May e‑newsletter: MIT Solve launches Brain Health Challenge, asking “How can every person improve their brain health and mental resilience?”

By SharpBrains | May 25, 2017

—– Time for Sharp­Brains’ May e‑newsletter, high­light­ing what’s new in brain health and men­tal per­for­mance, and fea­tur­ing a very rel­e­vant MIT ini­tia­tive and a thought-pro­­vok­ing study on the “Cog­ni­tive Divide.” New think­ing MIT Solve launch­es Brain Health Chal­lenge: How can every per­son improve their brain health and men­tal resilience? Men­tal Health Inno­va­tion and Dr. Tom Insel:…

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Update: New tools, research and thinking to promote Brain Health in the Digital Age

By SharpBrains | September 23, 2016

———- The Times They Are a‑Changin. In a recent sur­vey, 91% of those polled said that “Doc­tors should mon­i­tor cog­ni­tive health sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly, espe­cial­ly when pre­scrib­ing new medica­ments.” This is impor­tant news, as any­one who has expe­ri­enced neg­a­tive side-effects, cog­ni­tive or oth­er­wise, knows. We need to upgrade our brain health sys­tem to reflect the real­i­ties, chal­lenges and…

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Keeping the Brain in Mind: IBM and MIT partner to upgrade cognitive computing

By SharpBrains | September 20, 2016

———- IBM and MIT team on cog­ni­tive com­put­ing, machine vision, arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence for health­care “IBM Research and the Depart­ment of Brain and Cog­ni­tive Sci­ences at the Mass­a­chu­setts Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy have joined forces to fur­ther devel­op the sci­en­tif­ic field of machine vision – a core aspect of arti­fi­cial intelligence

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July 14th @ MIT: Discussion about Neurotechnology and Depression

By SharpBrains | July 6, 2016

—– Heads-up about an inter­est­ing event in Boston on July 14th. Neu­roso­lu­tions 2016: Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy and Depres­sion Descrip­tion: Join us for a pan­el dis­cus­sion about Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy and Depres­sion, the first in a new series about apply­ing cut­t­ing-edge neu­rotech­nol­o­gy to press­ing soci­etal prob­lems, orga­nized by the MIT Cen­ter for Neu­ro­bi­o­log­i­cal Engi­neer­ing and

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Non-invasive brain stimulation meets nanotechnology

By SharpBrains | March 19, 2015

. MIT Researchers Devel­op Wire­less, Non­in­va­sive Deep Brain Stim­u­la­tion Approach (Med Device online): “Sci­en­tists have intro­duced a nov­el method of admin­is­ter­ing brain stim­u­la­tion that requires no implants or exter­nal con­nec­tions. By inject­ing mag­net­ic nanopar­ti­cles into the brain, researchers have found that they can manip­u­late neu­rons by apply­ing exter­nal mag­net­ic fields

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