Towards a new culture of Brain Health and Brain Fitness

By SharpBrains | October 25, 2018

?Pan­el agrees: Brain health improved by eat­ing healthy diet, get­ting reg­u­lar exer­cise + rest­ful sleep, reduc­ing stress, being social­ly con­nect­ed. Sounds sim­ple but we don’t do it well in mod­ern US cul­ture. Let’s address bar­ri­ers AND find ther­a­pies to treat brain dis­eases. #MIFHS pic.twitter.com/aj4uh5wLm5 — Kim McCleary (@KimTweetsDC) Octo­ber 23, 2018 Some addi­tion­al Con­fer­ence Bites from the…

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Jan Samzelius, CEO of Brainnovations Winner NeuraMetrix, encourages pioneers to focus on “simple, elegant solutions to big problems”

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 9, 2018

What sur­prised you the most from the Judges’ ques­tions and feed­back dur­ing the Brain­no­va­tions Pitch Con­test last month? Even with only a brief pre­sen­ta­tion the judges imme­di­ate­ly got the poten­tial impact of our tech­nol­o­gy to mea­sure and mon­i­tor brain health and began to think about oth­er appli­ca­tions for us – sev­er­al we had not thought about. That…

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Final days to submit scalable & non-pharmacological Brain Health proposals to MIT Solve’s Brain Health Challenge

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 28, 2017

Insuf­fi­cient brain health­care is one of the most per­va­sive and mul­ti-faceted prob­lems our world faces today. From the young to the old, the rich to the poor, those liv­ing in dense cities to iso­lat­ed farm­lands, any­one can be affect­ed by brain health prob­lems. Yet, cur­rent solu­tions to this prob­lem are lim­it­ed. While some inno­va­tions have made…

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Applying to MIT Solve? Here are 4 Ways, and 20 Resources, to Upgrade Brain Health in the Digital Age

By SharpBrains | June 29, 2017

Insuf­fi­cient brain health­care is one of the most per­va­sive and mul­ti-faceted prob­lems our world faces today. From the young to the old, the rich to the poor, those liv­ing in dense cities to iso­lat­ed farm­lands, any­one can be affect­ed by brain health prob­lems. Yet, cur­rent solu­tions to this prob­lem are lim­it­ed. While some inno­va­tions have made…

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Next: Targeted neurotechnology to augment–perhaps even take over–neuropharmacology

By SharpBrains | February 3, 2016

Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy offers new solu­tions to treat­ing brain dis­eases (Dell Tech Cul­ture): “A new wave of med­ical tech­nolo­gies is chang­ing the way we approach study­ing the brain and treat­ing patients suf­fer­ing from neu­ro­log­i­cal dis­eases and men­tal ill­ness. For peo­ple suf­fer­ing from Parkinson’s, epilep­sy, OCD and severe depres­sion, these tech­no­log­i­cal advance­ments are 

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