Dr. Michael Merzenich: To harness Neuroplasticity for cognitive enhancement, we need to think “Fitness” more than “Games”

By SharpBrains | June 7, 2016

(Edi­tor’s Note: In order to help read­ers famil­iar­ize them­selves with the work and think­ing of Dr. Michael Merzenich, one of the win­ners of the 2016 Kavli Prize in Neu­ro­science for ground­break­ing work on neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty, we are con­dens­ing and repub­lish­ing the com­pre­hen­sive con­ver­sa­tion that Dr. Merzenich and Alvaro Fer­nan­dez had in 2009, in prepa­ra­tion for the inaugural…

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San Francisco, April 6th: Explore the latest in Pervasive Neurotechnology @ NeuroTechSF

By SharpBrains | March 1, 2016

Heads-up: Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, our co-founder and the edi­­tor-in-chief of Sharp­Brains’ lat­est mar­ket report, will present Per­va­sive Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy: The Inno­va­tion Land­scape at Neu­roTech SF 2016, a new indus­try con­fer­ence explor­ing break­throughs in brain mon­i­tor­ing, BCI, neu­ro­feed­back and stim­u­la­tion. –> To Learn More & Reg­is­ter, click HERE (20%-off dis­count code: SB20)

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Registration is now closed @ Pervasive Neurotech Webinar, where the Digital Revolution meets the Human Brain

By SharpBrains | June 26, 2015

. Heads-up: Reg­is­tra­tion just closed for our webi­nar on how the Dig­i­tal Rev­o­lu­tion is meet­ing the Human Brain, build­ing on the new report Per­va­sive Neu­rotech­nol­ogy: A Ground­break­ing Analy­sis of 10,000+ Patent Fil­ings Trans­form­ing Med­i­cine, Health, Enter­tain­ment and Busi­ness. –> To learn more about the webi­nar and report, click HERE. Reg­is­tered par­tic­i­pants so far include inno­va­tors at IBM, Medtronic,…

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Top 14 Brain Fitness News in 2014: Research, Assessments and Training

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 18, 2014

Unless you live in a cave, you are well aware of all the grow­ing inter­est in–and con­tro­ver­sies around–the top­ics of brain fit­ness and brain train­ing. A lit­tle per­spec­tive may help sep­a­rate the sig­nal from the noise. Take a minute to think about the ear­ly years of the phys­i­cal fit­ness move­ment. It took decades of con­flict­ing research and confusing…

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A Call to Action: Improv­ing brain & men­tal health via dig­i­tal plat­forms, neu­ro­plas­tic­ity research and the White House BRAIN initiative

By SharpBrains | November 18, 2014

A Call to Action: Improv­ing brain & men­tal health via dig­i­tal plat­forms, neu­ro­plas­tic­ity research and the White House BRAIN ini­tia­tive from Sharp­Brains Ses­sion held at the 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit, fea­tur­ing: Dr. Thomas Insel, Direc­tor of the Nation­al Insti­tute of Men­tal Health (NIMH) Dr. Adam Gaz­za­ley, Direc­tor of UCSF Neu­ro­science Imag­ing Cen­ter and Co-founder of Akili Inter­ac­tive Labs Dr.…

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