January Update: The Federal Trade Commission orders Focus Education to stop making unsubstantiated brain training claims

By SharpBrains | January 29, 2015

. Time for Sharp­Brains’ Jan­u­ary e‑newsletter, fea­tur­ing a wealth of brain health insights, neu­ro­science research reports, a land­mark action by the Fed­er­al Trade Commission…and some quick brain teasers. Enjoy! New research: Brain health research study by AARP: Con­sumers pur­sue brain train­ing to sup­port a more enjoy­able, self-man­aged life Can self-mon­i­­tor­ing help pro­mote aca­d­e­m­ic suc­cess, and reduce ADHD symp­toms, in col­lege students…

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Studies point toward clear benefits to cultivating mindfulness in the workplace

By Greater Good Science Center | January 16, 2015

. Research says mind­ful­ness works for indi­vid­u­als. But does it work in the bot­­tom-line-dri­ven work­place, or is it just a friv­o­lous feel-good pro­gram? This is the ques­tion tack­led in a grow­ing num­ber of stud­ies. Here are three ways, based on recent stud­ies, that cul­ti­vat­ing moment-to-moment aware­ness might improve work­places. Med­i­ta­tion might build self-con­­fi­­dence in leaders…

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CES 2013: Combining brains and digital health in the workplace

By SharpBrains | January 8, 2013

The Brain: On the Front­line of Dig­i­tal Health in the Work­place (Huff­in­g­ton Post): “…It is esti­mat­ed that some two bil­lion world­wide, one-third of the glob­al pop­u­la­tion, suf­fer from brain-based health and pro­duc­tiv­i­ty chal­lenges with a relat­ed cost bur­den of more than $2 tril­lion. The broad scope of this mar­ket is empha­sized fur­ther when con­sid­er­a­tion is giv­en to

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SharpBrains Council Monthly Insights: How will we assess, enhance and repair cognition across the lifespan?

By SharpBrains | November 18, 2010

When you think of how the PC has altered the fab­ric of soci­ety, per­mit­ting instant access to infor­ma­tion and automat­ing process­es beyond our wildest dreams, it is instruc­tive to con­sid­er that much of this progress was dri­ven by Moore’s law. Halv­ing the size of semi­con­duc­tor every 18 months catal­ysed an expo­nen­tial accel­er­a­tion in per­for­mance. Why…

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SharpBrains Council Weekly Update: 54 Members, Events, Industry, Research, Ideas

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 5, 2010

Let me pro­vide an overview of the great things going on with the Sharp­Brains Coun­cil for Brain Fit­ness Inno­va­tion — start­ing this week, we will share a brief update like this every Fri­day to main­tain Sharp­Brains col­leagues and read­ers informed. Please note that all links below require access to the Coun­cil’s online plat­form. Coun­cil Membership…

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