Witnessing an explosion of consumer-facing neurotechnologies to (potentially) harness lifelong neuroplasticity

By Apoorv Mathur | January 30, 2017

— Last week I shared some key sci­en­tif­ic, tech­no­log­i­cal and invest­ment trends rev­o­lu­tion­iz­ing Brain Health, based on my par­tic­i­pa­tion at the 2016 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit, and promised a sec­ond arti­cle more focused on the tech­nol­o­gy side of things. Here it is :-) Just a few weeks after the Sharp­Brains Sum­mit I also attend­ed CES 2017. While I enjoyed the myr­i­ad emerging…

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Mastering the digital toolkit to harness lifelong neuroplasticity: Cognitive training, mindfulness apps, EEG and virtual/ augmented reality

By SharpBrains | December 14, 2016

Mas­ter the dig­i­tal toolk­it to har­ness life­long neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty from Sharp­Brains Four lead­ing pio­neers of applied neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty helped us nav­i­gate best prac­tices to har­ness most promis­ing non-inva­­sive neu­rotech­nolo­gies, such as cog­ni­tive train­ing, mind­ful­ness apps, EEG and virtual/ aug­ment­ed real­i­ty. Chair: Lin­da Raines, CEO of the Men­tal Health Asso­ci­a­tion of Mary­land Dr. Michael Merzenich, win­ner of the…

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Dr. Michael Merzenich, winner of the 2016 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience, to speak at the 2016 SharpBrains Virtual Summit

By SharpBrains | September 27, 2016

———- We are proud to share that Dr. Michael Merzenich, Pro­fes­sor Emer­i­tus at UCSF, co-devel­op­er of the first cochlear implants, pio­neer of neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty research, co-founder of Sci­en­tif­ic Learn­ing and Posit Sci­ence, and win­ner of the 2016 Kavli Prize in Neu­ro­science, will speak at the 2016 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: Rein­vent­ing Brain Health in the Dig­i­tal Age (Decem­ber…

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Three neuroscientists win $1 million Kavli Prize for discovering brain’s plasticity

By SharpBrains | June 3, 2016

——- Three neu­ro­sci­en­tists win $1m award for dis­cov­er­ing brain’s plas­tic­i­ty (STAT): “Three neu­ro­sci­en­tists whose research over­turned decades-old notions about how and whether the brain can change in response to expe­ri­ence have won a $1 mil­lion Kavli Prize in Neu­ro­science, the Nor­we­gian Acad­e­my of Sci­ence and Let­ters announced on Thursday.

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