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Empowering communities with better brain health tools and literacy

December 22, 2016 by SharpBrains

Empow­er com­mu­ni­ties with bet­ter brain health tools and lit­er­a­cy from Sharp­Brains

What role should com­mu­ni­ty and care­givers play in brain health and men­tal health, and how can tech­nol­o­gy aid their efforts–for exam­ple in shar­ing rel­e­vant data with/ from doc­tors? How are we going to edu­cate and empow­er every­one with essen­tial knowl­edge and best practices?

  • Chair: Dr. Peter White­house, Pro­fes­sor of Neu­rol­o­gy at Case West­ern Reserve University
  • Dr. Eliz­a­beth Zelin­s­ki, Direc­tor of the Cen­ter for Dig­i­tal Aging at the Davis School of Gerontology
  • Michael Meagher, Pres­i­dent of Cogniciti
  • Dr. Neal Cohen, clin­i­cal psy­chol­o­gist at The Synapse System

These pre­sen­ta­tions took place at the 2016 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: Rein­vent­ing Brain Health in the Dig­i­tal Age (Decem­ber 6–8th, 2016).

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: brain literacy, Brain-health, caregivers, Cogniciti, gerontology, literacy, Mental-Health, neurology, synapse, technology

Update: New tools, research and insights to reinvent Brain Health and Mental Health in the Digital Age

November 22, 2016 by SharpBrains


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Time for a new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains’ e‑newsletter, explor­ing a range of tech­nolo­gies, sci­en­tif­ic find­ings and insights for brain health and men­tal health to bet­ter respond to the oppor­tu­ni­ties and chal­lenges ahead.

Hap­py read­ing, and Hap­py Thanksgiving!

New tools:

  • Brain Health in the Dig­i­tal Age (opens 24-slide presentation)
  • Har­ness­ing brain scans to per­son­al­ize autism-relat­ed behav­ioral interventions
  • UNICEF launch­es inter­ac­tive dig­i­tal brain devel­op­ment tool for young children
  • Mobile, data-rich apps to mon­i­tor and pro­mote neu­rocog­ni­tive health

New research:

  • Mind­ful med­i­ta­tion works. Now, how to nav­i­gate the most pop­u­lar options?
  • For good and bad, TV ads pro­mote high­er pre­scrib­ing vol­ume of psy­chi­atric medications
  • Study debunks the “ear­li­er is always bet­ter” myth about brain devel­op­ment and cog­ni­tive training
  • hearing_brain“Could you repeat that?” Study links hear­ing loss to brain aging

New thinking:

  • Improv­ing brain fit­ness lit­er­a­cy in Japan
  • New “bion­ic hybrid neu­ro chip” to improve under­stand­ing of brain func­tion by enabling high-fideli­ty, long-term record­ings of brain cell activity
  • New fund­ing pro­gram announced to pro­mote brain health inno­va­tion and collaboration

Final­ly, we are delight­ed to announce five new excel­lent Speak­ers at the upcom­ing 2016 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: Rein­vent­ing Brain Health in the Dig­i­tal Age (Decem­ber 6–8, 2016):

  • Mary Stu­art, Senior Writer/Analyst at The MedTech Strategist
  • 2016sharpbrainssummit_logoDr. Andrea Seri­no, Head of Neu­ro­science at Mind­Maze
  • Lin­da Raines, CEO of the Men­tal Health Asso­ci­a­tion of Maryland
  • Karen Olsen, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of the Cen­ter for the Future of Pub­lic Education
  • David Coleiro, Part­ner at Strate­gic North

You can explore the Sum­mit Agen­da here, and Reg­is­ter here. Please con­sid­er join­ing us and help rein­vent brain health in the dig­i­tal age!

Thank­ful­ly,

The Sharp­Brains Team

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: behavioral, brain literacy, brain-aging, brain-development, Brain-Fitness, Brain-health, brain-scans, cognitive, Cognitive-Training, digital, health, Mental-Health, neurocognitive, psychiatric

October 21st in Tokyo: Your Health in A Virtual World

October 16, 2016 by Alvaro Fernandez

wfscTo cel­e­brate and help pre­pare for the 2020 Sum­mer Olympics in Tokyo, the Japan­ese Min­istry of Edu­ca­tion, Cul­ture, Sports, Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy and the World Eco­nom­ic Forum are host­ing a World Forum on Sport and Cul­ture in Tokyo lat­er this week.

I’ve been asked to par­tic­i­pate in a fas­ci­nat­ing ses­sion on Fri­day, Octo­ber 21st, titled Your Health in a Vir­tu­al World, address­ing the ques­tion How is our soci­etal obses­sion with tech­nol­o­gy chang­ing our health and well-being? [Read more…] about Octo­ber 21st in Tokyo: Your Health in A Vir­tu­al World

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: brain literacy, Brain-Fitness, health, lifelong, technology, Tokyo, virtual, well-being, World Forum on Sport and Culture

Let’s debunk these ten brain and brain health myths

March 14, 2016 by Alvaro Fernandez

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In hon­or of Brain Aware­ness Week 2016, let’s debunk ten myths about the brain and brain health that remain sur­pris­ing­ly popular.

Top 10 brain and brain health myths, debunked:

Myth 1. Genes deter­mine the fate of our brains.
Fact: Life­long brain plas­tic­ity means that our lifestyles and behav­iors play a sig­nif­i­cant role in how our brains (and there­fore our minds) evolve phys­i­cal­ly and func­tion­al­ly as we get older.

Myth 2. We are what we eat. [Read more…] about Let’s debunk these ten brain and brain health myths

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: baw, brain, brain literacy, brain-awareness-week, brain-myths

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