Brain fitness meets HRV and EEG biometrics and neuroinformatics

By Yann Renard | September 27, 2012

As an active par­tic­i­pant in the Open­ViBE project (a soft­ware plat­form to design, test and use Brain-Com­put­er Inter­faces), in sci­en­tif­ic as well as tech­ni­cal capac­i­ties, I have long been focused on ways to process, ana­lyze and put brain sig­nals to prac­ti­cal use. When I start­ed read­ing on the sub­ject of brain fit­ness a few years…

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News: 2012 Summit Recordings are Available/ What Participants Say

By SharpBrains | June 26, 2012

The 2012 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit: Opti­miz­ing Health through Neu­ro­plas­tic­ity, Inno­va­tion and Data, held June 7–14th, con­cluded with a call to enhance brain health by har­ness­ing neu­ro­­plas­tic­i­­ty-based appli­ca­tions, big data plat­forms and con­sumer inter­est to aug­ment the tra­di­tional reliance on dis­­ease-based phar­ma­co­log­i­cal inter­ven­tions and frag­mented clin­i­cal tri­als. All ses­sions held dur­ing the 2012 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Summit…

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One size does not fit all: Does the brain ‘remember’ antidepressants?

By SharpBrains | March 28, 2012

Study offers more proof for the pow­er of place­bo, say UCLA researchers (UCLA press release): — “While the rela­tion­ship between pri­or treat­ment and the brain’s response to sub­se­quent treat­ment is unknown, a new study by UCLA researchers sug­gests that how the brain responds to anti­de­pres­sant med­ica­tion may be influ­enced by its remem­ber­ing of past antidepressant…

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Save the Date: 2012 SharpBrains Summit — Optimizing Health Through Neuroplasticity & Digital Innovation

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 8, 2012 |

Please Save these Dates if you are inter­est­ed in explor­ing and dis­cussing the lat­est on Opti­miz­ing Health Through Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty and Dig­i­tal Inno­va­tion; the theme for our third annu­al vir­tu­al Sharp­Brains Sum­mit (“vir­tu­al” means every­thing takes place online; no one has to trav­el): Pre-Sum­mit work­shops: May 31st-June 1st, 2012 Sum­mit: June 7–8th, 2012 Expo Week: June 12–14th, 2012…

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