Survey of key scientific, technological and investment trends revolutionizing Brain Health in our Digital Age

—– Last year I got very inter­est­ed in the func­tion­ing of the human brain and the sci­ence behind mind­ful­ness and learn­ing [1], so was quite excit­ed  to attend the Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit [2] in Decem­ber, indulging in the lat­est trends in applied neu­ro­science and dig­i­tal inno­va­tion. The Sum­mit focused on the theme of rein­vent­ing brain health in the digital…

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UT Dallas researcher secures $2.7m grant to better monitor and address TBI-related cognitive and functional deficits

Sci­en­tist Gets Grant for Study of Vet­er­ans with Trau­mat­ic Brain Injuries (UT Dal­las release): A researcher from the Cen­ter for Brain­Health at UT Dal­las has been award­ed a $2.7 mil­lion grant from the Depart­ment of Defense (DoD) under the Joint Warfight­er Med­ical Research Pro­gram. The grant, award­ed to Dr. Daniel Kraw­czyk, deputy direc­tor of the…

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Learn more about the 2013 SharpBrains Summit & register today

The 2013 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Sept 19–20, 2013) will fea­ture over 30 of the world’s top sci­en­tists, inno­va­tors and deci­­sion-mak­ers work­ing on ways to enhance behav­ioral and brain health via neu­ro­­science-based inno­va­tion. Con­firmed Sum­mit Chairs and Speak­ers include 8 trail­blaz­ers named Young Glob­al Lead­ers by the World Eco­nom­ic Forum, and pio­neers at the Nation­al Science…

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36-Hour Offer: Integrative Neuroscience, Personalized Medicine and the 2011 SharpBrains Summit

An impres­sive recent ref­er­ence book on the future of brain care is Inte­gra­tive Neu­ro­science and Per­son­al­ized Med­i­cine, edit­ed by Evian Gor­don and Stephen H. Koslow (Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty Press; $89.95). Book descrip­tion: This book takes an in depth and hard look at the cur­rent sta­tus and future direc­tion of treat­ment pre­dic­tive mark­ers in Per­son­al­ized Med­i­cine for…

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