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Michael-Merzenich

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

January 30, 2017 by Apoorv Mathur

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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 tech­nolo­gies –autonomous vehi­cles, robot­ics, drones, aug­ment­ed and vir­tu­al real­i­ty head­sets, voice acti­vat­ed every­thing– I was most­ly struck by a firm named Halo Neu­ro­science. They have a fas­ci­nat­ing wear­able prod­uct, Halo Sport, claim­ing to accel­er­ate gains in strength, explo­sive­ness, endurance, and mus­cle mem­o­ry, improv­ing the brain’s response to ath­let­ic train­ing. It uses tDCS (tran­scra­nial direct cur­rent stim­u­la­tion), essen­tial­ly prim­ing move­ment-relat­ed cir­cuits of the brain to become more recep­tive to stim­uli, help­ing the brain wire in the prac­tice for improved future response.

The cutting edge of applied neuroplasticity

Both con­fer­ences allowed me to see the cut­ting edge of [Read more…] about Wit­ness­ing an explo­sion of con­sumer-fac­ing neu­rotech­nolo­gies to (poten­tial­ly) har­ness life­long neuroplasticity

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Peak Performance, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Akili, applied neuroplasticity, AR, Arrowsmith Program, Arrowsmith School, artificial intelligence, Brain Monitoring, brain-functioning, Brain-Plasticity, BrainHQ, CC-ABHI, Claritas Mindsciences, Click Therapeutics, clinical, clinical neuropsychology, cogmed, Cogniciti, cognitive therapeutics, cognitive therapies, cognitive-assessments, cognitive-enhancement, Cognitive-Training, DBS, Educational Testing Service, EEG, Emotiv, ETS, Halo Neuroscience, Halo Sport, Headspace, IBM Watson, Institute of Coaching, Judson Brewer, Kavli Prize, Lifelong Neuroplasticity, Lumosity, meditation, mental-exercises, Michael-Merzenich, MindMaze, MyndYou, National-Institute-of-Mental-Health, Neurofeedback, neuroplasticity, Neuropsychology, neurostimulation, neurotechnologies, NIMH, Pear Therapeutics, Pearson, physiological, Posit-Science, RehaCom, SBT Group, sensorimotor, The Synapse System, TMS, UC-Berkeley, UCSF, VR, Watson Centre for Brain Health

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

September 27, 2016 by SharpBrains

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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 6–8th). You can check out the Pre­lim­i­nary Agen­da here.

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Kavli Prize, Michael-Merzenich, neuroplasticity, neuroscience, Posit-Science, Scientific-Learning, UCSF

Dr. Michael Merzenich: To harness Neuroplasticity for cognitive enhancement, we need to think “Fitness” more than “Games”

June 7, 2016 by SharpBrains

KavliPrize-Neuro(Edi­tor’s Note: In order to help read­ers famil­iar­ize them­selves with the work and think­ing of Dr. Michael Merzenich, one of the win­ners of the 2016 Kavli Prize in Neu­ro­science for ground­break­ing work on neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty, we are con­dens­ing and repub­lish­ing the com­pre­hen­sive con­ver­sa­tion that Dr. Merzenich and Alvaro Fer­nan­dez had in 2009, in prepa­ra­tion for the inau­gur­al Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit.)

Dr. Michael Merzenich, Emer­i­tus Pro­fes­sor at UCSF, is a lead­ing pio­neer in brain plas­tic­i­ty research. In the late 1980s, Dr. Merzenich was on the team that invent­ed the cochlear implant. In 1996, he was the found­ing CEO of Sci­en­tif­ic Learn­ing Cor­po­ra­tion, and in 2004 became co-founder and [Read more…] about Dr. Michael Merzenich: To har­ness Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty for cog­ni­tive enhance­ment, we need to think “Fit­ness” more than “Games”

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: AAA, adults, Allstate, Alzheimers, brain-assessments, Brain-Fitness, Brain-games, Brain-health, brain-trainers, Brain-Training, FDA, home health, Mental-Health, Michael-Merzenich, myelination, neurocognitive, neurodegenerative, neurological, neuroplasticity, neuropsych assessments, Posit-Science, psychiatric, schizophrenia, Scientific-Learning, technology, telemedicine, therapy, UCSF

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

June 3, 2016 by SharpBrains

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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. [Read more…] about Three neu­ro­sci­en­tists win $1 mil­lion Kavli Prize for dis­cov­er­ing brain’s plasticity

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: brain-function, Brain-Plasticity, brain-trainers, Brain-Training, Carla Shatz, cochlear implants, Cognitive-Training, Eve Marder, Kavli Prize, Michael-Merzenich, neuroplasticity, neuroscience

Gaming and Neuroscience: Opportunities and Challenges

October 4, 2011 by Aki Nikolaidis

A cou­ple weeks ago I attend­ed the Enter­tain­ment Soft­ware and Cog­ni­tive Neu­rother­a­peu­tics Con­fer­ence, ESCoNS, at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia San Fran­cis­co. The speak­ers’ talks were insight­ful, sur­pris­ing, and inspir­ing in many regards. The pur­pose of this meet­ing was to bring togeth­er great minds in a vari­ety of fields from neu­ro­science to game design and to come up with some ideas how to make game based cog­ni­tive train­ing a real­i­ty as an effec­tive ther­a­py for many of today’s most chal­leng­ing dis­or­ders and deficits. Many of the sci­en­tists also thought that game based ther­a­pies for cog­ni­tive deficits could be used as enhance­ment tools for healthy indi­vid­u­als as well. [Read more…] about Gam­ing and Neu­ro­science: Oppor­tu­ni­ties and Challenges

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: attention, BDNF expression, Brain-health, Brain-Training, Cognitive Neurotherapeutics, cognitive training games, cognitive-deficits, cognitive-enhancement, Cognitive-Training, cortical-thickness, developers, Entertainment Software, ESCoNS, FDA, game design, game developers, Games-for-Health, Gaming, Jim Blascovich, medical, Michael Kilgard, Michael-Merzenich, motivation, myelination, neuroimaging, neurological measurements, neuroplasticity, neuroscience, Neurotherapeutics, Serious-Games, therapeutic benefit, therapy, Torkel-Klingberg, treatment, Working-memory

Full Recordings Available Now: 2011 SharpBrains Summit

August 31, 2011 by Alvaro Fernandez

We are pleased to announce that full record­ings for all pre­sen­ta­tions deliv­ered dur­ing the 2011 Sharp­Brains Sum­mit: Retool­ing Brain Health for the 21st Cen­tu­ry (March 30 — April 1, 2011) are now avail­able both to Sum­mit Par­tic­i­pants and to non-Participants.

You can Learn More Here and Access 40+ Talks and 20+ hours of up-to-date infor­ma­tion and analy­sis of brain sci­ence, tech­nol­o­gy and inno­va­tion, deliv­ered by noth­ing short of a world-class faculty.

–> Reg­is­tered Sum­mit Par­tic­i­pants can access all Ses­sion Record­ings by click­ing on the ses­sion titles in the Agen­da page and using the same User­name and Pass­word they used to par­tic­i­pate in the Summit.

–> Did­n’t Reg­is­ter to Par­tic­i­pate in the 2011 Sharp­Brains Sum­mit but want to access all Ses­sion Record­ings (20+ hours, 40+ speak­ers) Now? You can secure your log-in here.

We hope the infor­ma­tion and analy­sis pro­vid­ed by these 40+ world-class speak­ers address­ing this 3‑day agen­da pro­vide excel­lent val­ue to you: [Read more…] about Full Record­ings Avail­able Now: 2011 Sharp­Brains Summit

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