SharpBrains Summit

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

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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 March 16th.

To con­tribute to such a glob­al edu­ca­tion­al cam­paign, espe­cial­ly now that many phys­i­cal events have been can­celled, we are offer­ing our best edu­ca­tion­al and pro­fes­sion­al resources at a 90% dis­count from today till Sun­day, March 22th.

–> To ben­e­fit from this oppor­tu­ni­ty, use this dis­count code: Brain­Week

 

Stay Healthy, Stay Warm, let’s Har­ness this oppor­tu­ni­ty to Sharp­en our Minds and Explore the lat­est on brain health and neurotechnology!

 

Our core edu­ca­tion­al and pro­fes­sion­al resources offered at a 90% dis­count this week: [Read more…] about Eight brain tech insights and a spe­cial offer to hon­or Brain Aware­ness Week 2020

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

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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 the futur­is­tic device with trepidation.

“Is it going to hurt my head?” she asks.

Sathish, the research work­er, has heard this ques­tion before. In fact, he’s heard sev­er­al sim­i­lar queries from anx­ious vil­lagers who have got­ten scared when they saw the brainwear.

“Will it give me a headache?”

“Is it going to give me an elec­tric shock?”

He assures the woman the head­set is pain­less and explains that all she has to do is sit qui­et­ly and allow her mind to wan­der. Sathish gen­tly adjusts an array of elec­trodes on the woman’s head and [Read more…] about What’s nor­mal? When it comes to the brain, it’s hard to say, and that’s why we need to study glob­al neurodiversity

Save the Date for 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit: Brain Enhancement in the Digital Age (December 5–7th, 2017)

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The 2017 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Decem­ber 5–7th, 2017) will fea­ture over thir­ty of the world’s top experts and inno­va­tors work­ing on ways to rein­vent Brain Enhance­ment in light of emerg­ing Neu­ro­science and Dig­i­tal Technologies.

Click HERE to learn more and reserve your spot.

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Will we soon have an “annu­al brain check-up” — and what may it look like? Under what con­di­tions may spe­cif­ic brain training/ enhance­ment meth­ods work? How can we best har­ness both human neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty and arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence (AI) to thrive in the 21st Cen­tu­ry? Which com­pa­nies, tech­nolo­gies and solu­tions are gain­ing the most trac­tion so far, and what are some best prac­tices for appro­pri­ate use?

Thank You! Access to Recordings + Slidedecks @ 2016 SharpBrains Virtual Summit

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2016sharpbrainssummit_logoDear Sum­mit participants,

What a fan­tas­tic, diverse, stim­u­lat­ing, for­ward-look­ing Sum­mit we enjoyed last week. Thank you all so much for your par­tic­i­pa­tion and insights!

A cou­ple impor­tant follow-ups:

1. RECORDINGS: reg­is­tered Sum­mit par­tic­i­pants can access all ses­sion record­ings now. 

–> Vis­it the Sum­mit Agen­da and click on each session’s title — use same login cre­den­tials. (Non-par­tic­i­pants can sub­scribe to our enewslet­ter to be noti­fied when record­ings become avail­able for purchase.)

Slid­edecks are also acces­si­ble. [Read more…] about Thank You! Access to Record­ings + Slid­edecks @ 2016 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Summit

“(As practiced today) There is too little wisdom in brain health”

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Great quote yes­ter­day at the 2016 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: Rein­vent­ing Brain Health in the Dig­i­tal Age.

“(As prac­ticed today) There is too lit­tle wis­dom in brain health” — Dr. Peter White­house, Pro­fes­sor of Neu­rol­o­gy at Case West­ern Reserve University

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We will send a fol­low-up email today to reg­is­tered par­tic­i­pants (record­ings, LinkedIn group, handouts…)

Thank you again–participants, speak­ers and spon­sors–for a fan­tas­tic event!

The Sum­mit Steer­ing Group

Reinventing Brain Health in the Digital Age…exactly 2 months from today

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2016summit_calendarExact­ly two months from today, these lead­ing sci­en­tists, inno­va­tors and experts will dis­cuss eight pri­or­i­ties to Rein­vent Brain Health in the Dig­i­tal Age. Please take a look at the Pre­lim­i­nary Agen­da, and at the list of gen­er­ous Sum­mit Spon­sors mak­ing the gath­er­ing possible.

Also, we have answered some Fre­quent­ly Asked Ques­tions, and pre­pared the brief video above (1 minute 30 sec­onds) to explain how it all works.
[Read more…] about Rein­vent­ing Brain Health in the Dig­i­tal Age…exactly 2 months from today