September 17th @ UC Berkeley: Disrupting neurodegenerative diseases

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 28, 2019

__________ Quick heads-up about a great event next month for those based in the San Fran­cis­co Bay Area. When: Tues­day, Sep­tem­ber 17, 2019 / 8:30 AM – 6:00 PM PDT Where: Pauley Ball­room, UC Berke­ley What: 2019 UC Berke­ley Aging Research & Tech­nol­o­gy Sum­mit: Dis­rupt­ing Neu­rode­gen­er­a­tive Dis­eases Alzheimer’s and neu­rode­gen­er­a­tive dis­eases are

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Belén Guerra-Carrillo to speak about Cognition, Learning and How to Conduct a 200,000-participant Study at the 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 8, 2017

Proud to con­firm a new excel­lent Speak­er @ 2017 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Decem­ber 5–7th). Belén Guer­ra-Car­ril­­lo is an NSF fel­low and a doc­tor­al stu­dent at UC Berke­ley in Prof. Sil­via Bunge’s Build­ing Blocks of Cog­ni­tion Lab. She is par­tic­u­lar­ly inter­est­ed in the neur­al and cog­ni­tive mech­a­nisms that give rise to changes that occur as a result of…

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Large study highlights the cognitive enhancement value of both higher education and lifelong learning

By SharpBrains | August 25, 2017

  _______ UC Berke­ley study links cog­ni­tive longevi­ty to high­er edu­ca­tion (The Dai­ly Cal­i­forn­ian): “A study led by cam­pus researchers found that high­er lev­els of edu­ca­tion are linked to lat­er ages of peak cog­ni­tive performance…The team was able to use anony­mous data gath­ered from almost 200,000 sub­scribers to Lumos­i­ty, an online cog­ni­tive train­ing pro­gram, whose…

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Witnessing an explosion of consumer-facing neurotechnologies to (potentially) harness lifelong neuroplasticity

By Apoorv Mathur | January 30, 2017

— Last week I shared some key sci­en­tif­ic, tech­no­log­i­cal and invest­ment trends rev­o­lu­tion­iz­ing Brain Health, based on my par­tic­i­pa­tion at the 2016 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit, and promised a sec­ond arti­cle more focused on the tech­nol­o­gy side of things. Here it is :-) Just a few weeks after the Sharp­Brains Sum­mit I also attend­ed CES 2017. While I enjoyed the myr­i­ad emerging…

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Upgrading education with lifelong brain development in mind

By SharpBrains | December 29, 2016

Upgrade edu­ca­tion with life­long brain devel­op­ment in mind from Sharp­Brains Two researcher/ prac­ti­tion­ers, involved in spe­cial and life­long learn­ing, explore emerg­ing best prac­tices to help schools, edu­ca­tors, par­ents, and old­er adults nav­i­gate and apply core find­ings from cog­ni­tive and affec­tive neu­ro­science. Chair: Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, CEO & Edi­­tor-in-Chief of Sharp­Brains Deb­bie Gilmore, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of the…

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Announcement: Nine new excellent Speakers @ 2016 SharpBrains Virtual Summit

By SharpBrains | October 20, 2016

We are delight­ed to announce nine new excel­lent Speak­ers at the upcom­ing 2016 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: Rein­vent­ing Brain Health in the Dig­i­tal Age (Decem­ber 6–8, 2016): Dr. Corey McCann, CEO of Pear Ther­a­peu­tics Debra Gilmore, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of The Arrow­smith Pro­gram Edward Kli­phuis, Invest­ment Direc­tor at Mer­ck Ven­tures Eri­ka Jack­son, VP of Train­ing and Oper­a­tions for Wellcoaches…

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