Update: 20 Must-Know Facts to Harness Neuroplasticity and Improve Brain Health

By SharpBrains | June 30, 2016

—– Time for a new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains’ e‑newsletter,  pro­vid­ing a win­dow into the ongo­ing brain health and neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty revolutions–plus some fun brain teasers. Hap­py read­ing and, for those of you in the USA, Hap­py Fourth of July, and for those of you in Cana­da, Hap­py Cana­da Day! New research: 20 Must-Know Facts to Har­ness Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty and…

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Too early? Brain stimulation device Thync fails to get traction in the minds of consumers

By SharpBrains | June 17, 2016

How Thync, Start­up Behind Brain-Zap­ping Gad­get, Almost Died (Bloomberg): “In 2014, Sil­i­con Val­ley start­up Thync had sold tech­nol­o­gy enthu­si­asts and ven­ture cap­i­tal­ists on the idea of strap­ping a device to your fore­head that sends elec­tric shocks to the brain. The wear­able gad­get gar­nered atten­tion for its futur­is­tic promis­es of brain stimulation, 

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Brain hacking emerges as latest trend in wearable tech, but is it ready for prime time?

By SharpBrains | April 5, 2016

———- Brain-zap­ping gad­gets promise to make you a bet­ter you — smarter, stronger, even hap­pi­er (The Wash­ing­ton Post): “Amer­i­cans’ obses­sion with well­ness is fuel­ing a new cat­e­go­ry of con­sumer elec­tron­ics, one that goes far beyond the ubiq­ui­tous Fit­bits and UP activ­i­ty wrist­bands that only pas­sive­ly mon­i­tor users’ phys­i­cal activ­i­ty. The lat­est wear­able tech, to put it…

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San Francisco, April 6th: Explore the latest in Pervasive Neurotechnology @ NeuroTechSF

By SharpBrains | March 1, 2016

Heads-up: Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, our co-founder and the edi­­tor-in-chief of Sharp­Brains’ lat­est mar­ket report, will present Per­va­sive Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy: The Inno­va­tion Land­scape at Neu­roTech SF 2016, a new indus­try con­fer­ence explor­ing break­throughs in brain mon­i­tor­ing, BCI, neu­ro­feed­back and stim­u­la­tion. –> To Learn More & Reg­is­ter, click HERE (20%-off dis­count code: SB20)

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Study: Neuroscientists pinpoint the brain and performance impact of a (perceived) judgmental audience

By SharpBrains | January 28, 2016

Why your brain makes you slip up when anx­ious (Sci­ence Dai­ly): “As musi­cians, fig­ure skaters and any­one who takes a dri­ving test will know, the anx­i­ety of being watched can have a dis­as­trous effect on your per­for­mance… In the new study, pub­lished in Sci­en­tif­ic Reports, par­tic­i­pants’ brain activ­i­ty was mon­i­tored while 

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Key take-aways from the 2015 SharpBrains Virtual Summit

By SharpBrains | December 16, 2015

. Take-aways from 2015 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Neu­rotech News): “In Novem­ber (17th-19th) Sharp­Brains held its Vir­tu­al Sum­mit about “Mon­i­tor­ing & Enhanc­ing Brain Health in the Per­va­sive Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy Era.” The Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit is, as you might guess, a vir­tu­al (online) conference…The vir­tu­al sum­mit had it’s own divi­sion of top­ics for group­ing the dif­fer­ent speak­ers (see…

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