Save the Date: 2012 SharpBrains Summit — Optimizing Health Through Neuroplasticity & Digital Innovation

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 8, 2012 |

Please Save these Dates if you are inter­est­ed in explor­ing and dis­cussing the lat­est on Opti­miz­ing Health Through Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty and Dig­i­tal Inno­va­tion; the theme for our third annu­al vir­tu­al Sharp­Brains Sum­mit (“vir­tu­al” means every­thing takes place online; no one has to trav­el): Pre-Sum­mit work­shops: May 31st-June 1st, 2012 Sum­mit: June 7–8th, 2012 Expo Week: June 12–14th, 2012…

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SharpBrains Council Monthly Insights: How will we assess, enhance and repair cognition across the lifespan?

By SharpBrains | November 18, 2010

When you think of how the PC has altered the fab­ric of soci­ety, per­mit­ting instant access to infor­ma­tion and automat­ing process­es beyond our wildest dreams, it is instruc­tive to con­sid­er that much of this progress was dri­ven by Moore’s law. Halv­ing the size of semi­con­duc­tor every 18 months catal­ysed an expo­nen­tial accel­er­a­tion in per­for­mance. Why…

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SharpBrains Council Weekly Update: 54 Members, Events, Industry, Research, Ideas

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 5, 2010

Let me pro­vide an overview of the great things going on with the Sharp­Brains Coun­cil for Brain Fit­ness Inno­va­tion — start­ing this week, we will share a brief update like this every Fri­day to main­tain Sharp­Brains col­leagues and read­ers informed. Please note that all links below require access to the Coun­cil’s online plat­form. Coun­cil Membership…

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Pearson acquires Cogmed working memory training

By Alvaro Fernandez | June 30, 2010

Karolin­s­ka Devel­op­ment to divest port­fo­lio com­pa­ny (press release) “Today, Karolin­s­ka Devel­op­ment has divest­ed Cogmed, one of Karolin­s­ka Devel­op­men­t’s port­fo­lio com­pa­nies, to Pear­son where it will become part of Pear­son­’s Clin­i­cal Assess­ment busi­ness.” Why does it make all the sense in the world for a large pub­lish­er with heavy edu­ca­tion­al and clin­i­cal oper­a­tions to acquire a…

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