Upcoming market report on Pervasive Neurotechnology

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 2, 2015

Just a quick heads-up to the Sharp­Brains com­mu­ni­ty: we are wrap­ping up a com­pre­hen­sive mar­ket report on Per­va­sive Neu­rotech­nolo­gies (non-inva­­sive, scal­able, poten­tial­ly ubiq­ui­tous). To learn when it becomes avail­able, keep tuned via our e‑Newsletter. See below, in alpha­bet­i­cal order, a few of the orga­ni­za­tions to be pro­filed in the report, giv­en their rel­e­vant intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty portfolios…

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Study: For healthy older adults, social brain training offers the most clear benefits

By SharpBrains | November 26, 2014

— If Home Brain Train­ing Apps Don’t Work, What Does? (Health­line): “In a study pub­lished online Nov. 18 in PLOS Med­i­cine, Aus­tralian researchers reviewed 52 pre­vi­ous stud­ies that looked at the ben­e­fits of com­put­er­ized brain train­ing soft­ware for 4,885 healthy seniors. While brain train­ing pro­grams like Lumos­i­ty, Cogmed, and Posit Sci­ence promise to help you…

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Out: crossword puzzles. In: digital cognitive assessments and training

By SharpBrains | October 10, 2014

Do brain games work? (The Boston Globe): “There’s intense interest?—?and the poten­tial for big money?—?in the world of brain games. Lumosity…claims 60 mil­lion users…The mar­ket for Lumos­i­ty and com­peti­tors like Cogmed and Posit Sci­ence is grow­ing 25 per­cent a year, accord­ing to Sharp­Brains, a neu­ro-well­­ness research firm. 

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Transcript: Q&A with Alvaro Fernandez about The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness

By SharpBrains | January 11, 2014

You can now read the full tran­script of yes­ter­day’s Q&A ses­sion on a vari­ety of brain health and fit­ness top­ics, from mem­o­ry improve­ment to heart rate mon­i­tors, exer­cise, med­i­ta­tion, “Grain Brain,” brain train­ing, and more. A cou­ple of good exchanges: Ques­tion by Stephen Jep­son What spe­cif­ic phys­i­cal activ­i­ties con­tribute to the great­est changes in the brain…

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The big picture about Lumosity, Posit Science and Emotiv

By SharpBrains | November 14, 2013

How can inno­va­tors lever­age crowd­fund­ing and strate­gic invest­ments to gain dis­tri­b­u­tion reach? from Sharp­Brains You can now enjoy the slide deck from this ses­sion, which took place at the 2013 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Sep­tem­ber 19–20th).

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