and devel­op­ing new ways to help brain own­ers be smarter, sharp­er, and health­i­er. What explains this flur­ry of activ­i­ty? Where may it be head­ed? To help you under­stand what’s going on, let me high­light five key facts that emerged…

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Witnessing an explosion of consumer-facing neurotechnologies to (potentially) harness lifelong neuroplasticity

By Apoorv Mathur | January 30, 2017

— Last week I shared some key sci­en­tif­ic, tech­no­log­i­cal and invest­ment trends rev­o­lu­tion­iz­ing Brain Health, based on my par­tic­i­pa­tion at the 2016 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit, and promised a sec­ond arti­cle more focused on the tech­nol­o­gy side of things. Here it is :-) Just a few weeks after the Sharp­Brains Sum­mit I also attend­ed CES 2017. While I enjoyed the myr­i­ad emerging…

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Survey of key scientific, technological and investment trends revolutionizing Brain Health in our Digital Age

By Apoorv Mathur | January 23, 2017

—– Last year I got very inter­est­ed in the func­tion­ing of the human brain and the sci­ence behind mind­ful­ness and learn­ing [1], so was quite excit­ed  to attend the Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit [2] in Decem­ber, indulging in the lat­est trends in applied neu­ro­science and dig­i­tal inno­va­tion. The Sum­mit focused on the theme of rein­vent­ing brain health in the digital…

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Best practices to fund, develop and commercialize evidence-based mental health innovation

By SharpBrains | December 30, 2016

Best prac­tices to fund, devel­op and com­mer­cial­ize evi­­dence-based inno­va­tion from Sharp­Brains In this ses­sion we dis­cuss key lessons learned for sci­en­tists and start-ups to suc­cess­ful­ly bring to mar­ket evi­­dence-based inno­v­a­tive solu­tions. We will present non-dilu­­tive fund­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties and com­mer­cial­iza­tion resources offered through the US small busi­ness research pro­grams, and a sci­en­tist and inven­tor turned serial…

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The National Institute of Mental Health gives $2M grant to identify factors that make working memory training work (or not)

By SharpBrains | October 24, 2016

Under­stand­ing Indi­vid­ual Dif­fer­ences: UC River­side psy­chol­o­gy pro­fes­sor receives $1.9 mil­lion grant to study mem­o­ry train­ing (press release): “Aaron Seitz, a psy­chol­o­gy pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, River­side and the direc­tor of the UCR Brain Game Cen­ter for men­tal fit­ness and well­be­ing, and Susanne Jaeg­gi, an asso­ciate pro­fes­sor at the school of edu­ca­tion at UC…

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