Debate: What are the ethics of discouraging much-needed innovation given potential privacy concerns?

By SharpBrains | November 22, 2019

Sto­ry descrip­tion (CNN Mon­ey): Ned Sahin is founder and CEO of neu­rotech­nol­o­gy start-up Brain Pow­er, whose tool “Empow­er Me” uses smart glass­es like Google Glass to coach those with autism. It helps school­child­ren learn social and cog­ni­tive skills and can even guide adults through an inter­view process. Brain Power’s prod­uct is sold to many schools…

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Good news: Apparently neither Google nor smartphones are frying our brains

By SharpBrains | September 13, 2016

—– Researchers look at how brain pow­er is affect­ed by dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies (CBC News): “…how much is our reliance on smart­phones as mem­o­ry aides affect­ing the way our brains work? Two psy­chol­o­gists from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Water­loo — Evan Risko and Sam Gilbert — looked at the research that has been done in the field of…

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Study: Shift work chronically impairs cognition

By SharpBrains | November 5, 2014

— Long-Term Shift Work Linked To Impaired Brain Func­tion (Forbes): “Accord­ing to results of a new study, long-term shift work may lead to impaired brain pow­er which could involve cog­ni­tive skills such as think­ing, rea­son­ing and memory…The impact was much greater after a peri­od of 10 or more years of such a work pattern —…

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12 Ways Yoga Meditation Helps Nourish The Body, Brain and Mind

By Dr. Dharma Singh Khalsa @ Alzheimer's Research & Prevention Foundation | October 25, 2013 |

An easy, low cost, nat­ur­al prac­tice can help us boost our brain pow­er, be health­i­er and more spir­i­tu­al­ly attuned as we age, and improve our qual­i­ty of life and hap­pi­ness. It could also reduce some of the stag­ger­ing health care costs seen today. Curi­ous about what that prac­tice is? Recent­ly The Alzheimer’s Research and Pre­ven­tion Foun­da­tion (ARPF),…

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Update: How Stress and Emotions Impact Brain Performance

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 28, 2011

Spon­sored Ad (How to Adver­tise on SharpBrains.com) Time for the Octo­ber edi­tion of the month­ly Sharp­Brains eNewslet­ter, fea­tur­ing this time sev­er­al arti­cles on the impact of stress, emo­tions, and self-reg­u­la­­tion, on our brain’s struc­ture and per­for­mance. We are pleased to bring to Sharp­Brains read­ers a new 6‑part series on the Neu­ro­bi­ol­ogy of Stress, based on a…

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