Itamar Lesuisse at Peak: Let’s integrate brain training with the quantified self

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 22, 2014

What is your cur­rent job title and orga­ni­za­tion, and what excites you the most about work­ing there? I am the CEO at Peak, a mobile brain-train­ing app that helps users to enjoy becom­ing bet­ter every day. My cofounders and I want­ed to start a com­pa­ny where tech­nol­o­gy, sci­ence, edu­ca­tion and gam­ing blend togeth­er to cre­ate a…

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How to harness videogames and big data to personalize cognitive training

By SharpBrains | September 8, 2014

— That will be the focus of the sec­ond ses­sion at the 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Octo­ber 28–30th, 2014). We hope you can join us! How to har­ness videogames and big data to deliv­er per­son­al­ized cog­ni­tive train­ing Dr. Joe Hardy, ?VP of R&D at Lumos Labs Dr. Daphne Bave­lier, Head of the Bave­lier Brain & Learn­ing Lab at the University…

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Shaping the Brain Fitness Movement: Preliminary Summit Agenda unveiled

By SharpBrains | July 25, 2014

We are pleased to announce the Pre­lim­i­nary Agen­da for the 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Octo­ber 28–30th, 2014), fea­tur­ing these world-class sci­en­tists, inno­va­tors and prac­ti­tion­ers (and more com­ing soon!). Please con­sid­er join­ing us: Dr. Adam Gaz­za­ley, Direc­tor of the Neu­ro­science Imag­ing Cen­ter at the Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia, San Fran­cis­co Aki Niko­laidis, NSF Fel­low at the Uni­ver­sity of…

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