Fact: Lifelong neuroplasticity means our 7.5 billion brains can “sculpt” themselves

By SharpBrains | April 20, 2017

— Much ongo­ing brain health and brain enhance­ment inno­va­tion is enabled by the core fact—called neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty–that the human brain con­tin­u­al­ly changes itself through expe­ri­ence. Neuroplasticity–or brain plas­tic­i­ty– refers to the brain’s abil­i­ty to rewire itself based on expe­ri­ence by gen­er­at­ing new neu­rons and by form­ing new con­nec­tions between neu­rons, among oth­er fac­tors. It was believed for…

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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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