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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Update: 25 Key References to Navigate the Brain Health and Neurotechnology Revolution

By SharpBrains | November 30, 2015

Time for Sharp­Brains’ Novem­ber e‑newsletter, fea­tur­ing 25 of the key ref­er­ence mate­ri­als that par­tic­i­pants at the 2015 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit found most intrigu­ing, in order of dis­cus­sion dur­ing the Sum­mit. Our deep­est grat­i­tude goes to Sum­mit Speak­ers, Spon­sors, and every­one who par­tic­i­pat­ed in our best con­fer­ence to date! Alvaro Fer­nan­dez: 10 neu­rotech­nolo­gies about to trans­form brain enhance­ment and brain…

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Time is over for “one size fits all” dementia treatments. Next: How to best integrate non-pharmacologic and pharmacologic approaches

By SharpBrains | March 10, 2015

. Time to ‘just say no’ to behav­ior-calm­ing drugs for Alzheimer patients? Experts say yes (Med­ical Xpress): “Doc­tors write mil­lions of pre­scrip­tions a year for drugs to calm the behav­ior of peo­ple with Alzheimer’s dis­ease and oth­er types of demen­tia. But non-drug approach­es actu­al­ly work bet­ter, and car­ry far few­er risks, experts con­clude in a…

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Q: What do people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, addiction, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and anxiety have in common? A: A brain with similar gray-matter loss

By SharpBrains | February 6, 2015

. Dif­fer­ent men­tal dis­or­ders cause same brain-mat­ter loss, study finds (press release): “A meta-ana­ly­­sis of 193 brain-imag­ing stud­ies shows sim­i­lar gray-mat­ter loss in the brains of peo­ple with diag­noses as dif­fer­ent as schiz­o­phre­nia, depres­sion and addiction…The find­ings call into ques­tion a long­stand­ing ten­den­cy to dis­tin­guish psy­chi­atric dis­or­ders chiefly by their symp­toms rather than their underlying…

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Co-Adaptive Learning: Adaptive Technology for the Aging

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 10, 2009 |

My apolo­gies for not hav­ing blogged in a few days. I land­ed back in San Fran­cis­co today after speak­ing and par­tic­i­pat­ing in a very stim­u­lat­ing event put togeth­er by the Ari­zona State Uni­ver­si­ty’s Adap­tive Neur­al Sys­tems Cen­ter with fund­ing from the Nation­al Sci­ence Foun­da­tion. The 2‑day sym­po­sium was titled Co-Adap­­tive Learn­ing: Adap­tive Tech­nol­o­gy for the…

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