Maximizing the mental peak performance of astronauts, leaders…and everybody else

By SharpBrains | November 29, 2014

Max­i­miz­ing the peak per­for­mance of astro­nauts, leaders…and every­one else from Sharp­Brains Enjoy this great ses­sion held at the 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit, fea­tur­ing: Dr. Susan Jew­ell, Pres­i­dent of the Inter­na­tional Space Med­i­cine Con­sor­tium Dr. Robert Bilder, Chief of Med­ical Psy­­chol­o­­gy-Neu­rop­sy­­chol­o­­gy at UCLA Semel Insti­tute for Neu­ro­science Dr. Bill Reich­man, Pres­i­dent of Bay­crest Chair: Rajiv Pant, Chief…

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190 Sharp Brains Issue a Call to Enhance Brain Health through Neuroplasticity, Big Data and Consumer Education

By SharpBrains | June 15, 2012

-– Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit brings togeth­er glob­al lead­ers and inno­va­tors to advance the emerg­ing fields of applied neu­ro­science and brain fit­ness The third annu­al vir­tu­al Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: Opti­miz­ing Health through Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty, Inno­va­tion and Data, held June 7–14th, con­clud­ed with a call to enhance brain health by har­ness­ing neu­ro­­plas­tic­i­­ty-based appli­ca­tions, big data plat­forms and consumer…

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Update: Harness Neuroplasticity with Enthusiasm, Exercise & Personalized Medicine

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 28, 2012

Time for Sharp­Brains’ Feb­ru­ary 2012 eNewslet­ter, fea­tur­ing in this occa­sion mul­ti­ple and com­ple­men­tary per­spec­tives on how to har­ness neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty: with enthu­si­asm, BOTH phys­i­cal AND cog­ni­tive exer­cise, and (once tools become bet­ter stan­dard­ized and wide­ly avail­able) brain-based per­son­al­ized med­i­cine. Fea­tured Per­spec­tives: To Har­ness Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty, Start with Enthu­si­asm, by Dr. Hele­na Popovic Q&A with Dr. Yaakov Stern on Brain Reserve,…

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Enhance Metacognition and Problem-Solving by Talking Out Loud to Yourself

By Judith C. Tingley, PhD | February 9, 2012

The MC at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Michigan’s reunion din­ner encour­aged audi­ence mem­bers to reveal the most sig­nif­i­cant take-away from their under­grad­u­ate nurs­ing edu­ca­tion. The great­est ben­e­fit was quick­ly clear to me — prob­lem-solv­ing think­ing. Mem­o­ry pro­duced a mind video: a short, dark-haired, nurs­ing instruc­tor lec­tur­ing a small group of first year stu­dents in an empty…

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Luria Congress on Modern Neuropsychology

By SharpBrains | February 1, 2012

Giv­en how influ­en­tial Alexan­der Luri­a’s work was and still is on many top­ics we dis­cuss often here at SharpBrains.com, let us high­light the upcom­ing Luria Congress/ Moscow Inter­na­tion­al Con­gress (yes, in Moscow) ded­i­cat­ed to the 110th anniver­sary of Alexan­der Romanovich Luria’s birth. 

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