Invest in Brain Health to Drive Innovation and Prosperity

By Veronika Litinski | July 30, 2012

In an increas­ing­ly knowl­­edge-based and inno­­va­­tion-dri­ven econ­o­my, human brains—not finan­cial capital—are becom­ing the pri­ma­ry dri­vers of busi­ness suc­cess. Engaged, cre­ative cit­i­zens and work­ers mean the dif­fer­ence between suc­cess and fail­ure at the orga­ni­za­tion­al and soci­etal lev­els. Look­ing at the prob­lem from the per­spec­tive of brain health, there are 

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Save the Date: 2012 SharpBrains Summit — Optimizing Health Through Neuroplasticity & Digital Innovation

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 8, 2012 |

Please Save these Dates if you are inter­est­ed in explor­ing and dis­cussing the lat­est on Opti­miz­ing Health Through Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty and Dig­i­tal Inno­va­tion; the theme for our third annu­al vir­tu­al Sharp­Brains Sum­mit (“vir­tu­al” means every­thing takes place online; no one has to trav­el): Pre-Sum­mit work­shops: May 31st-June 1st, 2012 Sum­mit: June 7–8th, 2012 Expo Week: June 12–14th, 2012…

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Study: Music Training Can Enhance Verbal Intelligence and Executive Function

By SharpBrains | October 5, 2011 |

Very inter­est­ing new study pub­lished in Psy­cho­log­i­cal Sci­ence: Short-Term Music Train­ing Enhances Ver­bal Intel­li­gence and Exec­u­tive Func­tion. Abstract: Researchers have designed train­ing meth­ods that can be used to improve men­tal health and to test the effi­ca­cy of edu­ca­tion pro­grams. How­ev­er, few stud­ies have demon­strat­ed broad trans­fer from such train­ing to per­for­mance on untrained cog­ni­tive activities.…

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7 Key Lessons from the 2011 SharpBrains Summit: Retooling Brain Health for the 21st Century

By Luc P. Beaudoin | April 21, 2011

Sharp­Brains served a high­ly thought-pro­­vok­ing and infor­ma­tive 2011 Vir­tu­al Sum­mit on Retool­ing Brain Health for the 21st Cen­tu­ry over 3 days, March 30th — April 1st. Here is a brief dis­til­la­tion of the large num­ber (40+) of pre­sen­ta­tions. 1.The range and vari­ety of pre­sen­ta­tions left no room for doubt that the dig­i­tal brain health market…

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Intel Corporation and Lumos Labs Become Gold Sponsors of 2011 SharpBrains Summit

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 22, 2011

We are pleased to make eleven impor­tant announce­ments about the upcom­ing 2011 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit…eleven addi­tion­al rea­sons to con­sid­er reg­is­ter­ing and join­ing our event and com­mu­ni­ty next week. Intel Cor­po­ra­tion, the “Spon­sors of Tomor­row™”, and Lumos Labs have become Sum­mit Gold Spon­sors. Sharp­Brains will issue a Cer­tifi­cate of Atten­dance to par­tic­i­pants (20 hours of con­tin­u­ing edu­ca­tion). Jamie…

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Join 150+ Participants in 2011 Virtual Summit

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 24, 2011

The 2011 Sharp­Brains Sum­mit: Retool­ing Brain Health for the 21st Cen­tu­ry (March 30 — April 1st) is just 5 weeks away. You can Learn More and Reg­is­ter Today HERE. Don’t miss the oppor­tu­ni­ty to join an incred­i­ble line-up of 36+ con­firmed Speak­ers, 7 Sponsors/ Exhibitors, 13 Part­ners, and 150+ Par­tic­i­pants as of today, all available…

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