Neuropsychologist Amy Serin, Co-Founder of Brainnovations Winner The Touchpoint Solution, would like to see everyone avoid the detrimental effects of an overactive stress response

Dr. Serin, what sur­prised you the most from the Judges’ ques­tions and feed­back dur­ing the Brain­no­va­tions Pitch Con­test? It was great that at least one of the judges had already pur­chased and start­ed using our prod­uct so we could delve into the nuances of our tech­nol­o­gy quick­ly. And I was thrilled that all judges saw…

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New Summit Speaker: David Nill, Chief Medical Officer at Cerner

We’re proud to announce a new and excel­lent speak­er at the upcom­ing 2013 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit (Sep­tem­ber 19–20th), to dis­cuss an ambi­tious ongo­ing ini­tia­tive to embed brain health solu­tions into cor­po­rate well­ness. Dr. David Nill, Vice Pres­i­dent and Chief Med­ical Offi­cer at Cern­er Cor­po­ra­tion, is respon­si­ble for inno­va­tion of clin­i­cal aspects of health and care ser­vices for…

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10 Predictions on How Digital Platforms will Transform Brain Health in 2013

Just a quick note: we’ll host a webi­nar on Jan­u­ary 30th to dis­cuss key mar­ket pre­dic­tions based on “The Dig­i­tal Brain Health Mar­ket 2012–2020: Web-based, mobile and bio­met­rics-based tech­nol­ogy to assess, mon­i­tor and enhance cog­ni­tion and brain func­tion­ing”, our new mar­ket report. Here are 10 pre­dic­tions, many of which will like­ly be real­ized before the…

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Top 10 Brain Training Trends — Putting our Cognitive Reserve to Work

Yes­ter­day I had the chance to chat with Yaakov Stern, lead­ing Cog­ni­tive Reserve researcher at Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty, and then with a group of 25 life­long learn­ers in Ari­zona who attend­ed a brain fit­ness class (hel­lo, Robert and friends!) based on our con­sumer guide The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness. On reflec­tion, I found both conversations…

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FAQ about SharpBrains Council for Brain Fitness Innovation

We have received many good ques­tions about the new Sharp­Brains Coun­cil for Brain Fit­ness Inno­va­tion — below you have some answers. Ques­tion: We are based in Asia/ Australia/ Europe. Will time dif­fer­ences pre­vent us from par­tic­i­pat­ing in month­ly brief­in­gs and ben­e­fit­ing from the Coun­cil? Answer: We will do our best to facil­i­tate a tru­ly global…

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