Posts Tagged ‘human-brain’
Free webinar next Tuesday, May 19th, on neurotech and wearables for brain health
Heads-up about an online event next week that may well interest some of you. What: Alvaro Fernandez and Ricardo Gil da Costa will give an outlook on the brain devices industry and hardware technologies, with a deep look into this kind of wearables and the capabilities that human brain could achieve. When: Tuesday, May 19th, 2020.…
Read MoreExploring the human brain and how it responds to stress (1/3)
__ Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere. — Erma Bombeck The brain is the control center for all of our thoughts, actions, attitudes, and emotions. It’s the pilothouse on the riverboat of our lives. It’s Mission Control for all of our flights into space…
Read MoreFast Forward to 2040: How to prepare for the new era in brain enhancement that will change the way we think, work, and heal
Decades from now when our augmented brains have enhanced our cognitive function and transformed nearly every aspect of our lives, many of us will look back and wonder why we didn’t do more to prepare for these inevitable changes. Government leaders may grapple with the runaway effects of AI and brain enhancement on geopolitics. Companies…
Read MoreA conversation with Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg on Creativity, Neuroscience, and Technological Innovation
Dear Elkhonon, a pleasure to have you with us. Let’s get out the gate by discussing how are new ideas born — for example, how exactly did you first think about writing your new book, Creativity: The Human Brain in the Age of Innovation? Originally, I set out to write a book about how the…
Read MoreWhat a brain, what a life: Marian Diamond, neuroplasticity pioneer, dies at 90
___ Marian Diamond, neuroscientist who gave new meaning to ‘use it or lose it,’ dies at 90 (The Washington Post): “Marian Diamond, a pathbreaking neuroscientist whose research — including a study of Albert Einstein’s preserved brain — showed that the body’s three-pound seat of consciousness was a dynamic structure of beautiful complexity, capable of development even…
Read MoreFor invasive cognitive enhancement to work, firms will need to validate both the “neuro” and the “tech”
— A Hardware Update for the Human Brain (The Wall Street Journal): “The field that gave Emily her life back is known as neurotechnology, or simply neurotech—a marriage of neurology, neuroscience, neurosurgery and the kind of hardware that goes into smartphones. Today, most neurotech companies are focused on medical applications, which
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