Just a quick note: next Wednes­day, Feb­ru­ary 27th, we’ll host the sec­ond and last webi­nar  to dis­cuss key mar­ket and com­pet­i­tive analy­ses 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. Read the rest of this entry »

Just a quick note: we’ll host a webi­nar this Wednes­day, Feb­ru­ary 6th, to dis­cuss key analy­ses and fore­casts 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. Read the rest of this entry »

Time for Sharp­Brains’ Decem­ber 2012 eNewslet­ter, fea­tur­ing the forward-looking arti­cle Got Brain? Invest­ing in Our Most Pre­cious Asset in 2013: “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.” Click to keep read­ing.

Brain health Q&A with Dr. San­dra Chap­man (Jan­u­ary 4th, 2013): We are pleased to announce that Dr. San­dra Chap­man, Direc­tor of the Cen­ter for Brain­Health at The Uni­ver­sity of Texas at Dal­las and one of the most insight­ful speak­ers at the 2012 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit, will be answer­ing ques­tions from Sharp­Brains read­ers on Jan­u­ary 4th, 2013.

Webi­nar on The State of the Dig­i­tal Brain Health Mar­ket (Jan­u­ary 17th, 2013): We will dis­cuss the main mar­ket find­ings and inno­va­tion oppor­tu­ni­ties iden­ti­fied in Sharp­Brains’ new mar­ket report with pro­fes­sion­als who order the mar­ket report before Jan­u­ary 17th, 2013. The list cur­rently includes inno­va­tors at the Alzheimer’s Asso­ci­a­tion, Anthro­Tronix, Arrow­smith Pro­gram, BCM Tech­nolo­gies, Brain Resource, Brain State Tech­nolo­gies, Cogmed, Cog­nic­iti, Dig­i­tal Arte­facts, Hitachi, Jef­fer­son Part­ners, Lumos Labs, NeoCogita, and Shire, among others.

Max­i­miz­ing brain fit­ness and men­tal well-being improves both pub­lic health and indi­vid­ual qual­ity of life: We’re hav­ing a good con­ver­sa­tion among Sharp­Brains Sum­mit par­tic­i­pants, prompted by the blog post Life­long brain well­ness and performance–not med­ical disease–drives grow­ing demand for dig­i­tal brain health solu­tions.

That’s all until next year. Wish­ing you a very happy and pro­duc­tive 2013!

- The Sharp­Brains Team

PS1: Click to learn More about the report The Dig­i­tal Brain Health Mar­ket 2012–2020: Web-based, mobile and biometrics-based tech­nol­ogy to assess, mon­i­tor and enhance cog­ni­tion and brain func­tion­ing:

PS2: Reg­is­tered par­tic­i­pants in pre­vi­ous Sharp­Brains Sum­mits can order the mar­ket report at a dis­count before Jan­u­ary 5th. Please con­tact us for details.

Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg and I, co-authors of The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness, will cover the main high­lights from our new book and address the ques­tions sub­mit­ted by read­ers.
When: Tues­day July 21st, 10am Pacific Time; 1pm East­ern Time.

How to Reg­is­ter: Click HERE for more infor­ma­tion and to Reg­is­ter.
Title: The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness:
18 Inter­views with Sci­en­tists, Prac­ti­cal Advice, and Prod­uct Reviews, to Keep Your Brain Sharp

Book descrip­tion: While most of us have heard the phrase “use it or lose it,” very few under­stand what “it” means, or how to prop­erly “use it” in order to main­tain brain func­tion and fit­ness. The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness is an invalu­able guide that helps read­ers nav­i­gate grow­ing brain research and iden­tify the lifestyle fac­tors and prod­ucts that con­tribute to brain fit­ness. By gath­er­ing insights from eigh­teen of the world’s top sci­en­tists and offer­ing tools and detailed descrip­tions of over twenty prod­ucts, this book is an essen­tial guide to the field of brain fit­ness, neu­ro­plas­tic­ity and cog­ni­tive health.

An acces­si­ble and thought-provoking read, The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness edu­cates life­long learn­ers and pro­fes­sion­als in health­care, edu­ca­tion, busi­ness, etc., on emerg­ing trends and fore­casts of what the future will hold.

To order book via Amazon.com:

- Print book ($24.95): click Here
– Kin­dle ver­sion ($9.99): click Here

We had an infor­ma­tive webi­nar this Tues­day, dis­cussing the State of the Brain Fit­ness Soft­ware mar­ket today, based on the find­ings in our Mar­ket Report. In case you missed it, you can find below a link to check out and down­load the Pow­er­Point slides I pre­sented (just the visu­als, with­out audio) to cover these areas:

1– The Four Pil­lars for Brain Health

2– Cog­ni­tive Abil­i­ties can Be Ass­esed and Trained

3– An emerg­ing field, and poised to grow

4– A con­fus­ing player land­scape. Think “What For”, not “Best”.

Link: State of the Brain Fit­ness Soft­ware Mar­ket 2008

Please remem­ber that we have 2 upcom­ing webi­nars, and you can still register!:

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Some of the blog car­ni­vals, and other post col­lec­tions, we have con­tributed to this week. Enjoy these col­lec­tions of posts on a vari­ety of top­ics, where we have added a cog­ni­tive neu­ro­science perspective.

Favorites:

• Blog­ging on the Brain (neuroscience)
• Mendel’s Gar­den (genetics)
• Med­i­cine 2.0
• COTC (busi­ness)
• Non-Profit Lead­er­ship
• Fam­ily Life

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