Announcement: Five new excellent Speakers @ 2016 SharpBrains Virtual Summit

By SharpBrains | November 21, 2016

We are delight­ed to announce five new excel­lent Speak­ers at the upcom­ing 2016 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: Rein­vent­ing Brain Health in the Dig­i­tal Age (Decem­ber 6–8, 2016): Mary Stu­art, Senior Writer/Analyst at The MedTech Strate­gist Dr. Andrea Seri­no, Head of Neu­ro­science at Mind­Maze Lin­da Raines, CEO of the Men­tal Health Asso­ci­a­tion of Mary­land Karen Olsen, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of the Cen­ter for…

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Brain Health in the Digital Age

By SharpBrains | November 7, 2016

Brain Health in the Dig­i­tal Age from Sharp­Brains Pre­sen­ta­tion deliv­ered by Alvaro Fer­nan­dez at UBC Rob­son Square in Van­cou­ver, on Novem­ber 4th, host­ed by the Wat­son Cen­tre for Brain Health. Descrip­tion: Brain health is a rapid­ly evolv­ing field, with dig­i­tal plat­forms start­ing to rev­o­lu­tion­ize all aspects of pre­ven­tion, diag­no­sis and treat­ment. Dis­cov­er how the growing…

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Reinventing Brain Health in the Digital Age…exactly 2 months from today

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 6, 2016

Exact­ly two months from today, these lead­ing sci­en­tists, inno­va­tors and experts will dis­cuss eight pri­or­i­ties to Rein­vent Brain Health in the Dig­i­tal Age. Please take a look at the Pre­lim­i­nary Agen­da, and at the list of gen­er­ous Sum­mit Spon­sors mak­ing the gath­er­ing pos­si­ble. Also, we have answered some Fre­quent­ly Asked Ques­tions, and pre­pared the brief video above (1 minute…

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Update: New tools, research and thinking to promote Brain Health in the Digital Age

By SharpBrains | September 23, 2016

———- The Times They Are a‑Changin. In a recent sur­vey, 91% of those polled said that “Doc­tors should mon­i­tor cog­ni­tive health sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly, espe­cial­ly when pre­scrib­ing new medica­ments.” This is impor­tant news, as any­one who has expe­ri­enced neg­a­tive side-effects, cog­ni­tive or oth­er­wise, knows. We need to upgrade our brain health sys­tem to reflect the real­i­ties, chal­lenges and…

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We need to reinvent Brain Health

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 15, 2016 |

———- The Times They Are a‑Changin. In a recent sur­vey, 91% of those polled agreed with this state­ment: “Doc­tors should mon­i­tor cog­ni­tive health sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly, espe­cial­ly when pre­scrib­ing new medica­ments.” This is impor­tant news, as any­one who has expe­ri­enced neg­a­tive side-effects, cog­ni­tive or oth­er­wise, knows. We need to upgrade our brain health sys­tem to reflect the realities,…

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