Key take-aways from the 2015 SharpBrains Virtual Summit

By SharpBrains | December 16, 2015

. Take-aways from 2015 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Neu­rotech News): “In Novem­ber (17th-19th) Sharp­Brains held its Vir­tu­al Sum­mit about “Mon­i­tor­ing & Enhanc­ing Brain Health in the Per­va­sive Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy Era.” The Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit is, as you might guess, a vir­tu­al (online) conference…The vir­tu­al sum­mit had it’s own divi­sion of top­ics for group­ing the dif­fer­ent speak­ers (see…

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How to mea­sure and improve brain-based out­comes that mat­ter in health care

By SharpBrains | October 23, 2015

Please con­sid­er join­ing us at Sharp­Brains’ upcom­ing vir­tu­al con­fer­ence (Novem­ber 17–19th), which will include this fan­tas­tic ses­sion: Tues­day Novem­ber 17th, 10.00 — 11.30am. How to mea­sure and improve brain-based out­comes that mat­ter in health care. Pio­neers advanc­ing health research, pre­ven­tion and treat­ment will help us under­stand emerg­ing best prac­tices where tar­geted assess­ments and inter­ven­tions can transfer…

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Study: Brain imaging not accurate or sensitive enough (yet) to detect Alzheimer’s disease in primary care settings

By SharpBrains | September 2, 2015

Accu­ra­cy of demen­tia brain imag­ing must improve (Uni­ver­si­ty of East Anglia release): “A report pub­lished today in The Lancet Neu­rol­o­gy eval­u­ates for the first time how well dif­fer­ent types of brain imag­ing tests work to detect Alzheimer’s and pre­dict how the dis­ease will progress. The results show that the accu­ra­cy of brain imag­ing must be…

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Trend: Taking health (and brain health) care “beyond the pill”

By SharpBrains | February 23, 2015

. How Device Mak­ers Can Take Health­care “Beyond the Pill” (Med­ical Device and Diag­nos­tic Indus­try): “One thing is clear: Pharma’s com­mit­ment to “beyond the pill” has nev­er been so appar­ent. Each and every phar­ma com­pa­ny seems to have formed a divi­sion or a strate­gic team to explore new ser­vices around patient com­pli­ance, pop­u­la­tion health data…

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