Top 30 Highlights from the 2013 SharpBrains Virtual Summit: The latest on Brain Research, Health and Innovation

By SharpBrains | September 30, 2013

Over 30 speak­ers and 170 reg­is­tered par­tic­i­pants dis­cussed the lat­est on brain research, health and inno­va­tion at the fourth annu­al Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit, held in Sep­tem­ber 2013. Here are some of the fas­ci­nat­ing high­lights* that can help iden­ti­fy emerg­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties and pre­pare for sig­nif­i­cant changes like­ly to occur in the next 3–5 years. What surprised/ impressed…

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Top 10 Reasons To Join the 2013 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (September 19–20th)

By SharpBrains | September 9, 2013

We’d like to bring your atten­tion to the upcom­ing event that is like­ly to become a land­mark event for any­one inter­est­ed in health and well­ness appli­ca­tions of brain sci­ence. Top 10 Rea­sons to Join the 2013 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Sep­tem­ber 19–20th): Watch Patrick Aebis­cher, Pres­i­dent of the Swiss Fed­eral Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­­gy-Lau­sanne (EPFL), present the…

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Train your brain with targeted videogames, not with crossword puzzles

By SharpBrains | May 6, 2013

Study shows men­tal agili­ty game slows cog­ni­tive decline in old­er peo­ple (Iowa Now): “Wolin­sky and col­leagues sep­a­rat­ed 681 gen­er­al­ly healthy med­ical patients in Iowa into four groups—each fur­ther sep­a­rat­ed into those 50 to 64 years of age and those over age 65. One group was giv­en com­put­er­ized cross­word puz­zles, while three oth­er groups were exposed to…

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Will brain training be pre-loaded in your next cell phone?

By SharpBrains | January 9, 2013

Great­Call® and Posit Sci­ence® Part­ner to Offer Mobile Brain Exer­cis­es on the Jit­ter­bug Cell Phone (press release): “The two games, named “Quick Match” and “Make a Pair,” aim to improve mem­o­ry and cog­ni­tive think­ing for Great­Call cus­tomers, and come pre­loaded on all Jit­ter­bug Plus cell phones at no extra cost or month­ly ser­vice fee. Posit…

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Transcript: David DiSalvo on How Cultural Evolution Outpaces Natural Evolution and Old Brain Metaphors

By SharpBrains | December 9, 2011

Below you can find the full tran­script of our engag­ing Q&A ses­sion today with David DiS­al­vo, author of What makes your brain hap­py and why you should do the oppo­site, mod­er­at­ed by Alvaro Fer­nan­dez. You vis­it pre­vi­ous Q&A Ses­sions Here. Full Tran­script (Light­ly edit­ed) of Live Q&A held on Decem­ber 9th, 2–3pm ET

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