Witnessing an explosion of consumer-facing neurotechnologies to (potentially) harness lifelong neuroplasticity

By Apoorv Mathur | January 30, 2017

— Last week I shared some key sci­en­tif­ic, tech­no­log­i­cal and invest­ment trends rev­o­lu­tion­iz­ing Brain Health, based on my par­tic­i­pa­tion at the 2016 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit, and promised a sec­ond arti­cle more focused on the tech­nol­o­gy side of things. Here it is :-) Just a few weeks after the Sharp­Brains Sum­mit I also attend­ed CES 2017. While I enjoyed the myr­i­ad emerging…

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Forget thinking vs. feeling dichotomy. Think/ feel holistic brain functioning

By SharpBrains | January 20, 2017

Men­tal Math and the Fine-Tun­ing of Emo­tions (The Dana Foun­da­tion) “You often hear the word “cal­cu­lat­ing” used to describe some­one who always seems to act delib­er­ate­ly, guid­ed by rea­son rather than emo­tion. The idea behind this char­ac­ter­i­za­tion is that human nature strad­dles a deep divide between think­ing and feel­ing, but cur­rent research sug­gests oth­er­wise. Brain-imag­ing studies,…

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Brain Health in the Digital Age

By SharpBrains | November 7, 2016

Brain Health in the Dig­i­tal Age from Sharp­Brains Pre­sen­ta­tion deliv­ered by Alvaro Fer­nan­dez at UBC Rob­son Square in Van­cou­ver, on Novem­ber 4th, host­ed by the Wat­son Cen­tre for Brain Health. Descrip­tion: Brain health is a rapid­ly evolv­ing field, with dig­i­tal plat­forms start­ing to rev­o­lu­tion­ize all aspects of pre­ven­tion, diag­no­sis and treat­ment. Dis­cov­er how the growing…

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Update: To succeed at school, children with ADHD need both medication and non-medication treatments

By SharpBrains | March 31, 2015

. Time for Sharp­Brains’ March e‑newsletter, wrap­ping up this mon­th’s key neu­ro­science stud­ies, neu­rotech­nol­ogy news and brain fit­ness insights. Upcom­ing events May 2015 Online Course: How to Nav­i­gate Con­ven­tion­al and Com­ple­men­tary ADHD Treat­ments for Healthy Brain Devel­op­ment Neu­roGam­ing + ESCoNS Sum­mit 2015 (May 5–7; San Fran­cis­co) New research To improve aca­d­e­m­ic out­comes, chil­dren with ADHD need both medication…

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