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The dual challenge ahead of Facebook’s Typing-by-Brain project: 1) develop the neurotechnology, 2) develop the science

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Direc­tor of Typ­ing-by-Brain Project Dis­cuss­es How Face­book Will Get Inside Your Head (IEEE Spectrum):

“When Facebook’s Mark Chevil­let describes the company’s new “typ­ing by brain” ini­tia­tive, he has a way of keep­ing it from sound­ing total­ly crazy [Read more…] about The dual chal­lenge ahead of Facebook’s Typ­ing-by-Brain project: 1) devel­op the neu­rotech­nol­o­gy, 2) devel­op the science

Please help us spread the word about neuroplasticity & brain health innovation

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Hun­dreds of com­pa­nies around the globe–now includ­ing Elon Musk’s Neu­ralink and even Facebook–are research­ing and devel­op­ing new ways to help brain own­ers be smarter, sharp­er, and healthier.

What explains this flur­ry of activ­i­ty? Where may it be headed?

To help you under­stand what’s going on, let me high­light five key facts that emerged from the recent Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit:

Fact 1. There are 7.5 bil­lion human brains out there, and every­one needs help
Fact 2. Life­long neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty means all those brains can “sculpt” themselves
Fact 3. Mobile, sens­ing, wear­able tech­nolo­gies, cou­pled with AI, pro­vide a new plat­form to har­ness that neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty for good
Fact 4. Entre­pre­neur­ship and invest­ments are fuel­ing accel­er­at­ed growth
Fact 5. Pro­fes­sion­als are step­ping up to help edu­cate con­sumers and patients

 

“The future is already here — it’s just not very even­ly dis­trib­uted” — essay­ist William Gibson.

 

Well, then why don’t we take on that dis­tri­b­u­tion chal­lenge and appro­pri­ate­ly spread the knowl­edge and the tools 🙂

Please read the arti­cle 5 Facts You Need To Know To Under­stand, Nav­i­gate And Enjoy The Dig­i­tal Brain Health Rev­o­lu­tion in your favorite com­mu­ni­ty, and please share the arti­cle with your friends and colleagues!

 

Also, if you want to go much deep­er into these facts and what they mean for the future of brain health and brain enhance­ment, please Reg­is­ter soon to Access 40+ Hours of Ses­sion Record­ings from 100+ Brain Experts (offer expires on May 1st; 10%-off dis­count code: sharp2017)

Kind regards,

The Sharp­Brains Team

5 Facts You Need To Know To Understand, Navigate And Enjoy The Digital Brain Health Revolution

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Hun­dreds of com­pa­nies around the globe, now includ­ing Elon Musk’s Neu­ralink and even Face­book,  are research­ing and devel­op­ing new ways to help brain own­ers be smarter, sharp­er, and healthier.

What explains this flur­ry of activ­i­ty? Where may it be headed?

To help you under­stand what’s going on, let me high­light five key facts that emerged from the recent Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit.

 

Fact 1. There are 7.5 billion human brains out there, and everyone needs help

Con­sid­er all unmet needs derived from the tra­di­tion­al phar­ma-exclu­sive approach to brain health.

Learn­ing and cog­ni­tive dis­abil­i­ties in chil­dren are grow­ing sig­nif­i­cant­ly, from ADHD and OCD, to autism. The relat­ed emo­tion­al and eco­nom­ic bur­den is sub­stan­tial — yet, over 60–70% of those with treat­ment have poor out­comes, and many who need help don’t get any.

Glob­al­ly, around 350 mil­lion peo­ple suf­fer from depres­sion. Add to that sub­stance abuse, and we are talk­ing hun­dreds of mil­lions of peo­ple with­out prop­er care and very high relapse rates for the lucky ones get­ting help.

Con­cus­sions and brain impair­ments per­vade through mil­lions of vet­er­ans and high-con­tact sports prac­ti­tion­ers, yet diag­no­sis and treat­ments are elusive.

And let’s not for­get the per­fect­ly healthy. [Read more…] about 5 Facts You Need To Know To Under­stand, Nav­i­gate And Enjoy The Dig­i­tal Brain Health Revolution

Next: Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) meet brain scanning and human enhancement

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Face­book, Apple and the Com­ing Aug­ment­ed Real­i­ty Land Grab (Vari­ety):

“Two new reports sug­gest that two of Sil­i­con Valley’s biggest com­pa­nies are secret­ly work­ing on aug­ment­ed real­i­ty (AR) tech­nol­o­gy. It may take some time before Apple is going to reveal its efforts in the space, but Face­book may give us a glance at its AR research as ear­ly as next month [Read more…] about Next: Aug­ment­ed Real­i­ty (AR) and Vir­tu­al Real­i­ty (VR) meet brain scan­ning and human enhancement

New virtual reality platforms for brain health assessments and therapies: Oculus Rift, Morpheus

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OculusVir­tu­al Real­i­ty is Here. Can We Play With It? (The New York Times):

“…I can assure you that vir­tu­al real­i­ty works. Tech­nol­o­gy is no longer the lim­i­ta­tion. The lin­ger­ing ques­tion is what game design­ers, artists and film­mak­ers should do with it…Oculus VR sold [Read more…] about New vir­tu­al real­i­ty plat­forms for brain health assess­ments and ther­a­pies: Ocu­lus Rift, Morpheus

BrainArt Awards and Exhi­bi­tion opens (Facebook) polls

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The BrainArt Awards & Exhi­bi­tion  Gallery is now open for vot­ing (by Lik­ing select­ed works via Face­book but­ton). The Brain Art Awards is an inter­na­tional com­pe­ti­tion with ten media cat­e­gories, open to any­one aged 14 — 99. It offers a $5,000 cash prize to the major win­ner, and gar­ners a fas­ci­nat­ing inter­na­tional response to a spe­cific area of human expe­ri­ence. This year’s theme is ‘Life Plea­sures and the Brain.’

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