Agenda:
(Note: all times are US Pacific Time.)
Monday, January 18th, 2010 |
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 |
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8–8.15am: My Continued Love Affair with the Brain. Marian Diamond, Professor of Neuroscience and Anatomy, UC-Berkeley
8.15–9.15am: Cognition & Neuroplasticity: The New Health & Wellness Frontier
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8–8.15am: Innovation, People and Technology. Chuck House, Executive Director, Stanford Media X8.15–9.15am: Neurocognition & Medicine: Implications for Research, Diagnosis, Treatment In a growing number of clinical conditions the effective identification, remediation and rehabilitation of associated neurocognitive deficits is increasingly seen as a critical dimension of preventive and clinical care. This panel will discuss emerging needs, tools, opportunities and challenges.
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9.30–11am: Tools for Safer Driving: The Opportunity with Teenagers and Adults Safer driving can become the first mainstream application of cognitive training, given growing awareness of distracted driving, valuable cognitive research, product availability and channel interest. Driving schools in Europe and Canada, insurers and associations in the USA, are already leading the way.
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9.30–11am: How Can Neuroscience Inform and Refine Mental Health Care Neurosychiatry and related clinical fields focus on the identification and treatment of mental dysfunction. Growing neuroscientific knowledge and methods suggest an alternative framework: measuring and helping maintain the brain functionality required to thrive in modern society. How can cognitive and behavioral neuroscience inform and refine mental health care?
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Noon‑1.30pm: Baby Boomers and Beyond: Maintaining Cognitive Vitality Aging baby boomers and a growing aspiration to “brain fitness” are reality today, together with a media controversy on whether “brain games” and “brain fitness software” work or are a waste of time and money. This panel will discuss what “work” means and doesn’t mean, and offer light into what consumers and institutions are buying ‑and why.
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Noon‑1.30pm: Integrating Cognition with Home Health and Medical Home Models Emerging healthcare delivery models, such as home health and medical homes, bring new urgency to the need for personalized and well-integrated care processes that actively monitor and help address cognitive and emotional problems. Pioneers in computerized cognitive behavioral therapy, patient-centered care, and home health care will discuss opportunities and challenges.
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1.45–3.15pm: Next Generation Cognitive & Emotional Health Assessments Scalable, automated applications can assess and monitor a variety of cognitive and emotional functions, helping refine medical diagnoses and direct treatments in a way that the Mini-Mental and similar traditional assessments can’t. This panel will discuss online assessments deployed by insurers, cognitive monitoring via game playing, and experimental virtual-reality approaches.
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1.45–3.15pm: What’s Next: Entrepreneurial And Funding Perspectives Demography meets research meets technology: a recipe for innovation and entrepreneurship crossing traditional sector lines (neurotech, health IT, consumer internet, software). What are entrepreneurs trying, and learning? What are venture groups funding, and why?
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3.30–4pm: The Future of Cognitive Health Tech — Intel’s Perspective Two researchers at Intel Digital Health will outline why and how Intel Corporation is supporting R&D initiatives such as the Technology Research for Independent Living (TRIL) Centre and ORCATECH to help develop home-based automated applications to assess, monitor and help maintain cognition among older adults. They will also share key lessons learned so far, and outline challenges and potential guidelines for the field at large based on ethnographic research and first-hand product development.
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3.30–4pm: Future Standards and Channels for Neuroplasticity-based Interventions Traditionally, medicine focuses on invasive interventions (drugs, devices), while other sectors deal with non-invasive ones (exercise, learning, meditation, therapy and training). These boundaries are increasingly artificial, suggesting the need for new standards, assessments and channels to evolve and support meaningful innovation in years to come.
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Expo Day (Wednesday, January 20th)
9am. Baycrest/ Cogniciti introduced the new Memory@Work workshop, designed to teach what memory is, how lifestyle factors such as distraction and stress can affect memory, and how to enhance memory performance at work with the use of enabling strategies.
10am. CogniFit demoed CogniFit Personal Coach and CogniFit Senior Driver, two online programs designed to assess and main cognitive functions for healthy living and safe driving, respectively.
11am. Posit Science demoed InSight, a software-based cognitive training package designed to sharpen brain’s visual system. This is the program being tested by Allstate for safer driving.
Noon. Happy Neuron introduced HAPPYneuron PRO, a new platform for professionals for the effective delivery and management of cognitive remediation and rehabilitation programs in a patient centric manner.
1pm. SharpBrains helped navigate this growing field by discussing The State of the Brain Fitness Software 2009 report and The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness consumer guide, and summarizing key Summit take-aways.
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Speaker Bios:
Monday, January 18th, 2010 |
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 |
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Richard Levinson, President, Attention Control Systems. In the early 1990s, as a robotics researcher at NASA-Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, Mr. Levinson began studying the neuropsychology of human planning in order to increase autonomy for NASA robots. In 1995, he proposed a computer model of human frontal lobe function in an article published in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. That computer model of executive functions led to the development of PEAT, a powerful cuing and scheduling treatment currently available to people with a wide range of cognitive and attention disorders. Levinson has publications related to PEAT in both computer science and neuropsychology journals, and has pioneered an interdisciplinary approach to cognitive rehabilitation that has drawn widespread attention.
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