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Helius Medical and HealthTech Connex partner to develop neuroplasticity clinics in Canada

October 3, 2018 by SharpBrains

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Helius Med­ical Tech­nolo­gies and HealthTech Con­nex Announce Alliance to Build Cana­di­an Com­mer­cial Infra­struc­ture (press release):

“Helius Med­ical Tech­nolo­gies, Inc. (NASDAQ:HSDT) (TSX:HSM), a neu­rotech com­pa­ny focused on neu­ro­log­i­cal well­ness, today announced that the Com­pa­ny has entered into an agree­ment with HealthTech Con­nex, Inc. (“HTC”) to devel­op and man­age neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty clin­ics in Cana­da. [Read more…] about Helius Med­ical and HealthTech Con­nex part­ner to devel­op neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty clin­ics in Canada

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Canada, clinics, HealthTech Connex, Helius Medical Technologies, Heuro Canada, neurological wellness, neuromodulation, neuroplasticity, neurotech

Report finds only 35% of Canadian youth get the physical activity recommended for brain health

June 22, 2018 by SharpBrains

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Get­ting kids out­side and active could help with brain health: Par­tic­i­paction report (The Globe and Mail):

“The phys­i­cal ben­e­fits of kids lead­ing an active lifestyle, includ­ing bet­ter heart health and a decreased risk of devel­op­ing Type 2 dia­betes, are well known. But a grow­ing body of research sug­gests there are sig­nif­i­cant men­tal ben­e­fits as well, whether it’s low­er­ing stress lev­els or help­ing to treat anx­i­ety and depres­sion. A new report released by Par­tic­i­paction on Tues­day draws atten­tion to this link, [Read more…] about Report finds only 35% of Cana­di­an youth get the phys­i­cal activ­i­ty rec­om­mend­ed for brain health

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: anxiety, brain-function, Brain-health, Canada, depression, diabetes, health, heart, heart health, improve-cognition, lifestyle, mental benefits, Mental-Health, stress-levels

$3 million available for innovative solutions aimed at older adults via The Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation (CABHI)

August 30, 2017 by SharpBrains

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Cen­tre for Aging + Brain Health Inno­va­tion announces up to $3 mil­lion in fund­ing avail­able to sup­port indus­try inno­va­tions in the field of aging and brain health (press release):

“The Cen­tre for Aging + Brain Health Inno­va­tion (CABHI) announced today the sec­ond round of fund­ing avail­able through its Indus­try Inno­va­tion Part­ner­ship Pro­gram (I2P2). This pro­gram is designed to enable [Read more…] about $3 mil­lion avail­able for inno­v­a­tive solu­tions aimed at old­er adults via The Cen­tre for Aging + Brain Health Inno­va­tion (CABHI)

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: aging, Aging-in-Place, Baycrest, Baycrest Foundation, brain health innovation, Brain-health, CABHI, Canada, caregiver support, cognitive, cognitive-health, Cognitive-impairment, innovation, mental well being, Ontario

Brain fitness matters in Canada: Upcoming talks in Toronto and Victoria

May 14, 2013 by Alvaro Fernandez

speakerHeads up: I’ll be in Toron­to this Wednes­day and Thurs­day to speak  on “The Web as a Gym for the Brain” at mesh13, and to present our new book on How to Opti­mize Brain Health and Per­for­mance at Any Age at MaRS Dis­cov­ery Dis­trict. If you’re attend­ing either, please say Hel­lo! [Read more…] about Brain fit­ness mat­ters in Cana­da: Upcom­ing talks in Toron­to and Victoria

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: brain, Brain-health, Canada, Con­fer­ence Board, keynote, MaRS, mesh13, Toronto, web

Transcript: Online Q&A on the Future of Brain Health with Alvaro Fernandez

March 16, 2012 by SharpBrains

Below you can find the full tran­script of our engag­ing Q&A ses­sion today, Fri­day March 16th, on brain sus­tain­abil­i­ty, retool­ing brain health, and applied neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty, with Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, Sharp­Brains’ Co-Founder who’s just been named a Young Glob­al Leader by the World Eco­nom­ic Forum. You can learn more about the top­ic by read­ing this 2011 Sharp­Brains Sum­mit Meet­ing Report and this Info­graph­ic.

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Great, we are ready to start!  [Read more…] about Tran­script: Online Q&A on the Future of Brain Health with Alvaro Fernandez

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: biofeedback, brain, Brain-Fitness, brain-gym, Brain-health, Brain-Training, Brainology, Canada, cogmed, cognitive-behavioral-therapy, Cognitive-Training, Education & Lifelong Learning, heart-rate-variability, innovation, lifespan, meditation, Mental-Health, neuroplasticity, NIMH, Pearson, productivity, schizophrenia, Singapore, status quo, stress-reduction, Thomas Insel, UK, working-memory-training, World-Economic-Forum, Young Global Leaders

Top 10 Quotes on Lifelong Neuroplasticity and Neurogenesis (and a Call to eBook Readers)

December 6, 2011 by Alvaro Fernandez

You may have  noticed that Amazon.com is shar­ing aggre­gat­ed data on how ebook read­ers inter­act with the books they are read­ing. For exam­ple, the “Pop­u­lar High­lights” sec­tion (towards the bot­tom of our Kin­dle book page) ranks the Top 10 sen­tences that Kin­dle read­ers have high­light­ed and shared while read­ing The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness: 18 Inter­views with Sci­en­tists, Prac­ti­cal Advice and Prod­uct Reviews, to Keep Your Brain Sharp (April 2009; 182 pages; ranked #1 in Kin­dle Store’s Pre­ven­tive Med­i­cine section).

This infor­ma­tion is invalu­able to authors and pub­lish­ers — as you can imag­ine, we’ll make sure to not only main­tain but to elab­o­rate on these top­ics as we pre­pare future edi­tions of the book.

So, what are so far the Top Ten Quotes on Life­long Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty and Neu­ro­ge­n­e­sis, [Read more…] about Top 10 Quotes on Life­long Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty and Neu­ro­ge­n­e­sis (and a Call to eBook Readers)

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: AARP, Amazon, amazon.com, attention, best book, brain, brain health book, Brain-atrophy, Brain-Fitness, Brain-health, Canada, chronic-stress, cognition, cognitive-health, cognitive-skills, ebook, emotion, France, Germany, gray-matter, higher cognition, iPad, Italy, kindle, Kindle Store, Learning, lifelong, Lifelong-learning, memory, nerve growth factor, Neurogenesis, Neurons, neuroplasticity, neuroprotective, Nook, Physical-Exercise, preventive, Preventive-Medicine, publishing, quotes, relaxation, self-empowerment, sharp-brain, sharpbrain, smashwords, social, Spain, UK, usa, white-matter

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