Tracking Health and Wellness Applications of Brain Science

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Brain hacking emerges as latest trend in wearable tech, but is it ready for prime time?

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Brain-zap­ping gad­gets promise to make you a bet­ter you — smarter, stronger, even hap­pi­er (The Wash­ing­ton Post):

“Amer­i­cans’ obses­sion with well­ness is fuel­ing a new cat­e­go­ry of con­sumer elec­tron­ics, one that goes far beyond the ubiq­ui­tous Fit­bits and UP activ­i­ty wrist­bands that only pas­sive­ly mon­i­tor users’ phys­i­cal activ­i­ty. The lat­est wear­able tech, to put it in the sim­plest terms, is about hack­ing your brain. [Read more…] about Brain hack­ing emerges as lat­est trend in wear­able tech, but is it ready for prime time?

Trend: Nestle launches Wellness Club in Japan integrating Nutritionists and Brain Trainers

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wellness-club-japanMatch made in nutri­tion­al heav­en: Nestlé launch­es Well­ness Club (press release):

‘Nestlé Japan has launched the company’s first per­son­alised health sup­port ser­vice. Nestlé Well­ness Club pro­vides sub­scribers with nutri­tion­al sup­port based on data about their phys­i­cal activ­i­ty, dietary infor­ma­tion and brain train­ing scores, [Read more…] about Trend: Nes­tle launch­es Well­ness Club in Japan inte­grat­ing Nutri­tion­ists and Brain Train­ers

Scaling up meditation, mindfulness practices via biofeedback systems and wellness programs

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That will be the focus of the third ses­sion at the 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Octo­ber 28–30th, 2014). We hope you can join us!

Scal­ing up med­i­ta­tion and mind­ful­ness prac­tices via biofeed­back sys­tems and well­ness pro­grams

  • Dr. Dou­glass Ziedo­nis, Pro­fes­sor and Chair of the Depart­ment of Psy­chi­a­try at UMass Med­ical School
  • Ariel Garten, CEO of Inter­aX­on
  • Dr. Dhar­ma Singh Khal­sa, Pres­i­dent of the Alzheimer’s Research and Pre­ven­tion Foun­da­tion
  • Dr. Evian Gor­don, Exec­u­tive Chair­man of Brain Resource

[Read more…] about Scal­ing up med­i­ta­tion, mind­ful­ness prac­tices via biofeed­back sys­tems and well­ness pro­grams

How to max­i­mize the resilience and pro­duc­tiv­ity of human resources

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You can now enjoy the slide deck from this ses­sion, which took place at the 2013 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Sep­tem­ber 19–20th). [Read more…] about How to max­i­mize the resilience and pro­duc­tiv­ity of human resources

Teresa Kennedy: Total health includes physical AND mental fitness

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Teresa Kay-Aba Kennedy. Photo Credit: Dwayne Watkins
Tere­sa Kay-Aba Kennedy. Pho­to Cred­it: Dwayne Watkins

What excites you the most about your job?
As Pres­i­dent of Pow­er Liv­ing Enter­pris­es, it excites me that we are improv­ing peo­ple’s lives through our mind-body train­ing, coach­ing and con­sult­ing ser­vices, as well as the con­tent we cre­ate.

Please tell us about your inter­est in applied brain sci­ence. What areas are you most inter­ested in? What moti­vated you to pur­sue work in your field? 
The brain has always been fas­ci­nat­ing to me. I’m approach­ing it from the mind-body train­ing and con­tent stand­point. I have an MBA from Har­vard and also found­ed the first yoga stu­dio in Harlem 12 years ago. I blend the two now by train­ing exec­u­tives in mind­ful­ness, lead­er­ship and well­ness. [Read more…] about Tere­sa Kennedy: Total health includes phys­i­cal AND men­tal fit­ness