SharpBrains Council Monthly Insights: How will we assess, enhance and repair cognition across the lifespan?

By SharpBrains | November 18, 2010

When you think of how the PC has altered the fab­ric of soci­ety, per­mit­ting instant access to infor­ma­tion and automat­ing process­es beyond our wildest dreams, it is instruc­tive to con­sid­er that much of this progress was dri­ven by Moore’s law. Halv­ing the size of semi­con­duc­tor every 18 months catal­ysed an expo­nen­tial accel­er­a­tion in per­for­mance. Why…

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What impressed the Judging Panel re. Innovation Awards Winners and Finalists

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 27, 2010

Let me now share what the Judg­ing Pan­el and the Sharp­Brains team found most impres­sive from each Win­ner and Final­ist of the 2010 Brain Fit­ness Inno­va­tion Awards, accom­pa­nied by some addi­tion­al infor­ma­tion on each of these 10 note­wor­thy ini­tia­tives and case stud­ies. Grand Prize Win­ner USA Hock­ey, Inc., is the Nation­al Gov­ern­ing Body of the…

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Announcement: USA Hockey takes gold at Brain Fitness Innovation Awards, Allstate & Nationwide Mutual Insurance runners-up

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 24, 2010 |

Please join us in con­grat­u­lat­ing USA Hock­ey, All­state, and Nation­wide, for reach­ing the podi­um of the 2010 Brain Fit­ness Inno­va­tion Awards, unveiled today. The podi­um’s top posi­tion went to USA Hock­ey Nation­al Team Devel­op­ment Pro­gram (NTDP), a full-time devel­op­ment pro­gram aimed at prepar­ing stu­­dent-ath­letes for par­tic­i­pa­tion on the US Nation­al Under-18 and Under-17 Teams, for…

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Monday Announcement: Winners of the 2010 Brain Fitness Innovation Awards

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 19, 2010

Impor­tant reminder: mem­bers of the Judg­ing Pan­el will rec­og­nize the Final­ists and the 3 Win­ners in an Awards Cer­e­mo­ny Call on Mon­day, noon-1pm Pacif­ic Time. In order to par­tic­i­pate in the call: Mem­bers of the Press can reg­is­ter, free: Here (seri­ous blog­gers can apply too) Any­one else can reg­is­ter ($25): Here Out of the 40 orga­ni­za­tions that submitted…

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Quick update on 2010 Brain Fitness Innovation Awards

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 16, 2010

We have received 40 excel­lent entries to the inau­gur­al Brain Fit­ness Inno­va­tion Awards describ­ing pio­neer­ing ini­tia­tives to apply neu­ro­­plas­tic­i­­ty-based find­ings and tools to a vari­ety of purposes/ age groups through the lifes­pan: aca­d­e­m­ic per­for­mance, sports per­for­mance, pro­fes­sion­al per­for­mance, healthy aging, clin­i­cal and men­tal health pur­pos­es. Most came from orga­ni­za­tions based in North Amer­i­ca, but we…

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Last Days for Entries to 2010 Brain Fitness Innovation Awards

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 12, 2010

Please remem­ber we are accept­ing entries until end of this Thurs­day, April 15th. Win­ners will be announced on May 24th, 2010. How to Apply: Orga­ni­za­tions can use this Entry Form to sub­mit entries (opens a Word doc­u­ment). Descrip­tion: the new annu­al Brain Fit­ness Inno­va­tion Awards, designed to fos­ter inno­va­tion and best prac­tice shar­ing by cel­e­brat­ing outstanding…

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