Empowering communities with better brain health tools and literacy

By SharpBrains | December 22, 2016

Empow­er com­mu­ni­ties with bet­ter brain health tools and lit­er­a­cy from Sharp­Brains What role should com­mu­ni­ty and care­givers play in brain health and men­tal health, and how can tech­nol­o­gy aid their efforts–for exam­ple in shar­ing rel­e­vant data with/ from doc­tors? How are we going to edu­cate and empow­er every­one with essen­tial knowl­edge and best prac­tices? Chair:…

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Empowering communities with better brain health tools and literacy

By SharpBrains | December 5, 2016

—– We are look­ing for­ward to the 2016 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit start­ing tomor­row, Tues­day Decem­ber 6th! 40 amaz­ing speak­ers, 10+ ses­sions includ­ing the crit­i­cal and often over­looked need to Empow­er com­mu­ni­ties with bet­ter brain health tools and lit­er­a­cy – What role should com­mu­ni­ty and care­givers play in brain health and men­tal health, and how can tech­nol­o­gy aid their…

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Announcement: Four new excellent Speakers @ 2016 SharpBrains Virtual Summit

By SharpBrains | November 4, 2016

We are delight­ed to announce four new excel­lent Speak­ers at the upcom­ing 2016 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: Rein­vent­ing Brain Health in the Dig­i­tal Age (Decem­ber 6–8, 2016): Dr. Dou­glas Ziedo­nis, Pro­fes­sor and Chair of the Depart­ment of Psy­chi­a­try at at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Mass­a­chu­setts Med­ical School Dr. Gregg Jacobs, Behav­ioral Sleep Med­i­cine Spe­cial­ist and Founder of CBT‑I Dr.…

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Understand your connectome, understand yourself

By Sebastian Seung @ MIT | October 17, 2016

—– NO ROAD, NO trail can pen­e­trate this for­est. The long and del­i­cate branch­es of its trees lie every­where, chok­ing space with their exu­ber­ant growth. No sun­beam can fly a path tor­tu­ous enough to nav­i­gate the nar­row spaces between these entan­gled branch­es. All the trees of this dark for­est grew from 100 bil­lion seeds planted…

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To Be (Your Connectome), or Not to Be (Your Genome)

By SharpBrains | February 6, 2012

The brain’s bil­lions of neu­rons resem­ble trees of many species and come in many fan­tas­tic shapes. Only the most deter­mined explor­ers can hope to cap­ture a glimpse of this forest’s inte­ri­or, and even they see lit­tle, and see it poor­ly. Would your con­nec­tome reveal any­thing inter­est­ing about you? Learn about con­nec­tome from this book.

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