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How to promote brain health at scale: Examples in the workplace, K12 education and consumer tech

July 25, 2019 by SharpBrains

How to pro­mote brain health at scale: Exam­ples in the work­place, K12 edu­ca­tion and con­sumer tech from Sharp­Brains

Hop­ing you enjoy this slid­edeck sup­port­ing an impor­tant dis­cus­sion dur­ing the 2019 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: The Future of Brain Health (March 7–9th).  Full record­ings are avail­able for pur­chase here.

3pm‑4.30pm. How to pro­mote brain health at scale: Exam­ples in the work­place, K12 edu­ca­tion and con­sumer tech 

  • Louis Gagnon, CEO of Total Brain
  • Dr. Gre­go­ry Rose, Direc­tor of the Cen­ter for Inte­grat­ed Research in Cog­ni­tive and Neur­al Sci­ences at SIU Med
  • Ariel Garten, Founder and Chief Evan­ge­lism Offi­cer of Inter­aX­on
  • Chaired by: Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, CEO and Edi­tor-in-Chief at Sharp­Brains

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: brain health, consumer tech, Interaxon, K12-education, promote brain health, scale, SIU Med, Total Brain, workplace

10+ pioneers confirmed to Speak @ 2019 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (May 7–9th)

February 19, 2019 by SharpBrains

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We are proud to announce the first wave of con­firmed Speak­ers to share their inno­v­a­tive work and insights at the 2019 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: The Future of Brain Health, to be held May 7–9th, 2019:

Dr. Tom Insel, Co-founder and Pres­i­dent of Mind­strong Health
Dr. Ainslie Hatch, Direc­tor of Dig­i­tal Ther­a­peu­tics at Otsu­ka Pharmaceutical
David Klein, CEO of Click Ther­a­peu­tics
Char­lie Hartwell, Oper­at­ing Part­ner at The Bridge Builders Collaborative
Louis Gagnon, CEO of Total Brain
Dr. Anna Wexler, sci­ence writer and PI of the Wexler Lab at UPenn
Dr. Eddie Mar­tuc­ci, Founder and CEO of Akili Inter­ac­tive Labs
Ana Maiques, CEO of Neu­ro­electrics
Jan Samzelius, Founder and CEO of Neu­raMetrix
Dr. Peter White­house, Pro­fes­sor of Neu­rol­o­gy at Case West­ern Reserve University
Kito Toset­ti, CEO of CTF MEG International
Ariel Garten, Founder and Chief Evan­ge­lism Offi­cer of Inter­aX­on
Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, CEO and Edi­tor-in-Chief of Sharp­Brains

We can’t wait to discuss and help shape the Future of Brain Health!

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Imag­ine your smart­phone can detect ear­ly signs of anx­i­ety, depres­sion or Parkinson’s Dis­ease — would you like to know? Who else should know … and not know?

Imag­ine a videogame cleared by the FDA to treat ADHD or sub­stance abuse — how will doc­tors pre­scribe it, patients access it, and insur­ers pay for it?

Imag­ine being respon­si­ble for the health & well­ness of your orga­ni­za­tion — how will you nav­i­gate the grow­ing toolk­it of evi­dence-based inter­ven­tions such as exercise/ meditation/ sleep apps/ cog­ni­tive therapies/ biofeedback/ tDCS?

Imag­ine invest­ing $100 mil­lion to help accel­er­ate brain research and appli­ca­tions — how would you ensure that respon­si­ble devel­op­ment meets wise adop­tion?

Imag­ine a free annu­al brain check-up — who should take it, and how could it help prevent/ delay/ treat cog­ni­tive decline and Alzheimer’s Disease?

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Akili Interactive Labs, Bridge Builders Collaborative, Case-Western-Reserve-University, Click Therapeutics, CTF MEG International, Interaxon, Mindstrong Health, NeuraMetrix, Neuroelectrics, Otsuka Pharmaceutical, sharpbrains, Total Brain, Wexler Lab

Lifestyle and neurotechnology over genetics

May 31, 2018 by SharpBrains

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Dear col­league,

It’s remark­able how quick­ly things are chang­ing, final­ly, in brain health and men­tal health — see for exam­ple what’s new with Inter­ax­on, Akili, Neu­raMetrix, Apple, Calm, Halo Neu­ro­science, Mind­strong Health, Novar­tis, Pear Ther­a­peu­tics, and life­long neu­ro­ge­n­e­sis, all in the last 6 months!

Please enjoy the May edi­tion of Sharp­Brains eNewslet­ter below, and con­sid­er join­ing the Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit this Decem­ber to dis­cuss the lat­est and help shape the next 🙂

New research:

  • Cog­ni­tive train­ing, diet, exer­cise, and vas­cu­lar man­age­ment seen to improve cog­ni­tion even in peo­ple with genet­ic pre­dis­po­si­tion for demen­tia (APOE e4)
  • Brain imag­ing show that patients with Alzheimer’s dis­ease can still remem­ber and enjoy their favorite songs
  • Phys­i­cal exer­cise doesn’t slow down demen­tia once it appears, study shows

New tools:

  • Ini­tial study finds promise and lim­i­ta­tions in using vir­tu­al real­i­ty (VR) to treat ADHD
  • tDCS com­ing to an Equinox gym near you: Good, Bad or Depends?
  • Could tech­nol­o­gy help cure depres­sion among old­er adults? (Short answer: Yes)

New thinking:

  • Six tips for social-emo­tion­al learn­ing (SEL) to trans­fer into real-world skills
  • Large study to assess impact on ear­ly brain devel­op­ment of finan­cial assis­tance to low-income mothers
  • New book high­lights con­tin­ued brain devel­op­ment through­out ado­les­cence, even into our 20s
  • Pre­sen­ta­tion on Neu­ro­science, Edu­ca­tion and Life­long Learn­ing (in Spanish)

 

Have a great month of June,

 

The Sharp­Brains Team

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Akili, Apple, Brain-health, Brain-Imaging, Calm, Cognitive-Training, dementia, diet, exercise, Genetics, Halo Neuroscience, Interaxon, lifestyle, Mindstrong Health, NeuraMetrix, neuro, Neurogenesis, neurotech, Neurotechnology, Novartis, Pear Therapeutics, tDCS, vascular management, virtual-reality

Dr. Tom Insel and 12 other world-class brain experts confirmed to Speak @ 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (December 5–7th, 2017)

September 6, 2017 by SharpBrains

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We are proud to share what’s already shap­ing up to be a quite spec­tac­u­lar and unique Speak­ing Ros­ter at the 2017 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit, start­ing with Thomas R. lnsel, MD, a psy­chi­a­trist, neu­ro­sci­en­tist, and cur­rent­ly a co-founder and Pres­i­dent of Mind­strong Health. From 2002–2015, Dr. Insel served as Direc­tor of the Nation­al Insti­tute of Men­tal Health (NIMH), [Read more…] about Dr. Tom Insel and 12 oth­er world-class brain experts con­firmed to Speak @ 2017 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Decem­ber 5–7th, 2017)

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: AARP, Akili Interactive Labs, Barcelona Brain Health Initiative, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Digital Cognition Technologies, Global Council on Brain Health, Interaxon, Mindstrong Health, Neuroethics, NIMH, Sapien Labs, sharpbrains, Telefónica, Telefónica Innovation, UBC

5 Facts You Need To Know To Understand, Navigate And Enjoy The Digital Brain Health Revolution

April 12, 2017 by Alvaro Fernandez

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Hun­dreds of com­pa­nies around the globe, now includ­ing Elon Musk’s Neu­ralink and even Face­book,  are research­ing and devel­op­ing new ways to help brain own­ers be smarter, sharp­er, and healthier.

What explains this flur­ry of activ­i­ty? Where may it be headed?

To help you under­stand what’s going on, let me high­light five key facts that emerged from the recent Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit.

 

Fact 1. There are 7.5 billion human brains out there, and everyone needs help

Con­sid­er all unmet needs derived from the tra­di­tion­al phar­ma-exclu­sive approach to brain health.

Learn­ing and cog­ni­tive dis­abil­i­ties in chil­dren are grow­ing sig­nif­i­cant­ly, from ADHD and OCD, to autism. The relat­ed emo­tion­al and eco­nom­ic bur­den is sub­stan­tial — yet, over 60–70% of those with treat­ment have poor out­comes, and many who need help don’t get any.

Glob­al­ly, around 350 mil­lion peo­ple suf­fer from depres­sion. Add to that sub­stance abuse, and we are talk­ing hun­dreds of mil­lions of peo­ple with­out prop­er care and very high relapse rates for the lucky ones get­ting help.

Con­cus­sions and brain impair­ments per­vade through mil­lions of vet­er­ans and high-con­tact sports prac­ti­tion­ers, yet diag­no­sis and treat­ments are elusive.

And let’s not for­get the per­fect­ly healthy. [Read more…] about 5 Facts You Need To Know To Under­stand, Nav­i­gate And Enjoy The Dig­i­tal Brain Health Revolution

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Akili, Baycrest, Brain-health, BrainHQ, Claritas Mindsciences, Click Therapeutics, cogmed, Cogniciti, cognifit, digital health, Educational Testing Service, Elon Musk, Facebook, Headspace, IBM Watson, Interaxon, Jazz Ventures, Lumosity, Merck, Merck Ventures, MindMaze, Muse, MyndYou, Neuralink, neuroplasticity, Neuropsychology, neurotech­nolo­gies, neurotech­nolo­gy, NIMH, Pear Therapeutics, Pearson, RehaCom, SBT Group, sharpbrains, UT-Dallas, World-Economic-Forum

Four reasons the future of brain health is digital, pervasive and bright

February 15, 2017 by Alvaro Fernandez

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Hun­dreds of com­pa­nies and sci­ence labs around the globe are research­ing the inner work­ings of the human brain and mind, and devel­op­ing new ways to help brain own­ers be smarter, sharp­er, and health­i­er for longer.

What explains this flur­ry of activ­i­ty? [Read more…] about Four rea­sons the future of brain health is dig­i­tal, per­va­sive and bright

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Akili, Baycrest, Brain-health, BrainHQ, Claritas Mindsciences, Click Therapeutics, cogmed, Cogniciti, cognifit, digital health, Educational Testing Service, Headspace, IBM Watson, Interaxon, Jazz Ventures, Lumosity, Merck, Merck Ventures, MindMaze, Muse, MyndYou, neuroplasticity, Neuropsychology, neurotech­nolo­gies, neurotech­nolo­gy, NIMH, Pear Therapeutics, Pearson, RehaCom, SBT Group, sharpbrains, UT-Dallas, World-Economic-Forum

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