Update: The latest research and noninvasive neurotechnologies for brain health and mental fitness

Time for a new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains’ e‑newsletter! 1. Food for (non­par­ti­san) Thought: Should heads of state and can­di­dates to high office pass a cognitive/ men­tal fit­ness test? 2. A school psy­chol­o­gist shares good tips to sup­port our kids and, yes, man­age our own stress. Three Ss to reduce the stress of “home­school­ing” our kids: Sim­pli­fy, Structure,…

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Kaiser Permanente offers Calm mental fitness app at no cost to millions of members

Med­i­ta­tion app Calm is now free for Kaiser Per­ma­nen­te’s mil­lions of mem­bers (CNBC): Kaiser Per­ma­nente is try­ing to give its 12.4 mil­lion mem­bers a lit­tle bit of calm. Start­ing Tues­day, the health-care provider is allow­ing patients to down­load the Calm med­i­ta­tion app for free as part of a way to help cus­tomers man­age anx­i­ety as they…

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Top 10 Reasons To Join the 2013 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (September 19–20th)

We’d like to bring your atten­tion to the upcom­ing event that is like­ly to become a land­mark event for any­one inter­est­ed in health and well­ness appli­ca­tions of brain sci­ence. Top 10 Rea­sons to Join the 2013 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Sep­tem­ber 19–20th): Watch Patrick Aebis­cher, Pres­i­dent of the Swiss Fed­eral Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­­gy-Lau­sanne (EPFL), present the…

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What clients are saying about SharpBrains’ new market report on digital brain health

We are proud that our recent mar­ket report is prov­ing to be a valu­able resource to a range of exec­u­tives and inno­va­tors. Here’s what clients are say­ing: “Many mar­ket reports pro­vide lit­tle val­ue for the mon­ey. This new mar­ket report by Sharp­Brains is the pre­cise oppo­site. Its wealth of data and analy­sis pro­vides very valu­able strategic…

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Working with Healthcare Stakeholders towards Brain-Based Personalized Medicine

(Edi­tor’s Note: this is Part 3 of the new 3‑part series writ­ten by Dr. Evian Gor­don draw­ing from his par­tic­i­pa­tion at the Per­son­al­ized Med­i­cine World Con­gress on Jan­u­ary, 23, 2012 at Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty.) Work­ing with Health Care Indus­try Stake­hold­ers: Clin­i­cians, Pharma/Biotech, Pay­ers, PBMs, Lawyers, Medicare, FDA Clin­i­cians seek clear val­i­dat­ed “rules of thumb” that can be…

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