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How to mea­sure and improve brain-based out­comes that mat­ter in health care

December 22, 2015 by SharpBrains

How to mea­sure and improve brain-based out­comes that mat­ter in health care from Sharp­Brains

Pio­neers advanc­ing health research, pre­ven­tion and treat­ment helped us under­stand emerg­ing best prac­tices where [Read more…] about How to mea­sure and improve brain-based out­comes that mat­ter in health care

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Advanced Brain Mon­i­tor­ing, Baycrest, brain, Brain Monitoring, brain-care, health, healthcare, Psychology, Veteran-Affairs

London, July 17th: Upgrading Education and Health in light of Neuroscience — The Frontier of Gaming?

June 26, 2014 by SharpBrains

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We are delight­ed to invite Sharp­Brains friends to dis­cov­er the future of applied neu­ro­science and gam­ing at a cock­tail evening  in Lon­don on Thurs­day July 17th, host­ed by Brain­bow in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Strate­gic North and Sharp­Brains. [Read more…] about Lon­don, July 17th: Upgrad­ing Edu­ca­tion and Health in light of Neu­ro­science — The Fron­tier of Gaming?

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: alvaro-fernandez, brain-care, Brain-Training, brain-training applications, Brainbow, Education & Lifelong Learning, Gaming, health, London, neuroscience, olivier oullier, Peak, videogames

Update: From smart homes to smart people — where digital health meets brain fitness

January 31, 2013 by SharpBrains

Who said, “So for me the most excit­ing take­away from this year’s CES (Con­sumer Elec­tron­ics Show)  isn’t the smart car or the smart home, it’s the smart per­son…” You can find the answer, and many insights on brain health inno­va­tion, by read­ing Sharp­Brains’ Jan­u­ary 2013 eNewslet­ter. Enjoy!

  • Dig­i­tal health meets con­sumer elec­tron­ics and brain train­ing, by Dr. Evian Gor­don and Dr. Gre­go­ry Bayer
  • Retool­ing Brain Care With Low-Cost, Data-Dri­ven Tech­nolo­gies, by Alvaro Fernandez
  • A con­ver­sa­tion on ‘The Opti­mism Bias’ with neu­ro­sci­en­tist Tali Sharot, by David Coleiro
  • Why sci­en­tif­ic lit­er­a­cy and learn­ing enhance brain func­tion and neur­al health, by Hemal Pathak, PhD
  • Best brain health fit­ness tip? “Nev­er let sta­tus quo be an option”, with Dr. San­dra Chapman
  • 10 pre­dic­tions on how dig­i­tal plat­forms will trans­form brain health in 2013, by Alvaro Fernandez
  • Why, to improve mem­o­ry, we need to think of the brain as a sys­tem, with Alvaro Fernandez
  • Quick poll: 71% would take an “annu­al men­tal check-up”

Note: We’ll host a 90- minute webi­nar on Wednes­day, Feb­ru­ary 6th, to dis­cuss the main analy­sis and fore­casts from Sharp­Brains’ new mar­ket report “The Dig­i­tal Brain Health Mar­ket 2012–2020: Web-based, mobile and bio­met­rics-based tech­nol­ogy to assess, mon­i­tor and enhance cog­ni­tion and brain func­tion­ing,” and to con­nect them with main take aways from CES 2013 and the just fin­ished World Eco­nom­ic Forum.

–> To learn how to access the webi­nar and the report,  click HERE

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: brain-care, brain-functioning, Brain-health, Brain-Training, cog­ni­tion, consumer electronics, digital health, improve-memory, mental-check-up, neural-health

TEDWeekends: Retooling Brain Care With Low-Cost, Data-Driven Technologies

January 25, 2013 by Alvaro Fernandez

I was asked to con­tribute to this week­end’s TED­Week­end on how “Sim­ple Solu­tions Can Heal the Mass­es,” by com­ment­ing on a great TEDTalk by Max Lit­tle, “A Test For Parkin­son’s With A Phone Call.”

Enjoy, share, and please add your two cents to my arti­cle: Retool­ing Brain Care With Low-Cost, Data-Dri­ven Tech­nolo­gies (The Huff­in­g­ton Post)

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: brain, brain-care, Parkinsons, phone, TEDWeekends

Brain Injury Care: Treatment and Reimbursement Challenges

January 18, 2012 by SharpBrains

Gif­fords May Get Bet­ter Brain-Injury Care Than Most of Her Con­stituents (ProP­ub­li­ca):

“Despite the need for more research, Gif­fords’ sto­ry shows the poten­tial of the treat­ments now avail­able. But accord­ing to Susan Con­nors, the pres­i­dent of the Brain Injury Asso­ci­a­tion of Amer­i­ca, what treat­ment you receive depends heav­i­ly on your state, insur­ance plan (or lack of one), hos­pi­tal and the peo­ple advo­cat­ing for you.” [Read more…] about Brain Injury Care: Treat­ment and Reim­burse­ment Challenges

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: BIAA, Brain Injury Association, brain injury care, brain-care, brain-injury, caregivers, Giffords, mTBI, Susan Connors, TBI, Traumatic-Brain-Injury

Update: Innovation to Upgrade Brain Care

July 28, 2010 by SharpBrains

Here you have the July107px-gray1197thumbnail edi­tion of our month­ly eNewslet ter cov­er­ing cog­ni­tive health and brain fit­ness top­ics. Please remem ber that you can sub­scribe to receive this free Brain Fit­ness eNewslet­ter by email, using the box in the right column.

Tech­nol­o­gy to upgrade brain care: In this exten­sive inter­view, Dr. John Docher­ty helps con­nect the dots on why new frame­works and tools are a must to put recent brain research to good use. A must read for all pro­fes­sion­als in the field.

Research

Find­ings from NIH Expert Pan­el: The Amer­i­can Soci­ety on Aging asked Alvaro Fer­nan­dez to com­ment on the find­ings from a major cog­ni­tive health research review by the Nation­al Insti­tutes of Health. Lifestyle still mat­ters, and pro­tec­tive fac­tors against cog­ni­tive decline are led by cog­ni­tive train­ing, phys­i­cal activ­i­ty and cog­ni­tive engagement.

Sci­en­tif­ic cri­tique of BBC brain train­ing exper­i­ment: Dr. Eliz­a­beth Zelin­s­ki shares her con­cerns about the April 2010 BBC study, which includ­ed sub­stan­tial and unex­plained dropout rates, and ques­tion­able out­come mea­sure­ment and interpretation.

The val­ue of being bilin­gual and build­ing a Cog­ni­tive Reserve to pre­serve learn­ing and mem­o­ry even in the face of brain dam­age are explored in recent studies.

San Fran­cis­co Bay Area study seeks par­tic­i­pants: The Gaz­za­ley Lab at UCSF is look­ing for par­tic­i­pants aged 20–59 to explore the impact of dis­trac­tion and mul­ti­task­ing on per­for­mance across the lifespan.


Inno­va­tion

What impressed Inno­va­tion Awards Judg­ing Pan­el: Get some insight into what most impressed the Judg­ing Pan­el about each Win­ner and Final­ist of the 2010 Brain Fit­ness Inno­va­tion Awards.

New — Sharp­Brains’ 2010 Mar­ket Report:  Sharp­Brains’ flag­ship, 207-page, third annu­al mar­ket report finds con­tin­ued growth for dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies to assess, enhance and treat cognition.

To man­age brain fit­ness through life, we need to put puz­zle pieces togeth­er: inno­v­a­tive tools to help us bet­ter mon­i­tor our cog­ni­tive health and take informed action are bad­ly needed.…and already emerging.

The inter­net will fry your brain. Sure: In his lat­est book, Nicholas Carr does a great job high­light­ing the impli­ca­tions of life­long neuro­plasticity, but picks the wrong enemy.

“Seri­ous Games”:  Can video games inspire peo­ple to per­form acts of altru­ism? Kyle Smith reports.

Teasers

Yahoo Opti­cal Illu­sions and teasers: Yahoo! has cre­at­ed an expand­ed sec­tion of illu­sions and teasers, and we were glad to con­tribute to it. Enjoy…and have a great summer!

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Filed Under: SharpBrains Monthly eNewsletter Tagged With: Alzheimer's disease prevention, BBC, bilingual, brain, brain-care, Brain-Fitness, Brain-health, Brain-Training, cognitive, cognitive engagement, cognitive-decline, cognitive-health, cognitive-reserve, Cognitive-Training, innovation, John Docherty, measure brain fitness, medical records, medical research, memory impairment, mental demands, mental toolkit, NIH, Physical-activity, Serious-Games, technology, video-games

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