February Update: Retooling Brain Health for the 21st Century

By SharpBrains | February 28, 2011

Wel­come to the Feb­ru­ary edi­tion of Sharp­Brains month­ly eNewslet­ter: First Report of the Coun­cil on the Age­ing Soci­ety: Glob­al Pol­i­cy jour­nal pub­lish­es the full Pol­i­cy Prin­ci­ples and call to action out­lined by the Glob­al Agen­da Coun­cil on the Age­ing Soci­ety, an ini­tia­tive run by the World Eco­nomic Forum which our CEO Alvaro Fer­nan­dez was hon­ored to…

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Council on the Ageing Society, at the Summit of the Global Agenda

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 18, 2009

Head­ing to Dubai today (a 15-hour direct flight!), com­ing back to San Fran­cis­co next Mon­day. Last year I wrote about this remark­able new ini­tia­tive by the World Eco­nom­ic Forum here (pro­pos­al) and here (reflec­tions, emerg­ing dis­cus­sion). This year’s update: Overview: Net­work of Glob­al Agen­da Coun­cils List of Coun­cils: Here List of Mem­bers: Here Mem­bers of…

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Preparing Society for the Cognitive Age (Frontiers in Neuroscience article)

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 7, 2009 |

(Edi­tor’s note: this arti­cle belongs to the excel­lent May 2009 spe­cial issue on Aug­ment­ing Cog­ni­tion at sci­en­tif­ic jour­nal Fron­tiers in Neu­ro­science. The arti­cle, an indus­try overview, is repro­duced here with autho­riza­tion by the Fron­tiers Research Foun­da­tion) Prepar­ing Soci­ety for the Cog­ni­tive Age By Alvaro Fer­nan­dez Ground­break­ing cog­ni­tive neu­ro­science research has occurred over the last 20 years — without…

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Ever heard of the Longevity Dividend? Perhaps Gray is the New Gold

By Kronos Longevity Research Institute | May 27, 2009

The Longevi­ty Div­i­dend is a the­o­ry that says we hope to inter­vene sci­en­tif­i­cal­ly to slow the aging process, which will also delay the onset of age-relat­ed dis­eases. Delay­ing aging just sev­en years would slash rates of con­di­tions like can­cer, dia­betes, Alzheimer’s dis­ease and heart dis­ease in half. That’s the longevi­ty part. The div­i­dend comes from the…

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Making Healthy Choices: Primare Care and Prevention

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 17, 2009

Hiroshi Komiya­ma, Pres­i­dent of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Tokyo and Chair­per­son of the Glob­al Agen­da Coun­cil on the Chal­lenges of Geron­tol­ogy I am a mem­ber of, just pro­vid­ed coun­cil mem­bers with a brief update of his par­tic­i­pa­tion in the recent World Eco­nom­ic Forum. Part of the pro­ceed­ings are pub­lic — you may enjoy read­ing this pan­el write-up…

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Brain fitness & training heads towards its tipping point

By Dr. Gerard Finnemore | January 19, 2009 |

How do you know when some­thing is fast mov­ing towards a Glad­wellian tip­ping point? When health insur­ance com­pa­nies and pub­lic pol­i­cy mak­ers launch sig­nif­i­cant ini­tia­tives. For exam­ple, the gov­ern­ment of Ontario recent­ly announced a $10 mil­lion invest­ment with Bay­crest Research Cen­tre who will part­ner with MaRS Ven­ture Group to devel­op and com­mer­cialise brain fit­ness technologies.…

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