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25 Key Resources to Improve Brain Health and Mental Health

Here we have com­piled 25 impor­tant resources dis­cussed dur­ing our annu­al Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mits–where hun­dreds of pro­fes­sion­als from 25+ coun­tries meet (vir­tu­al­ly) to dis­cuss the lat­est and to rein­vent brain health and men­tal health in the dig­i­tal age.

I. The Big Picture

  • The Dig­i­tal Future of Brain Health (World Eco­nom­ic Forum)
  • Mak­ing Men­tal Health a Glob­al Pri­or­i­ty (World Health Organization/ World Bank)
  • The 10 skills you need to thrive in the Fourth Indus­tri­al Rev­o­lu­tion (World Eco­nom­ic Forum)
  • Solv­ing the Brain Fit­ness Puz­zle Is the Key to Self-Empow­ered Aging (Gen­er­a­tions)

 

II. Scientific Research

  • Sum­ma­ry of the evi­dence on mod­i­fi­able risk fac­tors for cog­ni­tive decline and demen­tia: A pop­u­la­tion-based per­spec­tive (Alzheimer’s & Dementia)
  • Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of a Com­mon Neu­ro­bi­o­log­i­cal Sub­strate for Men­tal Ill­ness (JAMA Psychiatry)
  • A 2 year mul­tido­main inter­ven­tion of diet, exer­cise, cog­ni­tive train­ing, and vas­cu­lar risk mon­i­tor­ing ver­sus con­trol to pre­vent cog­ni­tive decline in at-risk elder­ly peo­ple (FINGER) (The Lancet)
  • Bay­crest to house the Cana­di­an Cen­tre for Aging and Brain Health Inno­va­tion (Bay­crest)
  • Healthy minds 0–100 years: Opti­mis­ing the use of Euro­pean brain imag­ing cohorts (Lifebrain) (Con­sor­tium fund­ed by Hori­zon 2020)
  • Can you grow your hip­pocam­pus? Yes. Here’s how, and why it mat­ters (Sharp­Brains)

 

III. Technology Trends

  • Trends in Neu­rotech­nol­ogy (Potomac Insti­tute for Pol­i­cy Studies)
  • Info­graph­ic & Report on Per­va­sive Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy: A Ground­break­ing Analy­sis of 10,000+ Patent Fil­ings Trans­form­ing Med­i­cine, Health, Enter­tain­ment and Busi­ness (Sharp­Brains)
  • My Vir­tu­al Dream: Col­lec­tive Neu­ro­feed­back in an Immer­sive Art Envi­ron­ment (PLOS One)
  • At the fron­tier of Big Data and Brain Health (PPT pre­sen­ta­tion by sev­er­al experts)
  • Towards new human rights in the age of neu­ro­science and neu­rotech­nol­o­gy (Life Sci­ences, Soci­ety and Policy)

 

IV. Market data, players and trends

  • Five rea­sons the future of brain enhance­ment is dig­i­tal, per­va­sive and (hope­ful­ly) bright (World Eco­nom­ic Forum)
  • Info­graph­ic & Report on Dig­i­tal Plat­forms for Brain/ Cog­ni­tive Assess­ment, Mon­i­tor­ing and Enhance­ment (Sharp­Brains)
  • Tak­ing cognitive/ emo­tion­al assess­ments and ther­a­pies to scale (PPT pre­sen­ta­tion by sev­er­al experts)
  • 10 neu­rotech­nolo­gies about to trans­form brain enhance­ment and brain health (Sharp­Brains)

  • Best prac­tices to fund, devel­op and com­mer­cial­ize evi­dence-based inno­va­tion (PPT pre­sen­ta­tion by sev­er­al experts)

 

V. Great Brain Books

  • The Brain That Changes Itself: Sto­ries of Per­son­al Tri­umph from the Fron­tiers of Brain Sci­ence, by Nor­man Doidge
  • The New Exec­u­tive Brain: Frontal Lobes in a Com­plex World, by Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg
  • The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness: How to Opti­mize Brain Health and Per­for­mance at Any Age, by Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg and Dr. Pas­cale Michelon
  • The Woman Who Changed Her Brain: How I Left My Learn­ing Dis­abil­i­ty Behind and Oth­er Sto­ries of Cog­ni­tive Trans­for­ma­tion, by Bar­bara Arrowsmith-Young
  • Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Sci­ence Reveals Our Extra­or­di­nary Poten­tial to Trans­form Our­selves, by Sharon Begley

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