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

By SharpBrains | March 16, 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

By Tan Le | February 12, 2020

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

By SharpBrains | July 21, 2017

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. ____________________ Will we soon have an “annu­al brain check-up” — and what may…

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

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 12, 2016

Dear 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…

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

By SharpBrains | December 9, 2016

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

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

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 6, 2016

Exact­ly 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…

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