corporate-wellness

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

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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 the pos­si­bil­i­ties to cre­ate sig­nif­i­cant glob­al impact.

In a nut­shell, what is the core idea behind Touch­Points?

Too many peo­ple suf­fer too much stress, often lead­ing to sleep­less­ness, crav­ings, anger, poor focus, poor per­for­mance, and feel­ing over­whelmed. Touch­Points aim at reduc­ing stress by deliv­er­ing hap­tic microvi­bra­tions via wear­able devices worn on both sides of the body. The [Read more…] about 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

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

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DavidNillWe’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 Healthe , an ini­tia­tive aimed at increas­ing the resilience and well­be­ing for Cern­er asso­ciates. [Read more…] about New Sum­mit Speak­er: David Nill, Chief Med­ical Offi­cer at Cerner

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

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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 end of 2013: [Read more…] about 10 Pre­dic­tions on How Dig­i­tal Plat­forms will Trans­form Brain Health in 2013

Nationwide Insurance’s Kath­leen Herath on Brain-Based Corporate Wellness Initiatives

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Kath­leen will run an edu­ca­tion­al work­shop on How Nation­wide Insur­ance rolled-out a Brain-based Cor­po­rate Well­ness Ini­tia­tive. An in-depth case study out­lin­ing busi­ness ratio­nale, ven­dor selec­tion, pilot test and roll-out, and return-on-invest­ment, at the upcom­ing 2012 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (June 7–14th, 2012).

Kath­leen Herath is the Asso­ciate Vice Pres­i­dent Health & Pro­duc­tiv­ity at Nation­wide Insur­ance. Kath­leen Herath, RN, BSN CRRN, over­sees the Health and Pro­duc­tiv­ity strat­egy [Read more…] about Nation­wide Insurance’s Kath­leen Herath on Brain-Based Cor­po­rate Well­ness Initiatives

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

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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 to be very stim­u­lat­ing for the same rea­son: they were for­ward-look­ing, focused not so much on sta­tus quo but on how emerg­ing research, tech­nol­o­gy and trends may impact our soci­ety and lives in years to come. Let’s con­tin­ue the con­ver­sa­tion. Let me share the 10 main trends that we analyzed/ fore­cast­ed in our book, and then ask you, sharp read­ers, to add your own 2 cents to the dis­cus­sion. [Read more…] about Top 10 Brain Train­ing Trends — Putting our Cog­ni­tive Reserve to Work

FAQ about SharpBrains Council for Brain Fitness Innovation

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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 com­mu­ni­ty and exchange. Please con­sid­er that…

  1. we will sched­ule month­ly brief­in­gs at 2 sep­a­rate times, one at 9am US Pacif­ic Time, the oth­er at 4pm US Pacif­ic Time, both cov­er­ing the same top­ic (but per­haps with dif­fer­ent guest speak­ers). And brief­in­gs will be recorded.
  2. most activ­i­ties and resources are asyn­chro­nous any­way. Our mar­ket intel­li­gence reports and oth­er mate­ri­als are avail­able via this mem­bers-only online com­mu­ni­ty 24/7, same as online dis­cus­sion forums, focused groups to track/ dis­cuss spe­cif­ic top­ics, the abil­i­ty to ask ques­tions to and con­nect with oth­er members…

Ques­tion: Will some­thing change regard­ing SharpBrains.com blog and month­ly newslet­ter, which are great free resources?

Answer: We plan to  main­tain those free resources, focus­ing on con­tent of a gen­er­al inter­est for every­one with a brain. The Coun­cil’s pur­pose is to cre­ate a new valu­able in-depth resource and com­mu­ni­ty for pro­fes­sion­als and orga­ni­za­tions active with brain fit­ness ini­tia­tives, so we can all learn and share dur­ing the year, and help the field mature. That will include [Read more…] about FAQ about Sharp­Brains Coun­cil for Brain Fit­ness Innovation