The Business and Ethics of the Brain Fitness Boom: New 4‑Part Series

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 4, 2012

Dur­ing a debrief­ing after the 2011 Sharp­Brains Sum­mit, Rick Moody, Direc­tor of the Office of Aca­d­e­m­ic Affairs at AARP, sug­gest­ed that I con­tribute a thought-lead­­er­­ship piece to a spe­cial issue on brain health for one of their pro­fes­sion­al pub­li­ca­tions by the Amer­i­can Soci­ety on Aging. You can now read the result, over 3,000 words on “The Business…

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

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 16, 2011

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…

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Full Recordings Available Now: 2011 SharpBrains Summit

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 31, 2011

We are pleased to announce that full record­ings for all pre­sen­ta­tions deliv­ered dur­ing the 2011 Sharp­Brains Sum­mit: Retool­ing Brain Health for the 21st Cen­tu­ry (March 30 — April 1, 2011) are now avail­able both to Sum­mit Par­tic­i­pants and to non-Par­tic­i­pants. You can Learn More Here and Access 40+ Talks and 20+ hours of up-to-date infor­ma­tion and analysis…

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What is Brain fitness? What are Future Opportunities? Experts Answer.

By SharpBrains | May 19, 2011

What is brain fit­ness real­ly? What will hap­pen in terms of brain fit­ness inno­va­tion in the next decade? What’s the biggest chal­lenge? Who could answer these ques­tions bet­ter than the expert Sharp­Brains 2011 Sum­mit speak­ers? Dis­cov­er below the answers of 7 of them. .1. How would you define “brain fit­ness” vs. “phys­i­cal fit­ness”? Alvaro Pas­cual-Leone, Harvard…

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March/ April Update: Brain Health Status Quo No Longer An Option

By SharpBrains | April 29, 2011 |

The 2011 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (March 30th — April 1st) gath­ered more than 260 research and indus­try lead­ers from 16 coun­tries for 3 days to dis­cuss the chang­ing land­scape of Brain Health and Cog­ni­tive Fit­ness. It was a great suc­cess! Find the key lessons and take-home points from the Sum­mit in these 2 arti­cles by…

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Lessons from the SharpBrains Summit: Status Quo Not an Option

By Dr. Jamie Wilson | April 26, 2011 |

The 2011 Sharp­Brains Sum­mit gath­ered  more than 260 research and indus­try lead­ers in 16 coun­tries for 3 days to dis­cuss the chang­ing land­scape. Held online, par­tic­i­pants from all over the globe  attend­ed to hear more than 40 thought lead­ers, sci­en­tists, entre­pre­neurs and pol­i­cy mak­ers out­line the evolv­ing mar­ket­place. Dis­cus­sion moved from cog­ni­tive fit­ness to neuroplasticity,…

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