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Outsmarting Smart Technology to Reclaim our Health and Focus

July 30, 2019 by SharpBrains

Out­smart­ing Smart Tech­nol­o­gy to Reclaim our Health and Focus from Sharp­Brains

We hope you enjoy this slid­edeck sup­port­ing a fas­ci­nat­ing talk at the 2019 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: The Future of Brain Health (March 7–9th).  Full record­ings are avail­able for pur­chase here.

8–8.30am. Out­smart­ing Smart Tech­nol­o­gy to Reclaim our Health and Focus

  • Dr. Mar­garet Mor­ris, clin­i­cal psy­chol­o­gist, author of Left to Our Own Devices and for­mer senior researcher at Intel

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: devices, Intel, reclaim focus, reclaim health, smart-devices, smartphones

Let’s discuss how to Outsmart Smart Technology to Reclaim our Health and Focus

April 23, 2019 by Alvaro Fernandez

I’m excit­ed to share that the upcom­ing 2019 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit will fea­ture, on May 8th, a fas­ci­nat­ing pre­sen­ta­tion and dis­cus­sion with Dr. Mar­garet Mor­ris, who spent 13 years as a researcher at Intel and recent­ly wrote a very time­ly book — Left to Our Own Devices: Out­smart­ing Smart Tech­nol­o­gy to Reclaim Our Rela­tion­ships, Health, and Focus (MIT Press, 2018).

Please learn more about the fan­tas­tic Sum­mit Agen­da and con­sid­er join­ing us!

To bet­ter under­stand Dr. Mor­ris’ work and insights you can read this great book review over at Psy­chi­atric Times:

Mor­ris is a skill­ful sto­ry­teller and takes that chal­lenge to task. Across eight easy-to-read chap­ters, she illus­trates how peo­ple, most like­ly younger users, “hack” tech­nolo­gies to fos­ter con­nec­tion, mind­ful­ness, and well-being. The chap­ters are cen­tered around a col­lec­tion of per­son­al nar­ra­tives from peo­ple who per­son­al­ized their dig­i­tal devices and expe­ri­ence pos­i­tive results. Mor­ris records these sto­ries with a gen­tle, engag­ing, and upbeat tone that requires no for­mal back­ground in either men­tal health or tech­nol­o­gy … This book is a good read for today’s dig­i­tal health ini­tia­tives and for clin­i­cians hop­ing to keep up to date in cur­rent trends in men­tal health tech­nol­o­gy. It reminds us that putting a device in a patient’s hands will often lead to out­comes that we could nev­er have imag­ined. It also pokes holes in the once reign­ing view that robot­ics and chat­bots are dehu­man­iz­ing and anti­so­cial. If any­thing, the nar­ra­tives sug­gest that tech­nol­o­gy can help patients mon­i­tor their emo­tion­al states and improve shar­ing and con­nec­tions. The book under­scores how use­ful it is to study how patients use apps in real-world set­tings and to learn from their lived experiences.

 

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: chatbot, devices, digital health, focus, health, Intel, Margaret Morris, mental health, mindfulness, outsmart, Psychiatric Times, smart, well-being

Mind-Controlled Videogames Become Reality

May 29, 2012 by SharpBrains

Mind-Con­trolled Videogames Become Real­i­ty (The Wall Street Journal):

- Pic­ture this: You put on a head­set and relax your mind. Soon you begin con­trol­ling an object with your thoughts.

- Among the offer­ings avail­able in the com­pa­ny’s app store are desk­top games like “Mind­Hunter,” [Read more…] about Mind-Con­trolled Videogames Become Reality

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: HocusFocus, Intel, meditation, Mind Labyrinth, MindHunter, Neurofeedback, NeuroSky, relaxation, videogames

2011 SharpBrains Summit Meeting Report: Retooling Brain Health for the 21st Century

February 16, 2012 by Alvaro Fernandez

After months of hard work by six par­tic­i­pants @ 2011 Sharp­Brains Sum­mit, we are hon­ored to pub­lish this Meet­ing Report to help gen­er­ate a broad­er con­ver­sa­tion on what we believe is one of the main oppor­tu­ni­ties and chal­lenges of our times: How to Retool Brain Health for the 21st Cen­tu­ry. This Meet­ing Report has been pre­pared by: Alvaro Fer­nan­dez (Sharp­Brains),  Luc P. Beau­doin (Simon Fras­er Uni­ver­si­ty), Muki Hansteen-Izo­ra (Intel Cor­po­ra­tion), Mar­garet E. Mor­ris  (Intel Cor­po­ra­tion), Joshua R. Stein­er­man (ProG­evi­ty Neu­ro­science), Peter J. White­house (Case West­ern Reserve Uni­ver­si­ty), and is ful­ly acces­si­ble Here.

You will find many valu­able rec­om­men­da­tions, such as “repeat­ed, fre­quent, assess­ment (of brain func­tion) over time (i.e., mon­i­tor­ing) with the use of con­sumer-fac­ing tech­nolo­gies is prefer­able to a sin­gle assess­ment”, and deep insights such as “But it was report­ed (that brain train­ing can work) to be pos­si­ble when basic “con­di­tions for trans­fer” are met, such as prop­er iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of deficit in tar­get pop­u­la­tion and suf­fi­cient train­ing “dose” Sev­eral speak­ers con­fessed to be “shocked” by the strength of the neg­a­tive claims made by the “BBC brain train­ing” Nature paper in spite of the “home­o­pathic dos­ing” of the inter­ven­tion.”  [Read more…] about 2011 Sharp­Brains Sum­mit Meet­ing Report: Retool­ing Brain Health for the 21st Century

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Brain-health, cog­ni­tive reserve, cognitive-health, emotional-health, innovation, Intel, neu­rotech­nol­ogy, neuroplasticity

The Business and Ethics of the Brain Fitness Boom — Part 3: The Real Need

January 9, 2012 by Alvaro Fernandez

Engag­ing peo­ple where they are in the life-course

Eighty per­cent of the 38,000 adults over age 50 who were respon­ders in the 2010 AARP Mem­ber Opin­ion Sur­vey indi­cat­ed “stay­ing men­tal­ly sharp” was their top ranked inter­est and con­cern (Dinger, 2010). What exact­ly does this phrase mean? And what role can tech­nol­o­gy play in “stay­ing men­tal­ly sharp”? Intel CEO Paul Otelli­ni has said, “You have to start by think­ing about what peo­ple want to do… and work back­ward.” [Read more…] about The Busi­ness and Ethics of the Brain Fit­ness Boom — Part 3: The Real Need

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Filed Under: Attention & ADD/ADHD, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: AARP, Alzheimers-disease, anti-aging, baby-boomers, brain-age, Brain-Fitness, Brain-games, Brain-health, Brain-Training, business, cognitive engagement, cognitive-health, cognitive-science, Cognitive-Training, emotion, emotional-health, ethics, innovation, Intel, life long learning, mental capital, mental well being, mental-disorder, social integration, social-skills, stress-management

Last 33 Hours to Register/ US Asst. Secretary of Adult Education to Open 2011 SharpBrains Summit

March 28, 2011 by Alvaro Fernandez

Reg­is­tra­tion to par­tic­i­pate in 2011 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit clos­es tomor­row Tues­day, March 29th, at 1pm US Pacif­ic Time/ 4pm US East­ern Time. If you are plan­ning to attend, please Reg­is­ter Now.

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We are hon­ored to announce that Dr. Bren­da Dann-Messier, US Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion’s Assis­tant Sec­re­tary for Voca­tional and Adult Edu­ca­tion, will open 2011 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit on Wednes­day, March 30th, shar­ing her Wel­come Remarks with 220+ reg­is­tered participants.

Bren­da Dann-Messier was nom­i­nated by Pres­i­dent Oba­ma as assis­tant sec­re­tary for voca­tional and adult edu­ca­tion on July 14, 2009. On Oct. 5, 2009 she was con­firmed by the U.S. Sen­ate and began her offi­cial duties on Oct. 13, 2009. More infor­ma­tion on Dr. Dann-Messier’s bio Here.

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Sum­mit Agen­da: 80% of the 38,000 adults over 50 sur­veyed in the 2010 AARP Mem­ber Opin­ion Sur­vey indi­cated “Stay­ing Men­tally Sharp” as their top ranked inter­est and con­cern. This con­sumer-fueled inter­est, com­bined with grow­ing research on life­long neu­ro­plas­tic­ity and the cog­ni­tive reserve and with a grow­ing mar­ket­place of “brain fit­ness” prod­ucts and ser­vices, con­sti­tutes a call to action to expand the brain health toolk­it to meet grow­ing needs across the lifes­pan. Intel CEO Paul Otelli­ni is quot­ed as say­ing, “You have to start by think­ing about what peo­ple want to do…and work back­ward,” and the 2011 Sharp­Brains Sum­mit: Retool­ing Brain Health for the 21st Cen­tury will do so by show­cas­ing the lat­est trends tak­ing place among con­sumers and pro­fes­sion­als, in indus­try, research, tech­nol­ogy, and care, to iden­tify crit­i­cal oppor­tu­ni­ties and chal­lenges to devel­op a valu­able inno­va­tion ecosys­tem which may exceed $2B world­wide in 2015. 

To Learn More About Final Agen­da and Speak­er Ros­ter, click HERE. Please note all times in the agen­da indi­cate US Pacif­ic Time.

You can Learn More and Reg­is­ter HERE, and get a 15% dis­count by enter­ing dis­count code: sharp2011

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: #svs11, 21st century, AARP, Brain-Fitness, Brain-health, cognitive-reserve, Intel, Lifelong Neuroplasticity, mentally sharp, neuroplasticity, SharpBrains Summit, stay-sharp, survey, Twitter, virtual conference, virtual event

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