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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Study: Dyslexia not related to intelligence. Implications for discrepancy model?

By SharpBrains | November 6, 2011

NIH-fund­ed study finds dyslex­ia not tied to IQ (NIH press release): — “Regard­less of high or low over­all scores on an IQ test, chil­dren with dyslex­ia show sim­i­lar pat­terns of brain activ­i­ty, accord­ing to researchers sup­port­ed by the Nation­al Insti­tutes of Health. The results call into ques­tion the dis­crep­an­cy mod­el — the prac­tice of classifying…

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Thinking globally to improve mental health: New NIH initiative

By SharpBrains | July 7, 2011

Think­ing glob­al­ly to improve men­tal health: NIH announces inter­na­tion­al research ini­tia­tive (press release): — “The Grand Chal­lenges in Glob­al Men­tal Health Ini­tia­tive, led by the Nation­al Insti­tutes of Health and the Glob­al Alliance for Chron­ic Dis­eases, has iden­ti­fied the top 40 bar­ri­ers to bet­ter men­tal health around the world. Sim­i­lar to past grand chal­lenges, which 

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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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