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How will the Clinicians, Patients and Consumers of the Future ensure appropriate use of brain enhancement methods encompassing lifestyle, supplements, brain training, meditation, bio/ neurofeedback, tDCS and more?

December 27, 2017 by SharpBrains

How will the Clin­i­cians, Patients and Con­sumers of the Future ensure appro­pri­ate use of brain enhance­ment meth­ods encom­pass­ing lifestyle, sup­ple­ments, brain train­ing, med­i­ta­tion, bio/ neu­ro­feed­back, tDCS and more? (record­ing requires reg­is­tra­tion; view slid­edeck above or Here)

  • Dr. Eddie Mar­tuc­ci, Co-Founder and CEO of Akili Inter­ac­tive Labs
  • Dr. Anna Wexler, sci­ence writer, film­mak­er and post­doc fel­low at the Depart­ment of Med­ical Ethics and Health Pol­i­cy at UPenn’s Perel­man School of Medicine
  • Dr. Olivi­er Oul­li­er, Pres­i­dent of EMOTIV 
  • Dr. Peter Rein­er, Co-Founder of the Nation­al Core for Neu­roethics at the Uni­ver­si­ty of British Columbia
  • Chaired by: Dr. Ali­son Fen­ney, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of the Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy Indus­try Orga­ni­za­tion (NIO)

Slid­edeck above sup­port­ed ses­sion held dur­ing the 2017 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: Brain Health & Enhance­ment in the Dig­i­tal Age (Decem­ber 5–7th).

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Akili, Akili Interactive Labs, brain-enhancement, Brain-Training, Clinicians, Consumers, Emotiv, ethics, future, lifestyle, meditation, Neuroethics, Neurofeedback, NIO, patients, supplements, tDCS, UBC, UPenn

Dr. Tom Insel and 12 other world-class brain experts confirmed to Speak @ 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (December 5–7th, 2017)

September 6, 2017 by SharpBrains

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We are proud to share what’s already shap­ing up to be a quite spec­tac­u­lar and unique Speak­ing Ros­ter at the 2017 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit, start­ing with Thomas R. lnsel, MD, a psy­chi­a­trist, neu­ro­sci­en­tist, and cur­rent­ly a co-founder and Pres­i­dent of Mind­strong Health. From 2002–2015, Dr. Insel served as Direc­tor of the Nation­al Insti­tute of Men­tal Health (NIMH), [Read more…] about Dr. Tom Insel and 12 oth­er world-class brain experts con­firmed to Speak @ 2017 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Decem­ber 5–7th, 2017)

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: AARP, Akili Interactive Labs, Barcelona Brain Health Initiative, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Digital Cognition Technologies, Global Council on Brain Health, Interaxon, Mindstrong Health, Neuroethics, NIMH, Sapien Labs, sharpbrains, Telefónica, Telefónica Innovation, UBC

Six New Speakers @ 2011 SharpBrains Summit

February 7, 2011 by Alvaro Fernandez

We are proud to con­firm six addi­tion­al excel­lent Speak­ers at the upcom­ing 2011 Sharp­Brains Sum­mit (remem­ber, this is a ful­ly vir­tu­al event so it requires no trav­el). Three Speak­ers are based in the US, two in the UK, one in Aus­tralia, and they tru­ly rep­re­sent a range of per­spec­tives and exper­tise to dis­cuss, as the Sum­mit tagline promis­es, Retool­ing Brain Health for the 21st Cen­tu­ry. [Read more…] about Six New Speak­ers @ 2011 Sharp­Brains Summit

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Filed Under: Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Alzheimers-Research-and-Prevention-Foundation, Cary Cooper, Dharma-Singh-Khalsa, foresight project, Foresight Project on Mental Capital and Wellbeing, Keith Wesnes, Lancaster University, Martha Farah, medical director, mental capital, mental wellbeing, Michael Valenzuela, neu­roethics, neuroimaging, neuroplasticity, neuroscience, Organizational Psychology, Posit Sci­ence, Steven Aldrich, UBC, Uni­ver­sity of Penn­syl­va­nia, United BioSource Cor­po­ra­tion, United-BioSource, University of New South Wales

United BioSource Corporation Announces Acquisition of Cognitive Drug Research (computerized cognitive testing)

September 14, 2009 by Alvaro Fernandez

Press release: “Leader in cog­ni­tion mea­sure­ment inte­grates into UBC to max­i­mize mea­sure­ment pre­ci­sion of piv­otal end­points and ensure data integri­ty. Unit­ed BioSource Cor­po­ra­tion (UBC) today announced the acqui­si­tion of CDR”

Press release (09/10/09): Here

Analy­sis for mem­bers of Sharp­Brains Net­work for Brain Fit­ness Inno­va­tion: Here

For con­text, see our pre­vi­ous arti­cle titled Com­put­er­ized Cog­ni­tive Assess­ments: oppor­tu­ni­ties and con­cerns, focused on the OptumHealth — Brain­Re­source part­ner­ship and inno­v­a­tive work by the US Army.

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Filed Under: Technology & Innovation Tagged With: brain-fitness-innovation, Brain-Resource, CDR, cognition, cognition-measurement, cognitive-assessments, Cognitive-Drug-Research, computerized-cognitive-testing, OptumHealth, UBC, United-BioSource, United-BioSource-Corporation, US-Army

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