Where Brain Health Meets Digital Health and Big Data

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 16, 2013

2013 is an excit­ing time to have a brain. Over the past two decades, our under­stand­ing of the human brain has grown expo­nen­tial­ly. Fueled by this new infor­ma­tion, the num­ber and vari­ety of brain appli­ca­tions avail­able com­mer­cial­ly is explod­ing, poten­tial­ly trans­form­ing the way we care for our brains across our entire lifes­pan. Hav­ing a brain…

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Learn more about the 2013 SharpBrains Summit & register today

By SharpBrains | June 10, 2013

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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Welcoming 199 very sharp brains: new Young Global Leaders class

By SharpBrains | March 12, 2013

The World Eco­nom­ic Forum Announces Young Glob­al Lead­ers Class of 2013 (press release): “199 young lead­ers from 70 coun­tries have been hon­oured by the World Eco­nom­ic Forum for their pro­fes­sion­al accom­plish­ments and com­mit­ment to soci­ety. The Young Glob­al Lead­ers (YGL) Class of 2013 is com­posed of hon­ourees from all sec­tors of soci­ety, with

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10 Predictions on How Digital Platforms will Transform Brain Health in 2013

By SharpBrains | January 14, 2013

Just a quick note: we’ll host a webi­nar on Jan­u­ary 30th to dis­cuss key mar­ket pre­dic­tions based on “The Dig­i­tal Brain Health Mar­ket 2012–2020: Web-based, mobile and bio­met­rics-based tech­nol­ogy to assess, mon­i­tor and enhance cog­ni­tion and brain func­tion­ing”, our new mar­ket report. Here are 10 pre­dic­tions, many of which will like­ly be real­ized before the…

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From Anti-Alzheimer’s “Magic Bullets” to True Brain Health

By SharpBrains | May 31, 2012 |

We need a new cul­ture of life­long brain health to empow­er that 80% of the 38,000 adults over 50 sur­veyed in the 2010 AARP Mem­ber Opin­ion Sur­vey who indi­cat­ed “Stay­ing Men­tal­ly Sharp” as their top ranked inter­est and con­cern, not to men­tion youth, work­ers and elders fac­ing cog­ni­tive and emo­tion­al challenges.

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Protect Your Asset by Being Your Own Brain Fitness Coach

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 26, 2012

Last week I had the good for­tune of spend­ing four days in Nue­vo Val­lar­ta, Mex­i­co, with over 300 amaz­ing indi­vid­u­als from 40+ coun­tries who had been named Young Glob­al Lead­ers by the World Eco­nom­ic Forum. The sum­mit agen­da was insight­ful and inspir­ing, con­ver­sa­tions with oth­er par­tic­i­pants always proved to be eye-open­ing and stim­u­lat­ing, and the…

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