Got Brain? Investing in Our Most Precious Asset in 2013

Open a week­end New York Times or Wall Street Jour­nal and you’ll find a whole sec­tion with detailed infor­ma­tion and advice for indi­vid­u­als look­ing to invest wise­ly. What you will not find, how­ev­er, is com­pa­ra­ble infor­ma­tion and advice for invest­ing in your most impor­tant asset of all: your brain. Pre­cise­ly because it (usu­al­ly) does its…

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Brain fitness meets HRV and EEG biometrics and neuroinformatics

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…

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Update: Invest in Brain Health to Drive Health, Innovation and Prosperity

Time for Sharp­Brains’ July 2012 eNewslet­ter, fea­tur­ing in this occa­sion an in-depth arti­cle on why and how to Invest in Brain Health to Dri­ve Inno­va­tion and Pros­per­i­ty, by Veroni­ka Litin­s­ki. Fea­tured Per­spec­tives: Invest in Brain Health to Dri­ve Inno­va­tion and Pros­per­i­ty, by Veroni­ka Litin­s­ki Under­stand­ing, and Nur­tur­ing, Resilience, by Andrew Zol­li How Do Words, such as Yes and No,…

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More Thumbs Up for 2012 SharpBrains Virtual Summit: NeuroSky, Institut Guttmann, Strategic North

The 2012 Sharp­Brains Sum­mit proved to be a high­ly reward­ing, enjoy­able and extreme­ly use­ful expe­ri­ence. The hands-on infor­­ma­­tion-rich work­shops are help­ing take our cur­rent efforts to the next lev­el” — Josep M Tor­mos, Research Coor­di­na­tor, Insti­tut Guttmann “The Sharp­Brains Sum­mit brings togeth­er lead­ers in all rel­e­vant cog­ni­tive fields from busi­ness to aca­d­e­m­ic com­mu­ni­ties, as well as…

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Necomimi Available in USA: gaming application of NeuroSky EEG technology with wellness potential

Much Antic­i­pat­ed Necomi­mi Launch­es in the US (press release): “A con­cept born in Japan by Neu­rowear, a fash­ion elec­tron­ics com­pa­ny, Necomim­i’s pop­u­lar­i­ty sky­rock­et­ed with­in the ani­me and cos­tume communities…Necomimi is a head­band with cat ears that move accord­ing to the user’s feel­ings and emo­tions in real time. Necomi­mi, pow­ered by Neu­roSky’s ThinkGear tech­nol­o­gy, gives people…

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