A few slow-paced breaths are enough to significantly reduce physiological stress

Wel­come to a new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains’ e‑newsletter, shar­ing impor­tant brain & men­tal health news plus a cou­ple fun brain teasers to test your men­tal self-rota­­tion skills. #1. Study: Edu­ca­tion and lifestyle helped over a mil­lion old­er Amer­i­cans avoid seri­ous cog­ni­tive prob­lems in 2017 Let’s kick­start 2022 with some good news: “The preva­lence of seri­ous cognitive…

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Eight brain tech insights and a special offer to honor Brain Awareness Week 2020

__ Every March, Brain Aware­ness Week (BAW) unites hun­dreds of orga­ni­za­tions world­wide in a cel­e­bra­tion of the brain for peo­ple of all ages. Activ­i­ties typ­i­cal­ly include open days at neu­ro­science labs, exhi­bi­tions about the brain, lec­tures on brain-relat­ed top­ics, dis­plays at libraries and com­mu­ni­ty cen­ters, class­room work­shops, and more. Brain Aware­ness Week 2020 starts today, Monday…

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What’s normal? When it comes to the brain, it’s hard to say, and that’s why we need to study global neurodiversity

In a small vil­lage in India—a place so remote it has no elec­tric­i­ty, no telecom­mu­ni­ca­tion sys­tem, and no cars or buses—a research work­er pre­pares to place an EEG head­set on a female villager’s head. The woman, who earns $3.75 a day labor­ing in a near­by rice pad­dy and who has nev­er ven­tured out­side her vil­lage, eyes…

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El Cerebro Que Cura: Descubre la mejor forma de mantener un cerebro sano como fuente de salud

___ Álvaro Fer­nán­dez, CEO de Sharp­Brains, estu­vo recien­te­mente en Abante para pre­sen­tarnos “El cere­bro que cura: Des­cubre la mejor for­ma de man­ten­er un cere­bro sano como fuente de salud“, el libro que escribió jun­to a Álvaro Pas­cual-Leone, neu­ro­cien­tí­fi­co de la Uni­ver­si­dad de Har­vard, y a David Bartrés-Faz, pro­fe­sor de la Fac­ul­tad de Med­i­c­i­na y Ciencias…

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Navigating the Brain/ Mind Innovation Landscape

? Nav­i­gat­ing the Brain/ Mind Inno­va­tion Land­scape & Book pre­sen­ta­tion El Cere­bro Que Cura (The Brain That Heals) from Sharp­Brains Hop­ing you enjoy this slid­edeck sup­port­ing a mar­ket and inno­va­tion overview pre­sent­ed and dis­cussed dur­ing the 2019 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: The Future of Brain Health (March 7–9th).  Full record­ings are avail­able for pur­chase here. 11am-Noon. Nav­i­gat­ing the Brain/…

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Heads-up: You can now watch all Recordings (40+ Speakers, 12+ Hours) from the 2019 SharpBrains Virtual Summit

The 2019 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (May 7–9th, 2019)  fea­tured over forty of the world’s top experts and inno­va­tors work­ing to improve brain health for all in light of grow­ing neu­ro­science and dig­i­tal tech. You can read some of the main high­lights here. Addi­tion­al­ly the Sum­mit host­ed the sec­ond edi­tion of the Brainnova­tions Pitch Con­test to high­light ways in which emerg­ing sci­en­tif­ic find­ings are…

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