Posts Tagged ‘Yaakov-Stern’
Update: Harness Neuroplasticity with Enthusiasm, Exercise & Personalized Medicine
Time for SharpBrains’ February 2012 eNewsletter, featuring in this occasion multiple and complementary perspectives on how to harness neuroplasticity: with enthusiasm, BOTH physical AND cognitive exercise, and (once tools become better standardized and widely available) brain-based personalized medicine. Featured Perspectives: To Harness Neuroplasticity, Start with Enthusiasm, by Dr. Helena Popovic Q&A with Dr. Yaakov Stern on Brain Reserve,…
Read MoreStudy: Cognitive Markers or Biomarkers to manage Cognitive Health across the Lifespan?
Predicting Alzheimer’s Disease More Accurate Through Cognitive Changes Than Biomarkers (Medical News): “Measuring people’s changes in cognitive abilities is a better predictor of Alzheimer’s disease than changes in biomarkers, researchers from the Benito Menni Complex Assistencial en Salut Mental, Barcelona, Spain, reported in Archives of General Psychiatry, a JAMA journal.” “The investigators used a range of…
Read MoreFull Recordings Available Now: 2011 SharpBrains Summit
We are pleased to announce that full recordings for all presentations delivered during the 2011 SharpBrains Summit: Retooling Brain Health for the 21st Century (March 30 — April 1, 2011) are now available both to Summit Participants and to non-Participants. You can Learn More Here and Access 40+ Talks and 20+ hours of up-to-date information and analysis…
Read MoreIntel Corporation and Lumos Labs Become Gold Sponsors of 2011 SharpBrains Summit
We are pleased to make eleven important announcements about the upcoming 2011 SharpBrains Virtual Summit…eleven additional reasons to consider registering and joining our event and community next week. Intel Corporation, the “Sponsors of Tomorrow™”, and Lumos Labs have become Summit Gold Sponsors. SharpBrains will issue a Certificate of Attendance to participants (20 hours of continuing education). Jamie…
Read MorePooling data to accelerate Alzheimer’s research
Very interesting article in the New York Times on the reasons behind growing research of how to detect Alzheimer’s Disease: Rare Sharing of Data Leads to Progress on Alzheimer’s (New York Times) (Situation before) Scientists were looking for biomarkers, but they were not getting very far. “The problem in the field was that you had many different…
Read MoreInvitation to SharpBrains Summit — Technology for Cognitive Health and Performance
We are excited to invite you to the first virtual, global SharpBrains Summit (January 18–20th, 2010). The SharpBrains Summit will feature a dream team of over 25 speakers who are leaders in industry and research from 7 countries, to discuss emerging research, tools and best practices for cognitive health and performance. This inaugural event will…
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