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

By SharpBrains | July 13, 2016

Neu­ro­di­ver­si­ty: 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 

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Available: All 2013 SharpBrains Summit slide decks

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 9, 2013

Thanks to the gen­er­ous sup­port from our Sum­mit Spon­sors we are glad to share all slide decks from the 2013 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: How Can Neu­ro­­science-based Inno­va­tion Enhance Behav­ioral and Brain Health (Sep­tem­ber 19–20th). We hope you enjoy them! –> You can check out all slide decks HERE –> As an exam­ple, you can check out the…

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Update: Work as a Brain Fitness Program

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 16, 2008

Here you have the twice-a-month newslet­ter with our most pop­u­lar blog posts. Please remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive this Newslet­ter by email, sim­ply by sub­mit­ting your email at the top of this page. There is one type of “brain fit­ness pro­gram” which is not only free but also pays you back. You guessed it,…

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Education, Biogerontology, HR carnivals

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 22, 2008

We are host­ing here at Sharp­Brains the next edi­tions of sev­er­al great blog car­ni­vals. If you blog about these top­ics, please sub­mit your best recent posts using our Con­tact Us form: — August 27th: Car­ni­val of Edu­ca­tion. — Sep­tem­ber 9th: Car­ni­val of Biogeron­tol­ogy. — Sep­tem­ber 17th: Car­ni­val of HR. Enjoy the  weekend!

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Human Resources, Brain Science, Health Blogs

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 16, 2008

Some great new edi­tions of our favorite blog car­ni­vals: — Encephalon, For­thy-Third Edi­tion: the best of recent neu­ro­science and psy­chol­o­gy blog posts. — Grand Rounds Vol­ume 4, Num­ber 30: superb overview of the health & med­i­cine blo­gos­phere. — Car­ni­val of HR #31: great resources for Human Resources professionals.

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