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Taking your brain vitals: Stories from a techno-optimist inventing the future of human performance

October 11, 2022 by Dr. Cori Lathan

Dr. Cori Lath­an, author of Invent­ing the Future: Sto­ries from a Techno-Optimist

For as long as I can remem­ber, my father loved act­ing. Into his six­ties and ear­ly sev­en­ties, he was quite active in the the­ater. He played Tartuffe in Molière’s Tartuffe, Nick Bot­tom in Shakespeare’s A Mid­sum­mer Night’s Dream, and the Old Man in Steve Martin’s Picas­so at the Lapin Agile. When he won the role of Scrooge in a local pro­duc­tion of Dickens’s A Christ­mas Car­ol, I was so excit­ed for him that I bought tick­ets way before open­ing night. But he was hav­ing trou­ble remem­ber­ing his lines. Even­tu­al­ly, the direc­tor had to let him go.

To find out what was going on, my mom and dad went to his pri­ma­ry care physi­cian, who referred him to a neu­rol­o­gist. After wait­ing a month for that appoint­ment, the neu­rol­o­gist told Dad to see a neu­ropsy­chol­o­gist, who was booked anoth­er three months out. When that appoint­ment arrived, the neu­ropsy­chol­o­gist gave him a vari­ety of cog­ni­tive tests, includ­ing writ­ten, ver­bal, and com­put­er based. After anoth­er month, the neu­rol­o­gist called us back in and told my father, “You have mild cog­ni­tive impairment.”

“No shit, Sher­lock,” I thought. “That’s why we went to see his doc­tor six months ago.” The neu­rol­o­gist then dis­cussed my father’s oth­er health issues with us, which includ­ed car­dio­vas­cu­lar dis­ease, sleep apnea, type 2 dia­betes, and by that point, depres­sion. I then had an inspi­ra­tion. “Dad, when was the last time you used your CPAP machine?” He admit­ted sheep­ish­ly, “I don’t use it. I don’t like it.” [Read more…] about Tak­ing your brain vitals: Sto­ries from a tech­no-opti­mist invent­ing the future of human performance

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: AnthroTronix, brain health, cognition, cognitive changes, Cognitive-tests, concussions, Dana, dementia-diagnosis, detect cognitive changes, mild-cognitive-impairment, neurologist, neuropsychologist, physician, theater, vital sign

Exploring the human brain and how it responds to stress (1/3)

April 6, 2020 by Dr. Jerome Schultz

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Wor­ry is like a rock­ing chair. It gives you some­thing to do, but it gets you nowhere.
— Erma Bombeck

The brain is the con­trol cen­ter for all of our thoughts, actions, atti­tudes, and emo­tions. It’s the pilot­house on the river­boat of our lives. It’s Mis­sion Con­trol for all of our flights into space or time. It’s the air traf­fic con­troller that helps us nav­i­gate and reroute our paths based on incom­ing and out­go­ing infor­ma­tion and how we’re feel­ing about it at the time. It’s the John Williams of our per­son­al sym­pho­ny. It’s the Moth­er Ship to our Starfleet; it’s … (Uh, sor­ry, I got car­ried away there, but I think you get my point!)

As I was work­ing on the drafts of my lat­est book book, my own brain was very active, to say the least. [Read more…] about Explor­ing the human brain and how it responds to stress (1/3)

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Peak Performance Tagged With: human-brain, neurological, neuropsychologist, Stress, Stress Response

Update: Humankind’s evolving quest to enhance the brain and the mind

January 27, 2020 by SharpBrains

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Time for the first Sharp­Brains’ e‑newsletter in the new decade, fea­tur­ing a range of inspir­ing and (most­ly) promis­ing news about humankind’s evolv­ing quest to enhance the brain and the mind, and a few fun brain teasers 🙂

New thinking:

  • The Neu­ro­Gen­er­a­tion and Humankind’s Quest to Enhance the Brain
  • UCSF to open inno­v­a­tive neu­rol­o­gy clin­ic to address “diag­nos­tic odyssey”
  • For Span­ish speak­ers: watch pre­sen­ta­tion of El Cere­bro Que Cura

New research:

  • Five pro­found ways phys­i­cal exer­cise shapes your brain and mind
  • Hav­ing ADHD costs $1.1 mil­lion in low­er life­time earn­ings, even when “treat­ed”
  • Reminder: Pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment oppor­tu­ni­ty with neu­ropsy­chol­o­gist Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg

New tools:

  • The birth of “every­day” brain-com­put­er interfaces
  • Grow­ing inter­est in (and ques­tions around) brain train­ing cen­ters for kids with spe­cial needs
  • Neu­rotech seen at CES 2020: Brain­Co pros­thet­ic hand, Urgonight, Alpha-Stim X, NIRSIT Lite, Muse S and FocusFit

A few quick brain teasers to workout your prefrontal cortex:

  • Can you read this face?
  • 12 fun rid­dles to wel­come a sharp new year

 

Have a great February,

 

The Sharp­Brains Team

 

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: adhd, brain, brain riddles, Brain Teasers, brain teasers for adults, brain teasers for teens, brain training, brain training centers, brain-computer interface, el cerebro que cura, enhance the brain, exercise, mind, NeuroGeneration, Neurology Clinic, neuropsychologist, neurotech, prefrontal-cortex, quick brain teasers, UCSF

Final reminder: Professional development opportunity with neuropsychologist Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg

January 16, 2020 by SharpBrains

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We are pleased to share a fan­tas­tic pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment oppor­tu­ni­ty offered by the Luria Neu­ro­science Insti­tute and fea­tur­ing renowned neu­ropsy­chol­o­gist Elkhonon Gold­berg, Ph.D., ABPP. [Read more…] about Final reminder: Pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment oppor­tu­ni­ty with neu­ropsy­chol­o­gist Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: Bali, Cognitive Neuroscience, discount code, Elkhonon-Goldberg, Executive-Functions, frontal-lobes, Goldberg Brain-Mind Symposia, Luria Neuroscience Institute, neuropsychologist, Professional Development, webinar sequence

Starting next week: Two great professional development opportunities with renowned author and neuroscientist Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg

October 2, 2019 by SharpBrains

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Pleased to announce two fan­tas­tic pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties offered by the Luria Neu­ro­science Insti­tute and fea­tur­ing renowned author and neu­ropsy­chol­o­gist Elkhonon Gold­berg, Ph.D., ABPP. [Read more…] about Start­ing next week: Two great pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties with renowned author and neu­ro­sci­en­tist Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: Bali, Cognitive Neuroscience, discount code, Elkhonon-Goldberg, Executive-Functions, frontal-lobes, Goldberg Brain-Mind Symposia, Luria Neuroscience Institute, neuropsychologist, Professional Development, webinar sequence

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Applied Neuroscience and Neurotechnology

September 30, 2019 by SharpBrains

After a very busy month, it’s time now for Sharp­Brains e‑newsletter to sum­ma­rize the lat­est ini­tia­tives, tools and ideas for life­long brain health and men­tal fit­ness — and to share a few puz­zles and illu­sions to tease your brain.

A grow­ing num­ber of class­rooms in Chi­na are equipped with arti­fi­cial-intel­li­gence cam­eras and brain-wave track­ers. Video: Crys­tal Tai for The Wall Street Journal.

New neuro-infused education and healthcare initiatives:

  • Chi­na is har­ness­ing brain-wave track­ers and arti­fi­cial-intel­li­gence to raise bet­ter (and more com­pli­ant?) students
  • Report calls for wide class­room-based adop­tion of ten brain fit­ness pro­grams designed to improve foun­da­tion­al exec­u­tive functions
  • The Nation­al Health Ser­vice (NHS) in the UK con­sid­ers adding a 5‑minute cog­ni­tive test to its annu­al health check-up
  • CVS Health: Cog­ni­tive behav­ioral ther­a­py (CBT) apps may help you more than sleep­ing pills

New neurotech and digital health tools:

  • What does the Face­book acqui­si­tion of CTRL-Labs mean for Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy and Aug­ment­ed & Vir­tu­al Reality?
  • Start­up Aur­al Ana­lyt­ics rais­es $4.3M to mon­i­tor neu­ro­log­i­cal health by ana­lyz­ing speech patterns
  • Will per­son­al­ized med­i­ta­tion apps be able to repli­cate the expe­ri­ence of work­ing with a coach?
  • IBM, VA and Total Brain to test dig­i­tal men­tal health plat­form for vet­er­ans and reservists

New thinking on brain and mental health:

  • Two great pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties with renowned neu­ropsy­chol­o­gist Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg
  • Apple/ Eli Lilly’s bet: Wear­able and mobile con­sumer devices may well help us detect cog­ni­tive impair­ment and dementia
  • May “indus­try review boards” con­tribute to the wider adop­tion of vir­tu­al and aug­ment­ed real­i­ty for phys­i­cal and men­tal health?

Finally, a few fun brain teasers for adults and kids alike 🙂

  • Tease your brain with the Her­mann Grid illusion
  • Brain teas­er to test your pat­tern recog­ni­tion: Fill the void
  • Math brain teas­er requir­ing no math — just per­cep­tion and cognition

 

Have a great month of October,

 

The Sharp­Brains Team

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Filed Under: Brain Teasers, Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Apple, Applied Neuroscience, brain health, Brain Teasers, brain teasers for adults, Brain-Fitness, CBT, cognitive test, Cognitive-impairment, Ctrl-labs, CVS Health, Eli Lilly, Elkhonon-Goldberg, Executive-Functions, IBM, mental health, neuropsychologist, Neurotechnology, NHS, Total Brain

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