May 8th: How Neurotech Innovation Leads to New Healthcare Realities @ Horasis Global Meeting in Cascais, Portugal

Heads-up: the 2018 Hora­sis Glob­al Meet­ing will host a ses­sion on How Inno­va­tion Leads to New Health­care Real­i­ties, and our very own Alvaro Fer­nan­dez will dis­cuss the lat­est in neu­rotech­nol­o­gy, brain & men­tal health and also set the stage for the upcom­ing launch of the Por­tuguese edi­tionof The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness: How to…

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The more hours you sit per day, the smaller your medial temporal lobe (MTL) seems to become, brain scans show

Sit­ting is bad for your brain — not just your metab­o­lism or heart (UCLA release): “UCLA researchers recruit­ed 35 peo­ple ages 45 to 75 and asked about their phys­i­cal activ­i­ty lev­els and the aver­age num­ber of hours per day they spent sit­ting over the pre­vi­ous week. Each per­son had a high-res­o­lu­­tion MRI scan, which provides…

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Dr. Albert Kwon, CEO of Brainnovations Winner AUGMENTx, wants to harness Augmented Reality to significantly ease access to Neurological Rehabilitation Therapies

___ Albert, what sur­prised you the most from the Judges’ ques­tions and feed­back dur­ing the Brain­no­va­tions Pitch Con­test? It was a pleas­ant sur­prise to receive so many votes and such great feed­back, which solid­i­fied my con­vic­tion that there is a great need to cre­ate new ther­a­py options for stroke patients and oth­er neu­ro­log­i­cal injuries, especially…

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Top 10 moments from the 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit/ Slidedecks & Recordings are Available

_____ Whew. What a rich and diverse 3‑day con­ver­sa­tion on the future of brain health and brain enhance­ment among 50+ Speak­ers and 200+ par­tic­i­pants in 24 coun­tries. From the dozens of fas­ci­nat­ing insights and moments, here are some our favorites: (Note: slid­edecks are now freely avail­able; ses­sion record­ings require reg­is­tra­tion and login cre­den­tials) 1. That mas­ter­ful 40-minute…

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10 favorite moments from the 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit/ Recordings are Available

Whew. What a rich and cut­t­ing-edge 3‑day con­ver­sa­tion last week on the future of brain health and brain enhance­ment. We enjoyed dozens of fas­ci­nat­ing insights and moments — here’s a sam­ple of our favorites: 1. That mas­ter­ful 40-minute overview by Dr. Tom Insel on the past, present and future of men­tal health 2. Dis­cussing with Akil­i’s…

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Next week in LA, and online: Brain Longevity Therapy Training by The Alzheimer’s Research & Prevention Foundation

_______ Heads-up: The Alzheimer’s Research & Pre­ven­tion Foun­da­tion (ARPF), a long­stand­ing sup­port­er of Sharp­Brains events and activ­i­ties, will be con­duct­ing its first Brain Longevi­ty Ther­a­py Train­ing — com­bin­ing pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment with a cer­ti­fi­ca­tion process — next week in Los Ange­les, CA (also with a livestream option). And they are gen­er­ous­ly shar­ing dis­count codes (below) for inter­est­ed SharpBrains…

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