cognitive-science

New DARPA initiative aims to harness cognitive science, sensors and machine learning to detect early brain signs of depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation

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New Cog­ni­tive Sci­ence Tool to Shed Light on Men­tal Health (DARPA press release):

Since Sept. 11, 2001, more than 30,000 active duty mem­bers and vet­er­ans have tak­en their own lives – four times as many as those killed in post-911 mil­i­tary oper­a­tions. Cur­rent meth­ods to detect ear­ly signs of behav­ioral and men­tal health risk fac­tors rely on self-report­ing and screen­ing ques­tion­naires, which can’t reli­ably pre­dict sui­ci­dal­i­ty. Effec­tive behav­ioral health assess­ment is a mis­sion-crit­i­cal capa­bil­i­ty requir­ing nov­el tools to iden­ti­fy and help those at risk.

Today, DARPA announced the Neur­al Evi­dence Aggre­ga­tion Tool (NEAT) pro­gram. NEAT aims to devel­op a new cog­ni­tive sci­ence tool that iden­ti­fies peo­ple at risk of sui­cide by using pre­con­scious brain sig­nals rather than ask­ing ques­tions and wait­ing for con­scious­ly fil­tered respons­es. [Read more…] about New DARPA ini­tia­tive aims to har­ness cog­ni­tive sci­ence, sen­sors and machine learn­ing to detect ear­ly brain signs of depres­sion, anx­i­ety, and sui­ci­dal ideation

Join 100+ Innovators, Experts and Practitioners Reinventing Brain Health in the Digital Age

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-- Registrants to the 2016 SharpBrains Virtual Summit, as of November 10th
– Reg­is­trants to the 2016 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit, as of Novem­ber 10th

Dear read­er,

As men­tioned a few days ago via our e‑newsletter, and regard­less of pol­i­tics, sev­en and a half bil­lion peo­ple con­tin­ue to have unique and pre­cious human brains and minds.

Please con­sid­er join­ing the 105 par­tic­i­pants reg­is­tered already for the upcom­ing 2016 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: Rein­vent­ing Brain Health in the Dig­i­tal Age (Decem­ber 6–8th). We’d love to count on your per­spec­tive, and your orga­ni­za­tion’s. Please come learn and dis­cuss with many experts and inno­va­tors such as [Read more…] about Join 100+ Inno­va­tors, Experts and Prac­ti­tion­ers Rein­vent­ing Brain Health in the Dig­i­tal Age

Not every brain is or needs exactly the same: A sur­vey of pri­or­i­ties across geog­ra­phy and age

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Beyond the US col­lege student’s brain: A sur­vey of pri­or­i­ties across geog­ra­phy and age from Sharp­Brains

–> Learn more & Reg­is­ter to par­tic­i­pate at the upcom­ing 2016 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: Rein­vent­ing Brain Health (Decem­ber 6–8th, 2016)

5 ideas to help knowledge workers increase lifelong learning and productivity

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worker-brains—–

Some apps aim to help you train spe­cif­ic brain func­tions, such as work­ing mem­o­ry. Oth­ers are meant to help you main­tain spe­cif­ic skills, such as use­ful field of view for safe dri­ving. But sup­pose you are read­ing a very insight­ful book and need to mas­ter some of its knowl­edge gems.

What kind of app might you use? [Read more…] about 5 ideas to help knowl­edge work­ers increase life­long learn­ing and productivity

A new type of cognitive science think tank

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think-tank-model

The recent­ly crowd­fund­ed project The Think Tank is “an art+science team-up between artists and sci­en­tists from Tyler Alterman’s lab. Togeth­er we will trans­form a recy­cled box truck into a ful­ly func­tion­ing lab with a glow­ing pink brain on top. The result: a lit­er­al and metaphor­i­cal vehi­cle for empow­er­ing the pub­lic with cog­ni­tive science.…”

They are host­ing a fun-look­ing gala & ben­e­fits event on June 18th at CUNY in NYC. You can learn more Here (opens 2‑minute YouTube video). If you’re in NYC and can attend, we hope you enjoy it!

Sharp­Brains is donat­ing 12 copies of our brand-new brain book to con­tribute to a great cause.

From Anti-Alzheimer’s “Magic Bullets” to True Brain Health

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If you fol­lowed lat­est head­lines sur­round­ing the release of the Nation­al Alzheimer’s Plan, you’d prob­a­bly con­clude that the like­ly solu­tion to main­tain life­long brain health is sim­ple: sim­ply wait until 2025 for a “mag­ic bul­let” to be dis­cov­ered, to cure (or end or pre­vent) Alzheimer’s dis­ease and aging asso­ci­at­ed cog­ni­tive decline. These kinds of beliefs, often rein­forced by doc­tors and adver­tis­ing, may explain the bil­lions spent today by phar­ma com­pa­nies on dis­cov­er­ing new com­pounds, and by con­sumers on sup­ple­ments like gink­go bilo­ba. But [Read more…] about From Anti-Alzheimer’s “Mag­ic Bul­lets” to True Brain Health