Posts Tagged ‘NIH-toolbox’
Update: Connecting technology, healthy living, healthcare, concussions, and the Brain
Time for SharpBrains’ September 2012 eNewsletter, featuring leading-edge research and insights to help connect the dots among technology, healthy living, healthare, concussions, and–our protagonist–the brain. — Technology & the Brain: Is the Internet making us dumber? (Nope, just different) Increasing cognitive loads on miners’ brains: good example of where society is heading Brain fitness meets HRV and…
Read MoreThe NIH Toolbox ‑First Comprehensive & Standardized Tests of Brain Function- To Be Released Next Week
Neuroscience Just Got Faster, Cheaper and Easier (press release): “On Sept. 10 and 11, Gershon will introduce the new NIH Toolbox for Assessment of Behavioral and Neurological Function to hundreds of researchers at a special National Institutes of Health (NIH) conference in Bethesda, Maryland. At the end of September, the resource will be made fully…
Read MoreLessons from the SharpBrains Summit: Status Quo Not an Option
The 2011 SharpBrains Summit gathered more than 260 research and industry leaders in 16 countries for 3 days to discuss the changing landscape. Held online, participants from all over the globe attended to hear more than 40 thought leaders, scientists, entrepreneurs and policy makers outline the evolving marketplace. Discussion moved from cognitive fitness to neuroplasticity,…
Read MoreIntel Corporation and Lumos Labs Become Gold Sponsors of 2011 SharpBrains Summit
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…
Read MoreMichael Merzenich on Brain Training, Assessments, and Personal Brain Trainers
Interview with Dr. Michael Merzenich, Emeritus Professor at UCSF, a leading pioneer in brain plasticity research. In the late 1980s, Dr. Merzenich was on the team that invented the cochlear implant. In 1996, he was the founding CEO of Scientific Learning Corporation (Nasdaq: SCIL), and in 2004 became co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Posit Science. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1999 and to the Institute of Medicine this year. He retired as Francis A. Sooy Professor and Co-Director of the Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience at the University of California at San Francisco in 2007. You may have learned about his work in one of PBS TV specials, multiple media appearances, or neuroplasticity-related books.
Read MoreDr. Art Kramer on Why We Need Walking Book Clubs to Enhance Cognitive Fitness and Brain Health
Dr. Arthur Kramer is a Professor in the University of Illinois Department of Psychology, the Campus Neuroscience Program, the Beckman Institute, and the Director of the Biomedical Imaging Center at the University of Illinois. I am honored to interview him today. Dr. Kramer, thank you for your time. Let’ start by trying to clarify some existing…
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