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San Francisco, April 6th: Explore the latest in Pervasive Neurotechnology @ NeuroTechSF

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SF_wearables_neurotechHeads-up: Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, our co-founder and the edi­tor-in-chief of Sharp­Brains’ lat­est mar­ket report, will present Per­va­sive Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy: The Inno­va­tion Land­scape at Neu­roTech SF 2016, a new indus­try con­fer­ence explor­ing break­throughs in brain mon­i­tor­ing, BCI, neu­ro­feed­back and stimulation.

–> To Learn More & Reg­is­ter, click HERE (20%-off dis­count code: SB20) [Read more…] about San Fran­cis­co, April 6th: Explore the lat­est in Per­va­sive Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy @ NeuroTechSF

Upcoming neurogaming conference in San Francisco

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NeuroGamingQuick heads-up: Ear­ly-bird reg­is­tra­tion to the first Neu­rogam­ing con­fer­ence expires on April 1st, 2013. Check out the agen­da now and see if you want to join a great ros­ter of indus­try speak­ers. I’ll be run­ning this ses­sion on May 1st:

Think, Think, Think: Cog­ni­tive Gam­ing Plat­forms. This pan­el will dis­cuss how break­through tech­nolo­gies like tran­scra­nial direct cur­rent stim­u­la­tion, ultra­sonic brain stim­u­la­tion, eye track­ing, and [Read more…] about Upcom­ing neu­rogam­ing con­fer­ence in San Francisco

Brain Health centers adding cognitive coaching services

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Brain Health Cen­ter expands ser­vices (San Fran­cis­co Chronicle):

“…Now, the ser­vices the med­ical team pro­vides will be expand­ed at the new Brain Health Cen­ter, which opened last month at CPM­C’s Davies cam­pus in San Fran­cis­co. The cen­ter, made pos­si­ble by an anony­mous $21 mil­lion dona­tion that estab­lished an endow­ment, offers [Read more…] about Brain Health cen­ters adding cog­ni­tive coach­ing services

Invitation for SharpBrains Summit Participants to Comment on Meeting Report and Join Council

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Over 50 insight­ful and fun mem­bers of the world­wide Sharp­Brains com­mu­ni­ty had the oppor­tu­ni­ty to gath­er in DC, New York and San Fran­cis­co last month in order to meet in per­son ‑often for the first time!- and to dis­cuss next steps to dri­ve mean­ing­ful inno­va­tion in the brain health and fit­ness space.

It is our plea­sure to invite Sharp­Brains Sum­mit par­tic­i­pants to con­tribute to, and to learn from, this grow­ing net­work, by ask­ing them to please: [Read more…] about Invi­ta­tion for Sharp­Brains Sum­mit Par­tic­i­pants to Com­ment on Meet­ing Report and Join Council

Intel Corporation and Lumos Labs Become Gold Sponsors of 2011 SharpBrains Summit

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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.

  1. Intel Cor­po­ra­tion, the “Spon­sors of Tomor­row™”, and Lumos Labs have become Sum­mit Gold Sponsors.
  2. Sharp­Brains will issue a Cer­tifi­cate of Atten­dance to par­tic­i­pants (20 hours of con­tin­u­ing education).
  3. Jamie Wil­son shares 20 rea­sons why vir­tu­al con­fer­ences are the future.
  4. NIH/ NIA Pro­gram Chief Mol­ly Wag­ster will dis­cuss the new NIH Tool­box for Assess­ment of Neu­ro­log­i­cal and Behav­ioral Function.
  5. Yaakov Stern (Colum­bia), David Dar­by (CogState), Kei­th Wesnes (Unit­ed BioSource) and Jef­frey Kaye (Orcat­e­ch) will explore The Role of Cog­ni­tive Health Mon­i­tor­ing Systems.
  6. Alvaro Fer­nan­dez (Sharp­Brains) and Muki Hansteen-Izo­ra (Intel Cor­po­ra­tion) will ana­lyze The State of Inno­va­tion and Emerg­ing Marketplace.
  7. You can still Reg­is­ter and obtain a com­pli­men­ta­ry copy of Sharp­Brains’ mar­ket report The State of the Brain Fit­ness Mar­ket 2010 (which includes mar­ket data, ven­dor analy­sis, inno­va­tion case stud­ies, research briefs, and more.)
  8. Michael Merzenich (UCSF), Alvaro Pas­cual-Leone (Har­vard), Wal­ter Green­leaf (Vir­tu­ally­Bet­ter) and Kate Sul­li­van (Wal­ter Reed) will dis­cuss how Inno­va­tion gets From Lab to Marketplace.
  9. Lumos Labs, Brain Resource, Cogmed, Bay­crest, Cog­niFit, and Posit Sci­ence will present their lat­est tools and solu­tions dur­ing Expo Day.
  10. A total of 19 excel­lent Sum­mit Part­ners help us expand Sum­mit’s reach and influence.
  11. We are plan­ning April/ May social gath­er­ings for Sum­mit par­tic­i­pants in 5 cities: San Fran­cis­co, Los Ange­les, Wash­ing­ton DC, NYC, and Toron­to, and will help facil­i­tate gath­er­ings in any city/ region with at least 10 Sum­mit participants.

Please vis­it the 2011 Sharp­Brains Sum­mit web­site to Learn More and Reg­is­ter.

Also, please fol­low us via Twit­ter and spread the word about the Sum­mit using hash­tag #svs11

We look for­ward to “meet­ing” many of you next week! Please remem­ber you can enter dis­count code sharp2011 in order to get 15% off reg­is­tra­tion fees.

UCSF study looks for Bay Area participants

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We often hear inter­est from peo­ple of all ages in being par­tic­i­pants in the cog­ni­tive research we are doing in our UCSF lab. How­ev­er, all of our exper­i­ments to date have been focused on under 20 year olds and the over 60 age group, and many peo­ple fall in between. Well, we have just launched our first exper­i­ment aimed at explor­ing the impact of dis­trac­tion and mul­ti­task­ing on per­for­mance across the lifes­pan, with a large enough num­ber of par­tic­i­pants to allow for gen­der com­par­isons. So, we are reach­ing to peo­ple of all ages with the oppor­tu­ni­ty to be par­tic­i­pate in this cool new experiment.

This is a behav­ioral study using a video game that we cre­at­ed and devel­oped to eval­u­ate these skills. It sets the stage for both a brain train­ing and brain record­ing exper­i­ment to fol­low. Tak­ing part requires an approx­i­mate­ly two-hour study at our lab at the UCSF Mis­sion Bay cam­pus (mul­ti­ple days/times avail­able for the test­ing). We are look­ing for right hand­ed indi­vid­u­als that are not col­or­blind, and not on any med­ica­tion for a neurological/psychiatric dis­or­der. [Read more…] about UCSF study looks for Bay Area participants