Update: From smart homes to smart people — where digital health meets brain fitness

Who said, “So for me the most excit­ing take­away from this year’s CES (Con­sumer Elec­tron­ics Show)  isn’t the smart car or the smart home, it’s the smart per­son…” You can find the answer, and many insights on brain health inno­va­tion, by read­ing Sharp­Brains’ Jan­u­ary 2013 eNewslet­ter. Enjoy!

• Dig­i­tal health meets con­sumer elec­tron­ics and brain train­ing, by Dr. Evian Gor­don and Dr. Gre­go­ry Bayer
• Retool­ing Brain Care With Low-Cost, Data-Dri­ven Tech­nolo­gies, by Alvaro Fernandez
• A con­ver­sa­tion on ‘The Opti­mism Bias’ with neu­ro­sci­en­tist Tali Sharot, by David Coleiro
• Why sci­en­tif­ic lit­er­a­cy and learn­ing enhance brain func­tion and neur­al health, by Hemal Pathak, PhD
• Best brain health fit­ness tip? “Nev­er let sta­tus quo be an option”, with Dr. San­dra Chapman
• 10 pre­dic­tions on how dig­i­tal plat­forms will trans­form brain health in 2013, by Alvaro Fernandez
• Why, to improve mem­o­ry, we need to think of the brain as a sys­tem, with Alvaro Fernandez
• Quick poll: 71% would take an “annu­al men­tal check-up”

Note: We’ll host a 90- minute webi­nar on Wednes­day, Feb­ru­ary 6th, to dis­cuss the main analy­sis and fore­casts from Sharp­Brains’ new mar­ket report “The Dig­i­tal Brain Health Mar­ket 2012–2020: Web-based, mobile and bio­met­rics-based tech­nol­ogy to assess, mon­i­tor and enhance cog­ni­tion and brain func­tion­ing,” and to con­nect them with main take aways from CES 2013 and the just fin­ished World Eco­nom­ic Forum.

–> To learn how to access the webi­nar and the report,  click HERE