Rethinking and Retooling Brain Health and Mental Health

By SharpBrains | July 12, 2019

Rethink­ing and Retool­ing Brain Health and Men­tal Health from Sharp­Brains We hope you enjoy this slid­edeck sup­port­ing two ses­sions held at the 2019 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: The Future of Brain Health (March 7–9th).  Full record­ings are avail­able for pur­chase here. 8–8.45am. Rethink­ing and Retool­ing Brain Health and Men­tal Health  Dr. Tom Insel, Co-founder and President…

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Brainy Innovation Tips from Edward Kliphuis, Investment Director with Merck Ventures

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 1, 2017

Ques­tion: Edward, please share 1–2 major brain health needs you observe right now whose solu­tion demands a cre­ative and sig­nif­i­cant tech-enabled inno­va­tion. Answer: We need to tar­get depres­sion, stress and fatigue in a quan­tifi­able man­ner (ie. no well­­ness-like claims, but real data sup­port­ing an improve­ment in the afore­men­tioned indi­ca­tions). Treat­ments and ear­ly detec­tion too. Also, ways…

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

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 12, 2017

— 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…

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Survey of key scientific, technological and investment trends revolutionizing Brain Health in our Digital Age

By Apoorv Mathur | January 23, 2017

—– Last year I got very inter­est­ed in the func­tion­ing of the human brain and the sci­ence behind mind­ful­ness and learn­ing [1], so was quite excit­ed  to attend the Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit [2] in Decem­ber, indulging in the lat­est trends in applied neu­ro­science and dig­i­tal inno­va­tion. The Sum­mit focused on the theme of rein­vent­ing brain health in the digital…

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Taking cognitive/ emotional assessments and therapies to scale

By SharpBrains | December 19, 2016

Tak­ing cognitive/ emo­tion­al assess­ments and ther­a­pies to scale von Sharp­Brains Two dig­i­tal health entrepreneurs–who have col­lec­tive­ly raised over $50 mil­lion in ven­ture cap­i­tal in the last 18 months– and an investor dis­cuss their respec­tive visions and approach­es to rev­o­lu­tion­ize brain and men­tal health in areas such as ADHD, sub­stance abuse, and gen­er­al brain fit­ness. Chair:…

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