Daniel Ferguson: Big Data opens a world of opportunity in health, psychology, neuroscience

By SharpBrains | October 29, 2013
Daniel Ferguson

Please tell us about your inter­est in applied brain sci­ence. What areas are you most inter­est­ed in?  I am most­ly intrigued by brain train­ing and behav­ioral response using neuro/biofeedback and augmented/virtual real­i­ty. What is one impor­tant thing you are work­ing on now, and where can peo­ple learn more about it?  We are work­ing on ways to leverage…

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Where Brain Health Meets Digital Health and Big Data

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 16, 2013

2013 is an excit­ing time to have a brain. Over the past two decades, our under­stand­ing of the human brain has grown expo­nen­tial­ly. Fueled by this new infor­ma­tion, the num­ber and vari­ety of brain appli­ca­tions avail­able com­mer­cial­ly is explod­ing, poten­tial­ly trans­form­ing the way we care for our brains across our entire lifes­pan. Hav­ing a brain…

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Enjoy the Latest Insights on Neuroplasticity and Brain Health in Celebration of Brain Awareness Week 2013

By SharpBrains | March 5, 2013

  How will you be cel­e­brat­ing Brain Aware­ness Week next week (March 11th-17th , 2013)? Here’s a sug­ges­tion: you can start watch­ing, at a spe­cial 95% pric­ing dis­count, more than 25 hours of exclu­sive pre­sen­ta­tions from over 40 lead­ing minds as they dis­cuss the lat­est on applied neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty and brain health.  These pre­sen­ta­tions, which took place dur­ing the…

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Does Brain Fitness Require Medicalization? Insights @ 2012 SharpBrains Virtual Summit

By Dr. Philip Toman | August 30, 2012

In June of this year, Sharp­Brains host­ed its third annu­al online “vir­tu­al sum­mit” on our evolv­ing under­stand­ing of how the human brain works, and how it can be made to work bet­ter. As read­ers of this blog know, Sharp­Brains is a US-based mar­ket research firm and think tank ded­i­cat­ed to study­ing the sci­en­tif­ic, social, and…

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