Quick brain teaser to stretch (and retrain) your mind

By SharpBrains | October 18, 2019

___________ This is Ellen, a sin­gle and bright woman. When she was a stu­dent —in high school and in col­lege too— Ellen was deeply involved in envi­ron­men­tal issues, and also par­tic­i­pat­ed in social jus­tice protests. Now it’s 2019, and Ellen is 31-year-old. Ques­tion: Which of the fol­low­ing state­ments are more prob­a­ble regard­ing Ellen’s occu­pa­tion today,…

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Navigating the Brain/ Mind Innovation Landscape

By SharpBrains | August 5, 2019

? Nav­i­gat­ing the Brain/ Mind Inno­va­tion Land­scape & Book pre­sen­ta­tion El Cere­bro Que Cura (The Brain That Heals) from Sharp­Brains Hop­ing you enjoy this slid­edeck sup­port­ing a mar­ket and inno­va­tion overview pre­sent­ed and dis­cussed dur­ing the 2019 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: The Future of Brain Health (March 7–9th).  Full record­ings are avail­able for pur­chase here. 11am-Noon. Nav­i­gat­ing the Brain/…

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Technology and the Cognition Crisis

By Dr. Adam Gazzaley | July 10, 2018

___ “Our lives on this plan­et have improved in so many amaz­ing ways over the last cen­tu­ry. On aver­age, we are now health­i­er, more afflu­ent and lit­er­ate, less vio­lent and longer liv­ing. Despite these unprece­dent­ed pos­i­tive changes, clear signs exist that we are in the midst of an emerg­ing crisis–one that has not yet been…

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From Mental Health to Behavioral Health…and back?

By SharpBrains | February 15, 2018

___ Know Thy­self: Well-Being and Sub­jec­tive Expe­ri­ence (Cere­brum): “Ancient Greek philoso­phers were fond of the apho­rism, “know thy­self,” inscribed above the entrance of one of the Tem­ples of Apol­lo at Del­phi. One expres­sion of this tra­di­tion, vari­ably attrib­uted to Socrates and Pla­to, is that “the unex­am­ined life is not worth liv­ing.” Anoth­er, attrib­uted to Aristotle,…

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