How to harness videogames and big data to personalize cognitive training

By SharpBrains | September 8, 2014

— That will be the focus of the sec­ond ses­sion at the 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Octo­ber 28–30th, 2014). We hope you can join us! How to har­ness videogames and big data to deliv­er per­son­al­ized cog­ni­tive train­ing Dr. Joe Hardy, ?VP of R&D at Lumos Labs Dr. Daphne Bave­lier, Head of the Bave­lier Brain & Learn­ing Lab at the University…

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Meet these 25+ Summit Speakers at the forefront of Brain, Health and Innovation

By SharpBrains | August 26, 2014

We are proud to share the world-class and expand­ing ros­ter of experts and inno­va­tors who will speak at the upcom­ing 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Octo­ber 28–30th, 2014). Please check out their spec­tac­u­lar bios, the pre­lim­i­nary agen­da, and con­sid­er join­ing us! As of today, we are count­ing on: Dr. Adam Gaz­za­ley, Direc­tor of the Neu­ro­science Imag­ing Cen­ter at the…

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National Neurotechnology Initiative

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 31, 2008 |

Zack Lynch asks for sup­port to Write Con­gress Today in Sup­port of the Nation­al Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy Ini­tia­tive Act, explain­ing: “With the recent intro­duc­tion of the Nation­al Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy Ini­tia­tive (NNTI) Act in the House (H.R. 5989) and the Sen­ate (S.2989) ear­li­er this month, the time has come to ramp up a nation­al grass­roots cam­paign in sup­port of…

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Brain Training Games: Context, Trends, Questions

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 15, 2008 |

A spate of recent news cov­er­age on brain fit­ness and “brain train­ing” reflects a grow­ing inter­est in nat­ur­al, non-drug-based inter­ven­tions to keep our brains sharp as we age. This inter­est is very time­ly, giv­en the aging pop­u­la­tion, increas­ing Alzheimer’s rates, and soar­ing health care costs that place more empha­sis than ever on pre­ven­tion and changing…

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The Emerging Brain Fitness Software Market: Building Better Brains

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 24, 2008 |

This is an event you may be inter­est­ed in, if you are based in the San Fran­cis­co Bay Area. The MIT Club of North­ern Cal­i­for­nia, Amer­i­can Soci­ety on Aging, The Busi­ness Forum on Aging and Smart­Sil­vers presents: The Emerg­ing Brain Fit­ness Mar­ket:  Build­ing Bet­ter Brains (Con­tact infor­ma­tion and Reg­is­tra­tion Here) Date: 02/12/2008 Tues­day Time: 6:00pm Venue:…

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Creativity, Michael Ray and Motto

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 2, 2007

Mot­to Mag­a­zine brings a great inter­view between Ani­ta Sharpe and Michael Ray, on How To Reach Your High­est Goal. Very fun week­end read­ing mate­r­i­al, includ­ing plen­ty of quotes and reflec­tions on how cre­ativ­i­ty can be trained/ enhanced by one of my favorite Stan­ford MBA pro­fes­sors. Some quotes: “But as the 1980s began, Ray and Myers…

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