Key take-aways from the 2015 SharpBrains Virtual Summit

By SharpBrains | December 16, 2015

. Take-aways from 2015 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Neu­rotech News): “In Novem­ber (17th-19th) Sharp­Brains held its Vir­tu­al Sum­mit about “Mon­i­tor­ing & Enhanc­ing Brain Health in the Per­va­sive Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy Era.” The Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit is, as you might guess, a vir­tu­al (online) conference…The vir­tu­al sum­mit had it’s own divi­sion of top­ics for group­ing the dif­fer­ent speak­ers (see…

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Update: Latest thinking and neuro-tools to promote lifelong brain health

By SharpBrains | June 28, 2015

. Time for Sharp­Brains’ June e‑newsletter, wrap­ping up this month’s key news and insights around brain health inno­va­tion. New think­ing to pro­mote life­long brain health Why cog­ni­tive behav­ioral ther­a­py (CBT) should be first-line treat­ment for chron­ic insom­nia Solv­ing the Brain Fit­ness Puz­zle Is the Key to Self-Empow­ered Aging The Dig­i­tal Rev­o­lu­tion Meets the Human Brain El nego­cio del…

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SharpBrains in the news

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 15, 2013

Here you are sev­er­al recent arti­cles quot­ing Sharp­Brains and our new Dig­i­tal Brain Health mar­ket report –which I’ll dis­cuss today at ESCoNS2: Sharp­Brains Data and Brain Games High­light Brain Aware­ness Week (Wired blog) Will a Big IPO Make Investors Take Brain Fit­ness More Seri­ous­ly? (Pri­vate Equi­ty Hub) Head Games (OC Reg­is­ter) Per­son­al Neu­ro Devices mak­ing smart­phone apps that read your…

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Brain Fitness Programs For Seniors Housing, Healthcare and Insurance Providers: Evaluation Checklist

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 24, 2008 |

Dur­ing the research phase before the pub­li­ca­tion of the spe­cial report Brain Fit­ness Cen­ters in Seniors Hous­ing — A Field in the Mak­ing, pub­lished by the Amer­i­can Seniors Hous­ing Asso­ci­a­tion (ASHA), we real­ized that there were equal amounts of inter­est and con­fu­sion among exec­u­tives and pro­fes­sion­als think­ing about adding com­put­er-based cog­ni­tive exer­cise prod­ucts to their…

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Brain and Mind News and Articles

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 13, 2007 |

Here you have a col­lec­tion of recent news cov­er­age on brain heath, fit­ness and train­ing top­ics: 1- Great Mem­o­ry Spe­cial in Nation­al Geo­graph­ic, includ­ing — Inter­ac­tive 3D map of the brain — Mem­o­ry Game 2- Fas­ci­nat­ing What the Bea­t­les Gave Sci­ence, by Sharon Beg­ley at Newsweek — “Even in novices, med­i­ta­tion leaves its mark. An eight-week course…

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Enhancing Cognition and Emotions for Learning — Learning & The Brain Conference

By Caroline Latham | February 26, 2007

Alvaro and I had the good for­tune to attend a great con­fer­ence last week called Learn­ing & The Brain: Enhanc­ing Cog­ni­tion and Emo­tions for Learn­ing.… Some top­ics were meant to be applied imme­di­ate­ly, but many were food for thought — dis­cus­sions on where sci­ence and edu­ca­tion are headed.Using dra­mat­ic new imag­ing tech­niques, such as fMRIs, PET, and SPECT, neu­ro­sci­en­tists are gain­ing valu­able infor­ma­tion about learn­ing. This pio­neer­ing knowl­edge is lead­ing not only to new ped­a­go­gies, but also to new med­ica­tions, brain enhance­ment tech­nolo­gies, and ther­a­pies. Dis­cov­er how new adven­tures could change edu­ca­tion, learn­ing dis­or­der inter­ven­tions, and even soci­ety itself in the future.

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