SharpBrains Council Monthly Insights: How will we assess, enhance and repair cognition across the lifespan?

By SharpBrains | November 18, 2010

When you think of how the PC has altered the fab­ric of soci­ety, per­mit­ting instant access to infor­ma­tion and automat­ing process­es beyond our wildest dreams, it is instruc­tive to con­sid­er that much of this progress was dri­ven by Moore’s law. Halv­ing the size of semi­con­duc­tor every 18 months catal­ysed an expo­nen­tial accel­er­a­tion in per­for­mance. Why…

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Mobile Brain Training, Scientific Learning, and More News

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 30, 2008

Some recent brain train­ing and health news:  1) A Promis­ing Debut for Com­put­er­ized Ther­a­pies 2) Fit­ness pro­tects brain in Alzheimer’s patients 3) Brain Fit­ness Pro­gram Clas­sic comes to Mac 4) Posit Sci­ence gains own­er­ship of Sci­en­tif­ic Learn­ing (NSDQ: SCIL) Brain­Con­nec­tion. 5) Brain train­ing on your mobile 6) You must remem­ber this: how the mind works Here you…

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Closing the Circuit: Helen Mayberg’s research could revolutionize depression treatment

By Greater Good Science Center | February 7, 2008 |

At some point in their lives, 5 to 12 per­cent of Amer­i­can men and 10–25 per­cent of women will suf­fer an episode of depres­sion, mak­ing it the most com­mon­ly diag­nosed men­tal dis­or­der today. Unlike nor­mal sad­ness, which pass­es with time, depres­sion feels unstop­pable and caus­es peo­ple to lose inter­est in near­ly all activ­i­ties. Because it…

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Brains Way Smarter Than Ours (and yours, probably)

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 26, 2007 |

Roundup of recent arti­cles: 1) Awards ‑Very smart brains: Fun Slate arti­cle, Sev­en Inge­nious Rules: How to become a MacArthur genius, once the 24 new MacArthur Fel­lows were announced (Dear read­er: if you are a past, present or future win­ner, please for­give me for the title). ‑The Tech Muse­um of Inno­va­tion Announces 2007 Awards (we had…

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Brain Fitness at Neurotech Industry Conference

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 12, 2007 |

Zack Lynch from Neu­roIn­sights reminds us that the early­bird reg­is­tra­tion for the Neu­rotech Indus­try Invest­ing and Busi­ness con­fer­ence is about to expire. You can reg­is­ter by April 13th to save $300. Con­fer­ence Details: Date: May 17 — 18, 2007 Loca­tion: West­in San Fran­cis­co, Mill­brae, CA High­ly rec­om­mend­ed con­fer­ence for any­one work­ing on biotech, med­ical devices, diag­nos­tics and…

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