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Update: Harness Neuroplasticity with Enthusiasm, Exercise & Personalized Medicine

February 28, 2012 by Alvaro Fernandez

Time for Sharp­Brains’ Feb­ru­ary 2012 eNewslet­ter, fea­tur­ing in this occa­sion mul­ti­ple and com­ple­men­tary per­spec­tives on how to har­ness neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty: with enthu­si­asm, BOTH phys­i­cal AND cog­ni­tive exer­cise, and (once tools become bet­ter stan­dard­ized and wide­ly avail­able) brain-based per­son­al­ized medicine.

Fea­tured Per­spec­tives:

  • To Har­ness Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty, Start with Enthu­si­asm, by Dr. Hele­na Popovic
  • Q&A with Dr. Yaakov Stern on Brain Reserve, Exer­cise, Cog­ni­tive Train­ing, Angry Birds, YMCA and more
  • 3‑part series writ­ten by Dr. Evian Gor­don to sum­ma­rize and build on the Per­son­al­ized Med­i­cine World Con­gress 2012:
    1. The State of Per­son­al­ized Med­i­cine: The Role of Biomarkers
    2. Per­son­al­ized Med­i­cine in Psy­chi­a­try: from DSM to brain-based RDoC, iSPOT‑D and biomarkers
    3. Work­ing with Health­care Stake­hold­ers towards Brain-Based Per­son­al­ized Medicine
  • To Be (Your Con­nec­tome), or Not to Be (Your Genome), by Dr. Sebas­t­ian Seung
  • Enhance Metacog­ni­tion and Prob­lem-Solv­ing by Talk­ing Out Loud to Your­self, by Dr. Judith Tingley
  • Final Meet­ing Report @ 2011 Sharp­Brains Sum­mit: Retool­ing Brain Health for the 21st Cen­tu­ry, by Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, Dr. Luc Beau­doin, Muki Hansteen-Izo­ra, Mar­garet Mor­ris, Dr. Joshua Stein­er­man, Dr. Peter Whitehouse.
  • (Want to con­tribute arti­cles like these? Learn details here)

What’s New and Mean­ing­ful:

  • Learn­ing to Cope with Google/ Infor­ma­tion Overload
  • An Emerg­ing Era of Big Data (in Men­tal Health too)
  • When and Why Should Dri­vers with Cog­ni­tive Impair­ment Stop Driving
  • Diag­nos­ing ear­ly Alzheimer’s and Mild Cog­ni­tive Impairment
  • Glob­al Pop­u­la­tion Age­ing: Per­il or Promise? (New WEF eBook)
  • Luria Con­gress on Mod­ern Neuropsychology

Sharp­Brains News:

  • Syl­labus for online course, How to Be Your Own Brain Fit­ness Coach (starts March 7th)
  • Save The Date (June 7–8th, 2012), 28 Con­firmed Speak­ers: 2012 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit — Opti­miz­ing Health through Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty & Dig­i­tal Innovation

Final­ly, let us men­tion that Brain Aware­ness Week is approach­ing (March 12–18th, 2012), and that you can now add com­ments to Sharp­Brains arti­cles via Face­book (see below). Look­ing for­ward to a great month of March!

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, SharpBrains Monthly eNewsletter Tagged With: Alzheimers, biomarkers, Brain-Fitness, brain-reserve, Cognitive-impairment, Cognitive-Training, Connectome, DSM, genome, iSPOT-D, Luria, Mental-Health, metacognition, neuroplasticity, Neuropsychology, RDoC, Yaakov-Stern

Study: Cognitive Markers or Biomarkers to manage Cognitive Health across the Lifespan?

September 12, 2011 by SharpBrains

Pre­dict­ing Alzheimer’s Dis­ease More Accu­rate Through Cog­ni­tive Changes Than Bio­mark­ers (Med­ical News):

  • “Mea­sur­ing peo­ple’s changes in cog­ni­tive abil­i­ties is a bet­ter pre­dic­tor of Alzheimer’s dis­ease than changes in bio­mark­ers, researchers from the Ben­i­to Men­ni Com­plex Assis­ten­cial en Salut Men­tal, Barcelona, Spain, report­ed in Archives of Gen­er­al Psy­chi­a­try, a JAMA journal.”
  • “The inves­ti­ga­tors used a range of tests to assess [Read more…] about Study: Cog­ni­tive Mark­ers or Bio­mark­ers to man­age Cog­ni­tive Health across the Lifespan?

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: ADNI, Alzheimers-disease, awareness, barcelona, Benito Menni Complex Assistencial en Salut Mental, biomarkers, blood samples, Brain-health, brain-volume, cerebrospinal fluid, cognition, cognitive health monitoring, cognitive markers, cognitive monitoring, cognitive-performance, cognitive-reserve, Cognitive-tests, CogState, Colum­bia University, cortical-thickness, David Darby, delayed memory, JAMA, Jef­frey Kaye, magnetic resonance imaging, MCI, Orcatech, perception, reasoning and judgment, Yaakov-Stern

Full Recordings Available Now: 2011 SharpBrains Summit

August 31, 2011 by Alvaro Fernandez

We are pleased to announce that full record­ings for all pre­sen­ta­tions deliv­ered dur­ing the 2011 Sharp­Brains Sum­mit: Retool­ing Brain Health for the 21st Cen­tu­ry (March 30 — April 1, 2011) are now avail­able both to Sum­mit Par­tic­i­pants and to non-Participants.

You can Learn More Here and Access 40+ Talks and 20+ hours of up-to-date infor­ma­tion and analy­sis of brain sci­ence, tech­nol­o­gy and inno­va­tion, deliv­ered by noth­ing short of a world-class faculty.

–> Reg­is­tered Sum­mit Par­tic­i­pants can access all Ses­sion Record­ings by click­ing on the ses­sion titles in the Agen­da page and using the same User­name and Pass­word they used to par­tic­i­pate in the Summit.

–> Did­n’t Reg­is­ter to Par­tic­i­pate in the 2011 Sharp­Brains Sum­mit but want to access all Ses­sion Record­ings (20+ hours, 40+ speak­ers) Now? You can secure your log-in here.

We hope the infor­ma­tion and analy­sis pro­vid­ed by these 40+ world-class speak­ers address­ing this 3‑day agen­da pro­vide excel­lent val­ue to you: [Read more…] about Full Record­ings Avail­able Now: 2011 Sharp­Brains Summit

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: 2011 SharpBrains Summit, Adam Gaz­za­ley, Alexan­dra More­house, Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, Alvaro-Pascual-Leone, Bev­erly San­born, Brenda Dann-Messier, Car­los Rodriguez, Cary Cooper, Daphne Bave­lier, David Darby, Dharma-Singh-Khalsa, Evian Gor­don, Gary-Small, Henry Mah­ncke, James Gior­dano, Jef­frey Kaye, Jerri-Edwards, Joe Hardy, John Rep­pas, Jonas Jendi, Joshua Stein­er­man, Kate Sul­li­van, Kath­leen Herath, Keith Wesnes, Ken Gib­son, Ken­neth Kosik, Lena Perel­man, Lind­say Gask­ins, Lisa Schooner­man, Mar­garet Mor­ris, Martha Farah, Michael Valen­zuela, Michael-Merzenich, Molly Wag­ster, Muki Hansteen-Izora, Nigel Smith, Patty Pur­pur, Paula Psyl­lakis, Peter Reiner, recordings, Robin-Klaus, SharpBrains Summit, Sophia Vino­gradov, summit, summit recordings, Thomas M. War­den, Tracy Pack­iam Alloway, Veronika Litin­ski, Wal­ter Green­leaf, William Reich­man, Yaakov-Stern

Intel Corporation and Lumos Labs Become Gold Sponsors of 2011 SharpBrains Summit

March 22, 2011 by Alvaro Fernandez

We are pleased to make eleven impor­tant announce­ments about the upcom­ing 2011 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit…eleven addi­tion­al rea­sons to con­sid­er reg­is­ter­ing and join­ing our event and com­mu­ni­ty next week.

  1. Intel Cor­po­ra­tion, the “Spon­sors of Tomor­row™”, and Lumos Labs have become Sum­mit Gold Sponsors.
  2. Sharp­Brains will issue a Cer­tifi­cate of Atten­dance to par­tic­i­pants (20 hours of con­tin­u­ing education).
  3. Jamie Wil­son shares 20 rea­sons why vir­tu­al con­fer­ences are the future.
  4. NIH/ NIA Pro­gram Chief Mol­ly Wag­ster will dis­cuss the new NIH Tool­box for Assess­ment of Neu­ro­log­i­cal and Behav­ioral Function.
  5. Yaakov Stern (Colum­bia), David Dar­by (CogState), Kei­th Wesnes (Unit­ed BioSource) and Jef­frey Kaye (Orcat­e­ch) will explore The Role of Cog­ni­tive Health Mon­i­tor­ing Systems.
  6. Alvaro Fer­nan­dez (Sharp­Brains) and Muki Hansteen-Izo­ra (Intel Cor­po­ra­tion) will ana­lyze The State of Inno­va­tion and Emerg­ing Marketplace.
  7. You can still Reg­is­ter and obtain a com­pli­men­ta­ry copy of Sharp­Brains’ mar­ket report The State of the Brain Fit­ness Mar­ket 2010 (which includes mar­ket data, ven­dor analy­sis, inno­va­tion case stud­ies, research briefs, and more.)
  8. Michael Merzenich (UCSF), Alvaro Pas­cual-Leone (Har­vard), Wal­ter Green­leaf (Vir­tu­ally­Bet­ter) and Kate Sul­li­van (Wal­ter Reed) will dis­cuss how Inno­va­tion gets From Lab to Marketplace.
  9. Lumos Labs, Brain Resource, Cogmed, Bay­crest, Cog­niFit, and Posit Sci­ence will present their lat­est tools and solu­tions dur­ing Expo Day.
  10. A total of 19 excel­lent Sum­mit Part­ners help us expand Sum­mit’s reach and influence.
  11. We are plan­ning April/ May social gath­er­ings for Sum­mit par­tic­i­pants in 5 cities: San Fran­cis­co, Los Ange­les, Wash­ing­ton DC, NYC, and Toron­to, and will help facil­i­tate gath­er­ings in any city/ region with at least 10 Sum­mit participants.

Please vis­it the 2011 Sharp­Brains Sum­mit web­site to Learn More and Reg­is­ter.

Also, please fol­low us via Twit­ter and spread the word about the Sum­mit using hash­tag #svs11

We look for­ward to “meet­ing” many of you next week! Please remem­ber you can enter dis­count code sharp2011 in order to get 15% off reg­is­tra­tion fees.

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: #svs11, Alvaro-Pascual-Leone, Baycrest, Brain-Resource, CEUs, cogmed, cognifit, cognitive health monitoring, cognitive-health, CogState, continuing education, David Darby, innovation, Intel, Intel Corporation, Jeffrey Kaye, Kate Sullivan, Keith Wesnes, los angeles, lumos-labs, market-report, marketplace, Michael-Merzenich, Molly-Wagster, monitoring, Muki Hansteen-Izora, NIA, NIH, NIH-toolbox, NYC, Orcatech, Posit-Science, san-francisco, SharpBrains Summit, Sponsors of Tomorrow, summit, Toronto, Twitter, United-BioSource, virtual event, VirtuallyBetter, Walter Greenleaf, Walter Reed, Washington DC, Yaakov-Stern

Pooling data to accelerate Alzheimer’s research

August 13, 2010 by Alvaro Fernandez

Very inter­est­ing arti­cle in the New York Times on the rea­sons behind grow­ing research of how to detect Alzheimer’s Dis­ease: Rare Shar­ing of Data Leads to Progress on Alzheimer’s (New York Times) 

(Sit­u­a­tion before) Sci­en­tists were look­ing for bio­mark­ers, but they were not get­ting very far. “The prob­lem in the field was that you had many dif­fer­ent sci­en­tists in many dif­fer­ent uni­ver­si­ties doing their own research with their own patients and with their own meth­ods,” said Dr. Michael W. Wein­er of the San Fran­cis­co Depart­ment of Vet­er­ans Affairs, who directs ADNI. “Dif­fer­ent peo­ple using dif­fer­ent meth­ods on dif­fer­ent sub­jects in dif­fer­ent places were get­ting dif­fer­ent results, which is not sur­pris­ing. What was need­ed was to get every­one togeth­er and to get a com­mon data set.”

(Sit­u­a­tion now) Com­pa­nies as well as aca­d­e­m­ic researchers are using the data. There have been more than 3,200 down­loads of the entire mas­sive data set and almost a mil­lion down­loads of the data sets con­tain­ing images from brain scans.

Com­ment: as dis­cussed in our recent mar­ket report, we’ll prob­a­bly see soon­er rather than lat­er a com­pa­ra­ble effort aimed at find­ing the bio­log­i­cal and or cog­ni­tive mark­ers for the Cog­ni­tive Reserve, the emerg­ing cor­ner­stone for a life­long men­tal well­ness (vs. a dis­ease-spe­cif­ic) approach. For more on the need to stan­dard­ize data and care, read inter­view with Patrick Dono­hue on Rein­vent­ing Brain Care through Pol­i­cy, Stan­dards, Tech­nol­o­gy. For more on the Cog­ni­tive Reserve, read inter­view with Dr. Yaakov Stern.

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Alzheimers, Alzheimers-research, biomarkers, cognitive-reserve, data, lifelong, lifelong mental wellness, markers, mental-wellness, standards, Yaakov-Stern

Invitation to SharpBrains Summit — Technology for Cognitive Health and Performance

November 10, 2009 by Alvaro Fernandez

We are excit­ed to invite you to the first vir­tu­al, glob­al Sharp­Brains Sum­mit (Jan­u­ary 18–20th, 2010). The Sharp­Brains Sum­mit will fea­ture a sharpbrains_summit_logo_webdream team of over 25 speak­ers who are lead­ers in indus­try and research from 7 coun­tries, to dis­cuss emerg­ing research, tools and best prac­tices for cog­ni­tive health and per­for­mance. This inau­gur­al event will expose health and insur­ance providers, devel­op­ers, inno­va­tors at For­tune 500 com­pa­nies, investors and researchers, to the oppor­tu­ni­ties, part­ner­ships, trends, and stan­dards of the rapid­ly evolv­ing cog­ni­tive fit­ness field.

Reg­is­ter Today

Learn more and reg­is­ter Here today, at dis­count­ed ear­ly-bird rates, to receive these benefits:

  • Learn: Full access to all Con­fer­ence live ses­sions, and Down­load­able Record­ings and Handouts
  • See: lat­est tech­nolo­gies and prod­ucts dur­ing Expo Day
  • Con­nect and Dis­cuss: become a mem­ber of the Sharp­Brains Net­work for Brain Fit­ness Inno­va­tion (mem­bers-only LinkedIn Group) through the end of 2010, access online chats dur­ing the sum­mit, meet oth­er reg­is­trants in your city
  • Under­stand the Big Pic­ture: access 10 Research Exec­u­tive Briefs pre­pared by lead­ing scientists

On top of those ear­ly-bird dis­counts, we offer an addi­tion­al 15% dis­count for Sharp­Brains read­ers who want Reg­u­lar Admis­sion. Dis­count code: sharp2010. You can reg­is­ter Here.

Agenda/ Speak­ers

Monday, January 18th, 2010:

(Pre­lim­i­nary sched­ule, US Pacif­ic Time)

8–9.15am. Cog­ni­tion & Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty: The New Health­care Frontier

  • Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, SharpBrains
  • David White­house, OptumHealth Behav­ioral Solutions
  • William Reich­man, Baycrest
  • P Murali Doraiswamy, Duke University

9.30–11am. Tools for Safer Dri­ving: The Oppor­tu­ni­ty with Teenagers and Adults

  • Steven Aldrich, Posit Science
  • Shlo­mo Breznitz, CogniFit
  • Jer­ri Edwards, Uni­ver­si­ty of South Florida
  • Peter Chris­tian­son, Young Dri­vers of Canada

Noon‑1.30pm. Baby Boomers and Beyond: Main­tain­ing Cog­ni­tive Vitality

  • Kunal Sarkar, Lumos Labs
  • Eliz­a­beth Zelin­s­ki, USC Davis School of Geron­tol­ogy [Read more…] about Invi­ta­tion to Sharp­Brains Sum­mit — Tech­nol­o­gy for Cog­ni­tive Health and Performance

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Filed Under: Attention & ADD/ADHD, Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Adam Gazzaley, Albert “Skip” Rizzo, Albert-Einstein-College-of-Medicine, alvaro-fernandez, Attention Control Systems, baby-boomers, Baycrest, brain fitness summit, Brain-Resource, Center for Technology and Aging, cogmed, cognifit, cognitive health assessments, cognitive technology, cognitive-health, cognitive-performance, cognitive-vitality, Columbia-University, Dakim, Dan-Michel, David Whitehouse, Duke-University, EDGE Innovation Network, Elizabeth-Zelinski, Elkhonon-Goldberg, emotional health assessments, Evian-Gordon, Games-for-Health, H-STAR, happyneuron, Holly Jimison, home health, Jerri-Edwards, Jesse Wright, Jonas Jendi, Joshua-Steinerman, Karolinska-Institute, Keith Wesnes, Kenneth Kosik, Kunal-Sarkar, Lisa Schoonerman, lumos-labs, MaRS Venture Group, MediaX, medical home, medicine, Michael-Merzenich, Michel Noir, Misha-Pavel, Montefiore-Medical-Center, neurocognition, Neuropsychology, neuroscience, Neurotechnology-Industry-Organization, NIO, Norwest-Venture-Partners, OHSU, OptumHealth Behavioral Solutions, Oregon Health & Science University, P Murali Doraiswamy, Peter-Christianson, Posit-Science, Public-Health-Institute, Richard Levinson, SCAN Foundation, scientific-brain-training, Serious Games Initiative, sharpbrains, SharpBrains Summit, Shlomo-Breznitz, Stanford MediaX, Steven Aldrich, technology, Tim-Chang, Torkel-Klingberg, UC Santa Barbara, UCSF, United-BioSource-Corporation, University of Louisville, University of South Florida, USC, USC Davis School of Gerontology, Veronika Litinski, vibrantbrains, William-Reichman, Yaakov-Stern, Young-Drivers-of-Canada

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