Why, to improve memory, we need to think of the brain as a system

By SharpBrains | January 24, 2013

(Edi­tor’s Note: every month we host an online Q&A with par­tic­i­pants in the e‑course How To Be Your Own Brain Fit­ness Coach. This is the light­ly edit­ed and anonymized tran­script from the Jan­u­ary Q&A ses­sion; the Feb­ru­ary Q&A will take place on Tues­day, Feb­ru­ary 12th) 2:02 OK, ready to go! Hap­py 2013 again. You can start…

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New Self-Paced Brain Fitness Course Answers 40 Common Questions about Brain Health and Brain Training

By SharpBrains | October 9, 2012

We are pleased to offer the first self-paced course designed to equip life­long learn­ers with the under­stand­ing and infor­ma­tion required to apply neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty and cog­ni­tive reserve find­ings and tools to enhance their own brain health and func­tion­al­i­ty. Detailed infor­ma­tion is avail­able at How to Be Your Own Brain Fit­ness Coach. Reg­is­tered par­tic­i­pants can imme­di­ately log into…

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Good Q&A on Mild Cognitive Impairment

By SharpBrains | September 10, 2012

Cop­ing With Mild Cog­ni­tive Impair­ment (NYT blog): “About 10 to 15 per­cent of adults age 65 and old­er are believed to have mild cog­ni­tive impair­ment — a con­di­tion com­mon­ly char­ac­ter­ized by mem­o­ry prob­lems, well beyond those asso­ci­at­ed with nor­mal aging.… The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to researchers set out to rectify 

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Invest in Brain Health to Drive Innovation and Prosperity

By Veronika Litinski | July 30, 2012

In an increas­ing­ly knowl­­edge-based and inno­­va­­tion-dri­ven econ­o­my, human brains—not finan­cial capital—are becom­ing the pri­ma­ry dri­vers of busi­ness suc­cess. Engaged, cre­ative cit­i­zens and work­ers mean the dif­fer­ence between suc­cess and fail­ure at the orga­ni­za­tion­al and soci­etal lev­els. Look­ing at the prob­lem from the per­spec­tive of brain health, there are 

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190 Sharp Brains Issue a Call to Enhance Brain Health through Neuroplasticity, Big Data and Consumer Education

By SharpBrains | June 15, 2012

-– Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit brings togeth­er glob­al lead­ers and inno­va­tors to advance the emerg­ing fields of applied neu­ro­science and brain fit­ness The third annu­al vir­tu­al Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: Opti­miz­ing Health through Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty, Inno­va­tion and Data, held June 7–14th, con­clud­ed with a call to enhance brain health by har­ness­ing neu­ro­­plas­tic­i­­ty-based appli­ca­tions, big data plat­forms and consumer…

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