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Monthly e‑newsletter: Do you actually like that song or do you merely think you do?

November 30, 2017 by SharpBrains

Time for Sharp­Brains’ Novem­ber e‑newsletter, explor­ing the fron­tiers in applied brain sci­ence and start­ing this time with a fas­ci­nat­ing study and initiative.

New thinking

  • Neu­roin­for­mat­ics meets music: Do you actu­al­ly like that song or do you mere­ly think you do?
  • Sur­vey: Par­ents view Exer­cise as more effec­tive than Pre­scrip­tion Med­ica­tions to treat chil­dren with ADHD
  • Top Resources for Edu­ca­tors on Learn­ing and the Brain
  • Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy and arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence (AI) can enhance our lives if it pre­serves our 1) pri­va­cy, 2) iden­ti­ty, 3) agency and 4) equal­i­ty, researchers say

Emerging toolkit for brain health & enhancement:

  • The New York Times acknowl­edges that (as clear­ly doc­u­ment­ed for 10+ years) Exer­cise and Brain Train­ing are BOTH cru­cial for life­long brain fitness
  • The future (of Brain Health & Enhance­ment) is already here — it’s just not very even­ly distributed
  • Bill Gates announces $50 mil­lion invest­ment to fight Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Eth­i­cal issues raised around deep brain stim­u­la­tion (DBS) research

News about the 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (December 5–7th):

– Judg­ing Pan­el for the Brain­no­va­tions Pitch Contest
  • News: 12 Final­ists named to take part in the Brain­no­va­tions Pitch Contest
  • 14 new Speak­ers con­firmed at the 2017 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Summit
  • Check out the lat­est Sum­mit Agen­da and Meet over 50 Experts and Inno­va­tors shap­ing Brain Health & Enhancement

 

Have a great month of December…and see many of you at the vir­tu­al sum­mit next week!

With 210 par­tic­i­pants reg­is­tered so far–and many already intro­duc­ing each oth­er via our pri­vate LinkedIn group–we know it’s going to be fun and worthwhile 🙂

The Sharp­Brains Team

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: adhd, Brain-health, exercise, Neuroinformatics

Neuroinformatics meets music: Do you actually like that song or do you merely think you do?

November 28, 2017 by Dr Dimitrios Adamos

As a neu­roin­for­mat­ics researcher, my vision is to bridge con­sumers wear­ing mobile EEG devices with online music rec­om­men­da­tion ser­vices. Our research group is already work­ing in that direc­tion, decod­ing brain­waves while lis­ten­ing to music in order to pre­dict “Like” rat­ings and then sub­mit the feed­back to music stream­ing services.

As an exam­ple, this past Sep­tem­ber we were asked to con­duct a music-EEG exper­i­ment for the ‘Music Free­dom’ ser­vice TV pro­mo cam­paign of TELIA [Read more…] about Neu­roin­for­mat­ics meets music: Do you actu­al­ly like that song or do you mere­ly think you do?

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Beat, brainwaves, EEG devices, mobile EEG, music streaming, Neuroinformatics, Spotify, TELIA, Tidal

Next: Brain modelling platforms, such as Baycrest’s Virtual Brain, to accelerate brain health innovation

February 17, 2016 by SharpBrains

brain_modellingA Vir­tu­al Brain – The Ben­e­fits of Brain Mod­el­ling (Brain Blogger):

“Brain Blog­ger recent­ly dis­cov­ered that sci­en­tists are poised to deliv­er the first vir­tu­al sim­u­la­tion of the human brain from a tru­ly fas­ci­nat­ing talk by Dr. Randy McIn­tosh, Vicepres­i­dent of Research and Direc­tor of Baycrest’s Rot­man Research Insti­tute, pre­sent­ed at [Read more…] about Next: Brain mod­el­ling plat­forms, such as Baycrest’s Vir­tu­al Brain, to accel­er­ate brain health innovation

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Baycrest, behaviour, brain, brain modelling, Brain-health, cognitive, innovation, Neuroinformatics, virtual brain

The Digital Future of Mental Health

October 4, 2012 by SharpBrains

Fun futur­is­tic vision over at The Atlantic, titled The Extreme­ly Per­son­al Com­put­er: The Dig­i­tal Future of Men­tal Health:

“It’s 2018, and you’re not feel­ing your best. Yes­ter­day, on the phone with Com­cast, you for­got your social secu­ri­ty num­ber, and had to call your mom to get it…You fire up your PC and dig out your bio­mon­i­tor wrist strap. [Read more…] about The Dig­i­tal Future of Men­tal Health

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: biometrics, biomonitor, Brain-Fitness, clinical neuroscience, Comcast, digital health, EEG, HRV, Mental-Health, Neuroinformatics, neuroplasticity, psychiatry, Thomas Insel

Brain fitness meets HRV and EEG biometrics and neuroinformatics

September 27, 2012 by Yann Renard

As an active par­tic­i­pant in the Open­ViBE project (a soft­ware plat­form to design, test and use Brain-Com­put­er Inter­faces), in sci­en­tif­ic as well as tech­ni­cal capac­i­ties, I have long been focused on ways to process, ana­lyze and put brain sig­nals to prac­ti­cal use. When I start­ed read­ing on the sub­ject of brain fit­ness a few years ago, I rec­og­nized the poten­tial to enhance a vari­ety of brain train­ing approach­es, from med­i­ta­tion to cog­ni­tive train­ing, by deploy­ing [Read more…] about Brain fit­ness meets HRV and EEG bio­met­rics and neuroinformatics

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Peak Performance, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Adam Gazzaley, behavior, biofeedback, biometrics, brain health assessments, brain signals, Brain-Computer Interfaces, Brain-Fitness, Brain-Training, cognition, Cognitive-Training, data, EEG, electro-cardiography, electro-encephalography, emotional-regulation, Emotiv, Emotiv EPOC, heart-rate-variability, innovation, meditation, MyCalmBeat, Neurofeedback, Neuroinformatics, neuroplasticity, neuropsychological, NeuroSky, OpenViBE, Robert Bilder, Sandra Chapman, UCLA, UCSF

36-Hour Offer: Integrative Neuroscience, Personalized Medicine and the 2011 SharpBrains Summit

March 3, 2011 by Alvaro Fernandez

An impres­sive recent ref­er­ence book on the future of brain care is Inte­gra­tive Neu­ro­science and Per­son­al­ized Med­i­cine, edit­ed by Evian Gor­don and Stephen H. Koslow (Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty Press; $89.95).

Book descrip­tion: This book takes an in depth and hard look at the cur­rent sta­tus and future direc­tion of treat­ment pre­dic­tive mark­ers in Per­son­al­ized Med­i­cine for the brain from the per­spec­tives of the researchers on the cut­ting edge and those involved in health­care imple­men­ta­tion. The con­tents pro­vide a com­pre­hen­sive text suit­able as both a pithy intro­duc­tion to and a clear sum­ma­ry of the “sci­ence to solu­tions” con­tin­u­um in this devel­op­ing field of Per­son­al­ized Med­i­cine and Inte­gra­tive Neu­ro­science. The sci­ence includes both mea­sures of genes using whole genome approach­es and SNIPS as well as BRAIN­mark­ers of direct brain func­tion such as brain imag­ing, bio­phys­i­cal changes and objec­tive cog­ni­tive and behav­ioral mea­sure­ments. More infor­ma­tion below.

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36-Hour Offer

Dr. Evian Gor­don will speak at the upcom­ing 2011 Sharp­Brains Sum­mit: Retool­ing Brain Health for the 21st Cen­tu­ry (March 30th — April 1st) and his firm, Brain Resource, is among Sum­mit Spon­sors. Thanks to his sup­port, we are pleased to announce the fol­low­ing offer: TEN pro­fes­sion­als who reg­is­ter to attend the 2011 Sharp­Brains Sum­mit over the next 36 hours, from now until Fri­day March 4th, 7pm US Pacif­ic Time, will each receive a com­pli­men­ta­ry hard­copy of the book Inte­gra­tive Neu­ro­science and Per­son­al­ized Med­i­cine. If more than ten peo­ple reg­is­ter by then, we will select ten names at random.

We are also pleased to announce the addi­tion of 12 new Speak­ers and Mod­er­a­tors to the 2011 Sharp­Brains Sum­mit — the result­ing agen­da is turn­ing out to be noth­ing short of spec­tac­u­lar (in our, yes, a bit biased judgment):

  • Alexan­dra More­house, CMO, AAA North California
  • Dr. Evian Gor­don, CEO, Brain Resource
  • Kath­leen Herath, Asst Vice Pres­i­dent, Nation­wide Insurance
  • Dr. David Tal, Direc­tor, A.G.E. Mat­ters Clinic
  • Paula Psyl­lakis, Senior Pol­icy Advi­sor, Ontario Min­istry of Research and Innovation
  • Veroni­ka Litin­ski, Advi­sor, MaRS Life Sci­ences and Health Care
  • Dr. Joshua Stein­er­man, Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor, Albert Ein­stein Col­lege of Medicine
  • Dr. Jef­frey Kaye, Direc­tor, NIA — ORCATECH
  • Dr. John Rep­pas, Pol­icy Direc­tor, Neu­rotech­nol­ogy Indus­try Organization
  • Dr. Justin Mar­ley, Chair Men­tal Health Infor­mat­ics Group, UK Roy­al Col­lege of Psychiatrists
  • Dr. David Dar­by, Chief Med­ical Offi­cer, Cogstate
  • Dr. John Hart, Med­ical Sci­ence Direc­tor, Cen­ter for Brain Health at UT-Dallas

-> Learn More and Reg­is­ter to Par­tic­i­pate in the Sum­mit Here, and get a chance at get­ting a com­pli­men­ta­ry copy of the book Inte­gra­tive Neu­ro­science and Per­son­al­ized Med­i­cine!

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: ­Ontario Min­istry of Research and Innovation, A.G.E. Mat­ters Clinic, AAA, Albert Ein­stein Col­lege of Medicine, Alexan­dra More­house, behavioral measurements, brain, brain-function, Brain-Imaging, Brain-Resource, Center for Brain Health, cognitive, CogState, David Darby, David Tal, Evian Gor­don, healthcare, Integrative Neuroscience, Jef­frey Kaye, John Hart, Joshua Stein­er­man, Justin Marley, Kath­leen Herath, Men­tal Health Infor­mat­ics, Nation­wide Insurance, Neuroinformatics, NIA, NIMH, Orcatech, Paula Psyl­lakis, personalized-medicine, predictive markers, Stephen H. Koslow, UK Royal Col­lege of Psychiatrists, UT-Dallas, Veronika Litin­ski

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