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News you can use: To improve memory, exercise brain and body at the same time

February 27, 2018 by SharpBrains

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Time for Sharp­Brains’ eNewslet­ter  track­ing the lat­est think­ing, research and tools for brain health.

This month we fea­ture five fas­ci­nat­ing inter­views at the fron­tier of applied neu­ro­science and a recent study sug­gest­ing that “Per­form­ing mem­o­ry train­ing exer­cis­es at the same time as ped­al­ing a sta­tion­ary bike led to bet­ter gains in mem­o­ry than doing the train­ing exer­cis­es after work­ing up a sweat…”

Enjoy the read!

New thinking:

  • A con­ver­sa­tion with Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg on Cre­ativ­i­ty, Neu­ro­science, and Tech­no­log­i­cal Innovation
  • Neu­ropsy­chol­o­gist Amy Serin would like to see every­one avoid the detri­men­tal effects of an over­ac­tive stress response
  • Dr. Albert Kwon wants to har­ness Aug­ment­ed Real­i­ty to sig­nif­i­cant­ly ease access to Neu­ro­log­i­cal Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Therapies
  • Tara Thi­a­gara­jan on build­ing a glob­al plat­form for brain research that tru­ly cap­tures the diver­si­ty of humanity
  • Jan Samzelius on why mon­i­tor­ing Typ­ing Cadence may help detect ear­ly Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s Disease

New research:

  • To max­i­mize cog­ni­tive ben­e­fits, study sug­gests you exer­cise brain and body at the same time
  • 10-year study finds that the high­er the blood sug­ar lev­el, the faster the cog­ni­tive decline over time — regard­less of dia­bet­ic status
  • New book by Steven Pinker reminds us that Tech­nol­o­gy is not destroy­ing our Minds (but there’s always more Enlight­ened ways to har­ness it)
  • The Chan Zucker­berg Ini­tia­tive reach­es out of neu­ro­science to expand its Neu­rode­gen­er­a­tion Chal­lenge Network

New tools:

  • NHS Choic­es helps improve brain health and sci­ence lit­er­a­cy by report­ing find­ings in con­text — as seen in this brain train­ing & schiz­o­phre­nia example
  • Halo Neu­ro­science rais­es $13M to fur­ther devel­op and com­mer­cial­ize neu­ro­mod­u­la­tion head­set aimed at induc­ing “hyper­plas­tic­i­ty”
  • Ohio Opi­oid Tech­nol­o­gy Chal­lenge funds pro­gram test­ing neu­ro­feed­back-based brain train­ing to reduce crav­ings and bat­tle opi­oid addiction

 

Final­ly, you may want to learn about cog­ni­tion and men­tal self-rota­tion with these quick brain teasers.

Have a great month of March,

The Sharp­Brains Team

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Peak Performance, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Albert Kwon, Amy Serin, augmented reality, Brain Teasers, Brain-health, brain-research, brain-teaser, Brain-Training, cognitive-decline, creativity, diversity, Elkhonon-Goldberg, Halo Neuroscience, hyperplasticity, innovation, Jan Samzelius, neurodegeneration, Neurofeedback, neurological, Neuropsychology, neuroscience, NHS Choices, rehabilitation, Steven-Pinker, Stress Response, Tara Thiagarajan

Tara Thiagarajan, Founder of Brainnovations Winner Sapien Labs, on building a global platform for brain research that truly captures the diversity of humanity

February 8, 2018 by Alvaro Fernandez

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What sur­prised you the most from the Judges’ ques­tions and feed­back dur­ing the Brain­no­va­tions Pitch Con­test?

I was pleas­ant­ly sur­prised to see the sig­nif­i­cant range and depth of knowl­edge shown by the judg­ing pan­el, lead­ing to very spe­cif­ic and use­ful ques­tions around the key chal­lenges to build our glob­al research platform.

In a nut­shell, what is the core idea behind Sapi­en Labs?

The core idea is to fur­ther our under­stand­ing of the large dif­fer­ences between indi­vid­ual brains in order to man­age our brain health and brain states bet­ter. [Read more…] about Tara Thi­a­gara­jan, Founder of Brain­no­va­tions Win­ner Sapi­en Labs, on build­ing a glob­al plat­form for brain research that tru­ly cap­tures the diver­si­ty of humanity

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: big data, biomarkers, brain, Brain-Imaging, brainbase, Brainnovations, brains, data aggregation, diagnostics, diet, diversity, ECoG, EEG, electrophysiology, exercise, global research, IRB approvals, LFP, meditation, Neurolabs, physiological, Sapien Labs, social-media

Trend: Celebrating neurodiversity in the workforce to harness all brains for good

February 6, 2018 by SharpBrains

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Fight­ing Cyber­crime with Neu­ro-Diver­si­ty (Project Syndicate):

“Cyber­se­cu­ri­ty is one of the defin­ing chal­lenges of the dig­i­tal age. Every­one, from house­holds to busi­ness­es to gov­ern­ments, has a stake in pro­tect­ing our era’s most valu­able com­mod­i­ty: data. The ques­tion is how that can be achieved…

The key to suc­cess is diver­si­ty of tal­ents and per­spec­tives. This includes neu­ro­log­i­cal diver­si­ty [Read more…] about Trend: Cel­e­brat­ing neu­ro­di­ver­si­ty in the work­force to har­ness all brains for good

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: Asperger syndrome, attention-deficit-disorder, autism, cognitive, cybersecurity, digital age, diversity, neurodiversity, neurological, neurological diversity

Next in Human Resources: Seeing cognitive diversity as an asset to build on, not a problem to avoid

July 13, 2016 by SharpBrains

brains_neurodiversityNeu­ro­di­ver­si­ty: The Ben­e­fits of Recruit­ing Employ­ees with Cog­ni­tive Dis­abil­i­ties (Har­vard Busi­ness School’s Work­ing Knowledge):

There’s a new fron­tier in diver­si­ty pro­grams focused not on race or gen­der but on cog­ni­tive ability.

The grow­ing inter­est in neurodiversity—hiring peo­ple with cog­ni­tive dis­abil­i­ties like Autism Spec­trum Dis­or­der (ASD)—is moti­vat­ed by com­pa­nies look­ing to tap into [Read more…] about Next in Human Resources: See­ing cog­ni­tive diver­si­ty as an asset to build on, not a prob­lem to avoid

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning, Peak Performance Tagged With: autism spectrum disorder, cognitive, cognitive disabilities, cognitive-ability, disabilities, diversity, Harvard, Human-Resources, neurodiversity, workforce

Planet Earth 2.0: Yes We Can

November 11, 2008 by Alvaro Fernandez

Imag­ine see­ing a top sheik from Dubai, wrapped in tra­di­tion­al Arab cloth­ing, exclaim “Yes We Can” in front of the 800 experts gath­ered dur­ing the Sum­mit of the Glob­al Agen­da that just took place in Dubai, co-orga­nized by the World Eco­nom­ic Forum and the Gov­ern­ment of Dubai. This same sheik added that “we build the future with our own hands”.

You can read more about the main points of the Glob­al Agen­da Coun­cils con­ver­sa­tion here: Dis­cus­sion High­lights. Below go some of my own still-jet­lagged reflections.

The finan­cial cri­sis has made obvi­ous the obvi­ous: that we live in a tru­ly new and glob­al world.

And that busi­ness as usu­al will lead to glob­al dis­as­ter — we need new approach­es to col­lec­tive­ly adapt to and thrive in this new envi­ron­ment. The answer is not to go back to any old par­a­digm, which sim­ply will not work in a new real­i­ty, but to imag­ine and build a bet­ter new way of doing things.

Some of the atten­dants urged us to “reboot” the sys­tem. I don’t think that a “reboot” is enough — we need to upgrade to a new oper­at­ing sys­tem. We can call it Plan­et Earth 2.0.Based on the group dis­cus­sion we had on Sun­day morn­ing, let me pro­pose some of the archi­tec­tur­al prin­ci­ples that should under­lie any emerg­ing Plan­et Earth 2.0 oper­at­ing sys­tem. [Read more…] about Plan­et Earth 2.0: Yes We Can

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: action, agenda, architecture, diversity, Dubai, Earth-2.0, global, Globall-Agenda-Councils, human-capital, imagination, innovation, mindful, neurocognitive, operating-system, reboot, Summit-Global-agenda, synthesis, values, World-Economic-Forum, Yes-We-Can

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