100 newly recognized Young Global Leaders train their brains (and others’) by tackling complex challenges with innovative approaches

Meet the 2017 Class of Young Glob­al Lead­ers (World Eco­nom­ic Forum release): “They devel­op gene-edit­ing tech­nol­o­gy, rebuild wartorn nations and much more…Each year the World Eco­nom­ic Forum under­takes an ambi­tious endeav­our – to scour the world to select 100 young lead­ers, under the age of 40, who are tack­ling the world’s most com­plex chal­lenges with…

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121 newly recognized Young Global Leaders train their brains (and others’) by solving important, meaningful and complex problems

Meet the Young, Tech-Savvy, Civic-Mind­ed Inno­va­tors Dri­ving The Fourth Indus­tri­al Rev­o­lu­tion (World Eco­nom­ic Forum press release): “The World Eco­nom­ic Forum announced today 121 sci­en­tists, gov­ern­ment lead­ers, future busi­ness lead­ers, social activists and artists, aged under 40, who are shak­ing up pol­i­cy, soci­ety and the world around them.

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Where Brain Health Meets Digital Health and Big Data

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

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

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

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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