New funding program announced to promote brain health innovation and collaboration

By SharpBrains | October 26, 2016

CC-ABHI’s Indus­try Inno­va­tion Part­ner­ship Pro­gram helps com­pa­nies bring their inno­v­a­tive prod­ucts or ser­vices to mar­ket faster (press release): “CC-ABHI is pleased to announce the launch of its Indus­try Inno­va­tion Part­ner­ship Pro­gram (I2P2). This new ini­tia­tive is designed to enable suc­cess­ful appli­cant com­pa­nies world­wide, to work with an eli­gi­ble seniors’ care orga­ni­za­tion tri­al part­ner to test…

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The Canadian Centre for Aging and Brain Health Innovation (CC-ABHI) launches funding program to spark R&D and commercialization initiatives

By SharpBrains | September 12, 2016

———- Up to $500,000 Avail­able Through Cana­di­an Cen­tre for Aging and Brain Health Inno­va­tion’s Spark Pro­gram to Fund New Inno­va­tions (Bay­crest press release): The Cana­di­an Cen­tre for Aging and Brain Health Inno­va­tion (CC-ABHI) announced today the launch of its Spark Pro­gram, an ini­tia­tive designed to pro­vide point-of-care work­ers in the health­care deliv­ery or ser­vice indus­try in…

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The billion dollar question: Under what conditions can brain training result in real-world benefits?

By SharpBrains | August 18, 2015

. Does any­one care if “brain games” actu­al­ly work? (For­tune): “The cog­ni­tive fit­ness mar­ket — loose­ly defined as non-inva­­sive neu­rotech­nolo­gies that mon­i­tor or enhance cog­ni­tion — is booming…The “brain game” indus­try is already a bil­lion dol­lar mar­ket, and will reach the $6 bil­lion mark with­in the next five years says Sharp­Brains, a neu­ro-well­­ness mar­ket research…

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Learning a second language, at any age, leads to better cognitive abilities

By SharpBrains | June 2, 2014

Learn­ing sec­ond lan­guage ‘slows brain age­ing’ (BBC): “Learn­ing a sec­ond lan­guage can have a pos­i­tive effect on the brain, even if it is tak­en up in adult­hood, a Uni­ver­si­ty of Edin­burgh study suggests…Using data from intel­li­gence tests on 262 Edin­burgh-born indi­vid­u­als at the age of 11, the study looked at how their cog­ni­tive abil­i­ties had…

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Update: 5 ways to pro­tect your brain, and boost your career

By SharpBrains | August 30, 2013

Time for Sharp­Brains’ August 2013 e‑newsletter, fea­turing 8 excel­lent inter­views with Speak­ers and Par­tic­i­pants in the 2013 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit (Sep­tem­ber 19–20th), 7 insight­ful media sto­ries, and more. Enjoy! Inter­view Series: San­dra Chap­man: Using inno­v­a­tive think­ing, and brain train­ing, we can rewire the brain at every lev­el Lynn Steffes: Let’s bet­ter inte­grate phys­i­cal ther­a­py and cog­ni­tive fit­ness Cori Lath­an: It’s…

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Lynn Steffes: Let’s better integrate physical therapy and cognitive fitness

By SharpBrains | August 29, 2013

What excites you the most about your job?  Thanks to the reha­bil­i­ta­tion con­sult­ing ser­vice I run, I have the amaz­ing oppor­tu­ni­ty to work with phys­i­cal reha­bil­i­ta­tion prac­tices and asso­ci­a­tions across the coun­try on pro­gram devel­op­ment, mar­ket­ing & busi­ness oper­a­tions. Pro­fes­sion­als in the rehab field are pas­sion­ate about keep­ing our pop­u­la­tion active, inde­pen­dent and enjoy­ing opti­mal quality…

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