The “Holy Grail”: How to drive behavior change by harnessing neuroplasticity and emotions

By SharpBrains | November 17, 2014

— CWRU nurs­ing school award­ed $2.35 mil­lion to study the link between the brain and health behav­ior change (press release): “A five-year, $2.35 mil­lion grant from the Nation­al Insti­tute of Nurs­ing Research will allow researchers from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nurs­ing, Col­lege of Arts and Sci­ences and the School of Med­i­cine at Case…

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Invitation for SharpBrains Summit Participants to Comment on Meeting Report and Join Council

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 16, 2011

Over 50 insight­ful and fun mem­bers of the world­wide Sharp­Brains com­mu­ni­ty had the oppor­tu­ni­ty to gath­er in DC, New York and San Fran­cis­co last month in order to meet in per­son ‑often for the first time!- and to dis­cuss next steps to dri­ve mean­ing­ful inno­va­tion in the brain health and fit­ness space. It is our pleasure…

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Scientia Pro Publica: Answers to 28 popular and not-so-popular questions

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 27, 2010 |

Wel­come to the XL edi­tion of Sci­en­tia Pro Pub­lica (or, since we are try­ing to speak Eng­lish, the 40th edi­tion of “Sci­ence for the Peo­ple”), the rotat­ing blog car­ni­val that show­cases the finest sci­ence, med­ical and envi­ron­ment writ­ing pub­lished in the blo­gos­phere. Quick now — ask a ques­tion, any ques­tion, that comes to mind. Chances…

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UCSF study looks for Bay Area participants

By UCSF Gazzaley Lab | July 12, 2010

We often hear inter­est from peo­ple of all ages in being par­tic­i­pants in the cog­ni­tive research we are doing in our UCSF lab. How­ev­er, all of our exper­i­ments to date have been focused on under 20 year olds and the over 60 age group, and many peo­ple fall in between. Well, we have just launched…

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New Research Partnership in Cognitive Aging

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 2, 2010 |

via Press release: The Research Part­ner­ship in Cog­ni­tive Aging, a pub­­lic-pri­­vate effort to pro­mote the study of brain func­tion with age, will award up to $28 mil­lion over five years to 17 research grants to exam­ine the neur­al and behav­ioral pro­files of healthy cog­ni­tive aging and explore inter­ven­tions that may pre­vent, reduce or reverse cognitive…

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