emWave in Golf Digest
We often talk about how stress management is as important as cognitive training for brain fitness. We have also seen how traders can improve their performance by learning how to manage emotions of...
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Closing the Circuit: Helen Mayberg’s research could revolutionize depression...
Not a day goes by without a significant depression-related announcement. Yesterday, one could read that Older Women More Likely to Suffer Depression (than Older Men; in the Washington Post). Today, we...
View ArticleNeuroscience Q&A: Encephalon #52
Chris hosts a superb edition of Encephalon, presenting the articles as an engaging and pretty comprehensive Q&A session. If you want to read the answers, to the questions below, by some of the best...
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New Interview Series (Part 1 of 10): Why Care About Brain Fitness Innovation?
Every Monday during the next 10 weeks we’ll discuss here what leading industry, science and policy experts –all of whom will speak at the upcoming 2011 SharpBrains Summit (March 30th — April 1st,...
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Announcing Sponsors and Partners: 2011 SharpBrains Summit
We are honored to announce the following Sponsors and Partners of the upcoming 2011 SharpBrains Summit: Retooling Brain Health for the 21st Century (March 30th — April 1st, 2011). And we are looking...
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Combining non-invasive brain stimulation with cognitive training to treat...
Israeli medical device offers new Alzheimer’s treatment (Reuters): “According to Alvaro Pascual-Leone, director of the hospital’s Berenson-Allen Centre for Non-invasive Brain Stimulation, brain...
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Update: New brain science leads to new tools and to new thinking
We often view memory, thinking, emotions, as completely separate entities, but they truly are part of the same process. So, if we want to improve brain health, we need to pay attention to the “weak...
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Cognitive enhancement in the future: electric brain stimulation plus...
Electrical Brain Stimulation Helps People Learn Math Faster (Wired): “…scientists stimulated volunteers’ brains with mild electric current while they learned new arithmetic operations based on made-up...
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Good survey of brain stimulation methods, value and limitations
Stimulating the Brain: From If to How (The Dana Foundation): “Recent years have brought modern methods of brain stimulation into the mainstream of neurology and psychiatry. But their mechanism—how...
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Finalists announced for global neurotechnology prize
Finalists Announced for Israel Brain Technologies’ Million Dollar Global B.R.A.I.N. Prize (press release): “Israel Brain Technologies (IBT) has announced the ten finalists for its $1 million Global...
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Can electricity-based brain stimulation harness neuroplasticity safely?
DIY Brain Stimulation Raises Concerns (Medscape Today): “Recent increased interest in the electricity-based brain stimulation method of transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS) as a means of...
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New Summit Partner: The Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain...
Happy to announce a new Partner for the 2013 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (September 19-20th). The Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation (CNBS) at Beth Israel Deaconess...
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From Drugs to Brain Training: The Future of Brain Health?
Brain Training And The End Of The Prozac Generation (Forbes): “According to the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH), more than 57 million people, or 26% of the U.S. population suffer from some...
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Study: For cognitive training to work, it must induce neuroplasticity in...
Over the last several years, cognitive training has received large amounts of public interest and support because reliably improving cognitive performance would have wide reaching applications in...
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To delay dementia, try challenging (vs. routine) brain stimulation…up to a point
Brain games that could pay off in retirement (MarketWatch): “Cognitive aging is the biggest health crisis in our country,” said Denise C. Park…the monetary cost of dementia in the U.S. tops $157...
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Start-up Thync raises $13 million to market transcranial stimulation via...
— Thync gets $13 million to send electric currents to your brain (SFGate): “Thync, a Los Gatos startup, is working on a wearable that’s a little different from most: it would send fine electric...
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Focused ultrasound as emerging method of non-invasive neurotechnology
Sound Waves Can Heal Brain Disorders (Scientific American): “…Physicians are also considering high-intensity focused ultrasound as an alternative to brain surgery. Patients with movement disorders such...
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10 Ways To Improve Health & Well-being Based On Latest Non-Invasive...
— Last month I had the fortune to join over 1,900 pioneers from 90 countries at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Tianjin, China, to discuss how innovation can improve the state of the...
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Non-invasive brain stimulation meets nanotechnology
. MIT Researchers Develop Wireless, Noninvasive Deep Brain Stimulation Approach (Med Device online): “Scientists have introduced a novel method of administering brain stimulation that requires no...
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Growing awareness of the opportunities and risks posed by pharmacological...
. More research needed on use of ‘smart drugs’ by healthy people (Medical News): “Drugs such as methylphenidate and modafinil, marketed as Ritalin and Provigil respectively, are used by some healthy...
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