September update: Revolutions in neurotechnology will soon influence every aspect of human life

Time for Sharp­Brains’ Sep­tem­ber e‑newsletter, wrap­ping up this month’s key brain-relat­ed news.

Our brain is at the core of every­thing we do, from the every-day deci­sions we make to the epic emo­tions we feel when we fall in love. And neurotechnologies–especially those that, being dig­i­tal, are emi­nently scal­able, and that, being non-inva­sive, pose few if any neg­a­tive side-effects–are poised to become ubiq­ui­tous, per­va­sive…Keep read­ing the Pre­lim­i­nary Agen­da of the 2015 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Novem­ber 17–19th), which fea­tures 32 con­firmed, stel­lar speak­ers so far!

Innovation news:

• Google gets seri­ous about brain & men­tal health inno­va­tion and hires NIMH Direc­tor Tom Insel
• Head­space rais­es $34 mil­lion to scale up med­i­ta­tion ser­vice and trans­form mind health
• New $3m Euro­pean-Israeli col­lab­o­ra­tion to build brain train­ing sys­tem and enhance foot­ball (soc­cer) play­ers’ game intelligence
• Cog­nic­i­ti and John­son & John­son Inno­va­tion part­ner to improve cog­ni­tive screen­ings for ear­ly iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of dementia
• Mobile cog­ni­tive ther­a­pies gain trac­tion as first-line men­tal health intervention

Research news:

• Report: Rev­o­lu­tions in neu­rotech­nol­o­gy will soon influ­ence every aspect of human life
• Report: 10 mil­lion peo­ple devel­op demen­tia every year
• Neona­tal MRI scans of preterm chil­dren can help pre­dict cog­ni­tive and aca­d­e­m­ic prob­lems, and guide ear­ly interventions
• Brain imag­ing not accu­rate or sen­si­tive enough (yet) to detect Alzheimer’s dis­ease in pri­ma­ry care settings
• Chal­lenge: How to spur mean­ing­ful, tar­get­ed & safe adop­tion of emerg­ing neurotechnologies

Food for thought:

• What’s in it for me: Ten crit­i­cal ques­tions to nav­i­gate media cov­er­age of lat­est sci­en­tif­ic findings
• Would War­ren Buf­fett be a high­ly viable Pres­i­den­tial candidate?
• Smart brains in action: 17 Sus­tain­able Devel­o­ment Goals (SDGs) To Build A Bet­ter World

 

Final­ly, a reminder to Save Your Spot for 2015 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit (Novem­ber 17–19th) —  10% dis­count code: sharp2015

Have a great month of October!

The Sharp­Brains Team