Eight research teams working with DARPA to discover best ways to activate neuroplasticity and accelerate learning

By SharpBrains | May 12, 2017

DARPA Funds Brain-Stim­u­la­­tion Research to Speed Learn­ing (DoD news): “The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is work­ing with sev­en U.S. uni­ver­si­ties and ele­ments of the Air Force and Army on research that seeks to stim­u­late the brain in a non-inva­­sive way to speed up learn­ing. DARPA announced the Tar­get­ed Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty Train­ing, or TNT, program

Read More

Enhancing cognition via brain training with a visual emphasis: Key neurotechnology patent #38

By SharpBrains | April 4, 2017
cognitive training

Today we high­light a 2010 patent assigned to Posit Sci­ence Cor­po­ra­tion, the devel­op­er of Brain­HQ brain train­ing sys­tem. (As men­tioned, we are fea­tur­ing foun­da­tion­al Per­va­sive Neu­rotech patents, from old­er to new­er by issue date, to get a bet­ter glimpse into emerg­ing trends) U.S. Patent No. 7,773,097: Visu­al empha­sis for cog­ni­tive train­ing exer­cis­es Assignee(s): Posit Sci­ence Cor­po­ra­tion Inventor(s):…

Read More

Update: To honor Brain Awareness Week 2017, let’s highlight 10 Key Facts To Harness Neuroplasticity And Improve Brain Fitness

By SharpBrains | March 23, 2017

— Last week was Brain Aware­ness Week, so let’s first of all dis­cuss these 10 Key Facts to Har­ness Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty & Improve Brain Fit­ness com­ing from the hun­dreds of sci­en­tif­ic and med­ical stud­ies we ana­lyzed to pre­pare the book The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness: How to Improve Brain Health and Per­for­mance at Any Age. And here’s the rest…

Read More

Update: Ten Common Myths About Brain Health, Debunked

By SharpBrains | March 29, 2016

—– Time for a new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains’ eNewslet­ter, full of stim­u­lat­ing arti­cles and teasers. Hap­py Read­ing :-) New think­ing: Let’s debunk ten brain myths that remain sur­pris­ing­ly pop­u­lar DARPA launch­es Tar­get­ed Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty Train­ing pro­gram to accel­er­ate cog­ni­tive skills train­ing Under new CEO, Lumos­i­ty to expand brain train­ing plat­form with focus on applied skills and broad­er social, wellness…

Read More