Maximizing the mental peak performance of astronauts, leaders…and everybody else

By SharpBrains | November 29, 2014

Max­i­miz­ing the peak per­for­mance of astro­nauts, leaders…and every­one else from Sharp­Brains Enjoy this great ses­sion held at the 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit, fea­tur­ing: Dr. Susan Jew­ell, Pres­i­dent of the Inter­na­tional Space Med­i­cine Con­sor­tium Dr. Robert Bilder, Chief of Med­ical Psy­­chol­o­­gy-Neu­rop­sy­­chol­o­­gy at UCLA Semel Insti­tute for Neu­ro­science Dr. Bill Reich­man, Pres­i­dent of Bay­crest Chair: Rajiv Pant, Chief…

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Michael Meagher (Cogniciti): Let’s transform brain health from “suffer-in-silence” to “let-me-take-control”

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 24, 2014

What is your cur­rent job title and orga­ni­za­tion, and what excites you the most about work­ing there? As the Pres­i­dent of Cog­nic­i­ti, a spin-off from Bay­crest reseach cen­ter and hos­pi­tal, I am excit­ed to help trans­form brain health from a reac­tive, “suf­fer-in-silence” space to a proac­tive, “let-me-take-con­trol-of-my-health” space.

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Sneak peak into the Preliminary Agenda @ 2014 SharpBrains Virtual Summit

By SharpBrains | August 14, 2014

Heads-up: If you want to join 20+ con­firmed world-class speak­ers and 100+ pro­fes­sion­als at the fore­front of brain health and applied neu­ro­science, please Reg­is­ter now and help us final­ize the fas­ci­nat­ing Sum­mit Agen­da: Tues­day, Octo­ber 28, 2014 8:15–9:45am. The State of the Brain Fit­ness Move­ment: demo­graphic, sci­en­tific, and mar­ket trends, explained 10:00–11:30am. Inno­v­a­tive part­ner­ships to improve lifelong…

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Shaping the Brain Fitness Movement: Preliminary Summit Agenda unveiled

By SharpBrains | July 25, 2014

We are pleased to announce the Pre­lim­i­nary Agen­da for the 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Octo­ber 28–30th, 2014), fea­tur­ing these world-class sci­en­tists, inno­va­tors and prac­ti­tion­ers (and more com­ing soon!). Please con­sid­er join­ing us: Dr. Adam Gaz­za­ley, Direc­tor of the Neu­ro­science Imag­ing Cen­ter at the Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia, San Fran­cis­co Aki Niko­laidis, NSF Fel­low at the Uni­ver­sity of…

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New online cognitive self-assessment by Cogniciti (Baycrest): a thermometer for the mind?

By SharpBrains | May 27, 2014

Bay­crest mem­o­ry experts launch ‘ther­mome­ter’ for the mind (Press release): “Accord­ing to the test’s cre­ators, the major­i­ty of peo­ple will score in the nor­mal, healthy range for their age – which will help reas­sure the “wor­ried well”. For the small per­cent­age (approx­i­mate­ly 2 — 3%) that scores below aver­age for 

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