10 favorite moments from the 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit/ Recordings are Available

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 15, 2017

Whew. What a rich and cut­t­ing-edge 3‑day con­ver­sa­tion last week on the future of brain health and brain enhance­ment. We enjoyed dozens of fas­ci­nat­ing insights and moments — here’s a sam­ple of our favorites: 1. That mas­ter­ful 40-minute overview by Dr. Tom Insel on the past, present and future of men­tal health 2. Dis­cussing with Akil­i’s…

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Announcing new Sponsor & Partners to support the 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (December 5–7th)

By SharpBrains | October 2, 2017

Proud to announce a new Sum­mit Spon­sor and two new Sum­mit Part­ners help­ing make the 2017 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit a great suc­cess! New Sil­ver Spon­sor EMOTIV is a bioin­for­mat­ics com­pa­ny advanc­ing under­stand­ing of the human brain using elec­troen­cephalog­ra­phy (EEG) with a mis­sion to empow­er indi­vid­u­als and accel­er­ate brain research glob­al­ly. Dur­ing Expo Day, the com­pa­ny will…

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Collecting neuro-response data via wearable electroencephalography (EEG) headsets to personalize the presentation of stimuli: Key neurotech patent by Nielsen

By SharpBrains | May 31, 2017
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Today we are shar­ing a 2013 patent by The Nielsen Com­pa­ny. (As men­tioned, we are fea­tur­ing foun­da­tion­al Per­va­sive Neu­rotech patents, from old­er to new­er by issue date, to help pre­view emerg­ing neu­rotech­nolo­gies and brain health solu­tions) U.S. Patent No. 8,392,251: Loca­tion aware pre­sen­ta­tion of stim­u­lus mate­r­i­al Assignee(s): The Nielsen Com­pa­ny Inventor(s): Anan­tha Pradeep, Robert T. Knight, Ramachandran…

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Evaluating neural responses via EEG brain data in virtual reality environments: Key neurotechnology patent by The Nielsen Company

By SharpBrains | May 23, 2017
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Today we are shar­ing a fas­ci­nat­ing patent by The Nielsen Com­pa­ny, rel­e­vant both for con­sumer research and for home health solu­tions. (As men­tioned, we are fea­tur­ing foun­da­tion­al Per­va­sive Neu­rotech patents, from old­er to new­er by issue date) U.S. Patent No. 8,392,250: Neu­ro-response eval­u­at­ed stim­u­lus in vir­tu­al real­i­ty envi­ron­ments Assignee(s): The Nielsen Com­pa­ny Inventor(s): Anan­tha Pradeep, Robert T. Knight,…

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Study: Is modernity leading to a growing Cognitive Divide?

By SharpBrains | May 19, 2017

— Has Mod­ern Expe­ri­ence Changed The Human Brain? (NPR): “The brain has evolved over evo­lu­tion­ary time scales of mil­lions of years. So, what is the like­li­hood that the rel­a­tive­ly recent advent of read­ing and writ­ing, or motor­ized trans­port, or the Inter­net, could have changed our brains?

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Want a music system that lifts you up when you’re feeling down? Meet this audio headset with bio-signal sensors (key neurotech patent #48)

By SharpBrains | May 18, 2017

— Today we are fea­tur­ing a fas­ci­nat­ing patent by Neu­roSky, cou­pling an audio head­phone set sys­tem with EEG sig­nal detec­tion. U.S. Patent No. 8,271,075: Audio head­set with bio-sig­­nal sen­sors Assignee(s): Neu­roSky, Inc. Inventor(s): Cheng‑I Chuang, KooHy­oung Lee Tech­nol­o­gy Cat­e­go­ry: EEG Issue Date: Sep­tem­ber 18, 2012 Sharp­Brains’ Take: The ‘075 patent cou­ples an audio head­phone set sys­tem with EEG…

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