Emerging best practices to personalize brain health via new imaging methods and human/ artificial intelligence

By SharpBrains | July 13, 2017

Per­son­al­ize brain health and enhance­ment com­bin­ing new imag­ing meth­ods and human/ arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence from Sharp­Brains This pre­sen­ta­tion took place at the 2016 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Decem­ber 6–8th, 2016). –> Learn more about the upcom­ing 2017 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: Brain Enhance­ment in the Dig­i­tal Age (Decem­ber 5–7th, 2017).

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Tough brain teasers, with answers, courtesy of NSA employees

By SharpBrains | August 29, 2016

—– Accord­ing to NSA’s Puz­zle Peri­od­i­cal, “Intel­li­gence. It’s the abil­i­ty to think abstract­ly. Chal­lenge the unknown. Solve the impos­si­ble. NSA employ­ees work on some of the world’s most demand­ing and exhil­a­rat­ing high-tech engi­neer­ing chal­lenges. Apply­ing com­plex algo­rithms and express­ing dif­fi­cult cryp­to­graph­ic prob­lems in terms of math­e­mat­ics is part of the work NSA employ­ees do every day.”…

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10 Brain Transformers: A Poem

By Anu Acharya | November 25, 2015

. As we enter an era of a trans­form­ing cere­brals there will soon be “Mind­ful” wear­ables to con­cen­trate, med­i­tate and self reg­u­late Did I just see you drop your jaw­bone at the gate? Charge your­self to a calm­ing or ener­giz­ing state Enhance mem­o­ry and you are now feel­ing great Your life may soon be in a dif­fer­ent motion…

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Learning a second language, at any age, leads to better cognitive abilities

By SharpBrains | June 2, 2014

Learn­ing sec­ond lan­guage ‘slows brain age­ing’ (BBC): “Learn­ing a sec­ond lan­guage can have a pos­i­tive effect on the brain, even if it is tak­en up in adult­hood, a Uni­ver­si­ty of Edin­burgh study suggests…Using data from intel­li­gence tests on 262 Edin­burgh-born indi­vid­u­als at the age of 11, the study looked at how their cog­ni­tive abil­i­ties had…

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