28 Confirmed Speakers: Optimizing Health through Neuroplasticity & Digital Innovation

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 23, 2012

The 2012 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (June 7–8th 2012, no trav­el required since event takes place ful­ly online) is plung­ing ahead, with 28 Con­firmed Speak­ers so far: Dr. Tra­cy Alloway, Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor, Uni­ver­sity of North Flori­da; author of AWMA assess­ment Dr. Gre­gory Bay­er, CEO, Brain Resource Dr. Robert Bilder, Chief of Med­ical Psy­­chol­o­­gy-Neu­rop­sy­­chol­o­­gy, UCLA Semel Insti­tute for Neu­ro­science Nolan Bush­nell, Founder,…

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Intel Corporation and Lumos Labs Become Gold Sponsors of 2011 SharpBrains Summit

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 22, 2011

We are pleased to make eleven impor­tant announce­ments about the upcom­ing 2011 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit…eleven addi­tion­al rea­sons to con­sid­er reg­is­ter­ing and join­ing our event and com­mu­ni­ty next week. Intel Cor­po­ra­tion, the “Spon­sors of Tomor­row™”, and Lumos Labs have become Sum­mit Gold Spon­sors. Sharp­Brains will issue a Cer­tifi­cate of Atten­dance to par­tic­i­pants (20 hours of con­tin­u­ing edu­ca­tion). Jamie…

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

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 3, 2011

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…

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Mental Floss at Military Officer magazine

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 21, 2008

Good arti­cle on the August edi­tion of Mil­i­tary Offi­cer mag­a­zine: Men­tal Floss (August 2008) (link opens a PDF-life doc­u­ment, you can read the text by Zoom­ing In). My 2 favorite quotes, both by Dr. Mol­ly Wag­ster, chief of the Neu­ropsy­chol­o­gy of Aging Branch, Nation­al Insti­tute on Aging (NIA) in Bethes­da, Md: — “Cer­tain­ly as we age there…

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