• Update: Got Brain? Investing in Our Most Precious Asset in 2013

    Updated: 2012-12-28 15:06:11
    Time for Sharp­Brains’ December 2012 eNewslet­ter, fea­tur­ing the forward-looking article Got Brain? Investing in Our Most Precious Asset in 2013: “Open a week­end New York Times or Wall Street Jour­nal and you’ll find a whole sec­tion with detailed infor­ma­tion and advice for indi­vid­u­als look­ing to invest wisely. What you will not find, how­ever, is com­pa­ra­ble infor­ma­tion and advice for [...]

  • HireLifeScience.com - #CareerUpgradeFriday @ MedImmune Novartis WarnerChilc

    Updated: 2012-12-28 06:38:50
    Link to today's jobs: http://www.hirelifescience.com/seeker_jobs.aspx?q=1&keyword=Any%20job%20title%20or%20keywordSartorius Group North America jobs: http://www.hirelifescience.com/companyjobs.aspx?CompanyId=126Warner Chilcott jobs: http://www.hirelifescience.com/companyjobs.aspx?CompanyId=163Boehringer-Ingelheim jobs: http://www.hirelifescience.com/companyjobs.aspx?CompanyId=106PRA International jobs: http://www.hirelifescience.com/companyjobs.aspx?CompanyId=...

  • Upcoming webinar: The State of the Dig­i­tal Brain Health Mar­ket (Jan­u­ary 17th, 2013)

    Updated: 2012-12-27 20:23:21
    We will discuss the main findings and innovation opportunities/ challenges identified in SharpBrains’ new market report The Dig­i­tal Brain Health Mar­ket 2012–2020: Web-based, mobile and biometrics-based tech­nol­ogy to assess, mon­i­tor and enhance cog­ni­tion and brain functioning. When: Thurs­day, Jan­u­ary 17th, 2013, 1-2pm US East­ern Time (live webinar will be recorded for later viewing by registrants) [...]

  • Training parts of your brain for perceptual enhancement.

    Updated: 2012-12-24 10:30:00
    : . skip to main skip to sidebar Deric Bownds' MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , and behavior as well as random curious stuff Deric s Website HOME DERIC'S MIND BLOG BIOLOGY OF THE MIND BOOK AND COURSE LECTURES AND WRITING DERIC PERSONAL , Piano Performance , Professional , Personal History Twitter Updates FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER EMAIL DERIC MINDBLOG WEB : LECTURES Are you holding your breath Structures of arousal and calm Univ . Wisc . Chaos Seminar Series , May 8, 2012 Making Minds Evolving and Constructing the I Univ . Wisc . Evolution Seminar Series , April 28, 2011 Istanbul Cognitive Neuroscience meeting lecture , May , 2010 : Who wants to know The Nature of our Subjective I INTRODUCTORY WEB : LECTURES The I Illusion The Beast Within MindStuff : A guide for

  • Join brain health Q&A with Dr. Sandra Chapman (January 4th, 2013)

    Updated: 2012-12-21 16:20:37
     We are pleased to announce that Dr. Sandra Chapman, Direc­tor of the Cen­ter for Brain­Health at The Uni­ver­sity of Texas at Dal­las and one of the most thought-provoking speakers at the 2012 SharpBrains Virtual Summit, will be answering questions from SharpBrains readers on January 4th, 2013. When: Friday, January 4th, 2013. 11am-noon US Pacific Time/ 2-3pm [...]

  • Check Out Our Paperbacks Direct Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Online Catalog Psychology Press

    Updated: 2012-12-18 17:42:46
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    Updated: 2012-12-18 17:42:44
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  • Exactly How Do You Collect 12,000 Microbial Samples From a Hospital?

    Updated: 2012-12-17 21:30:14
    Last month I wrote about the Hospital Microbiome project, Jack Gilbert’s ambitious project to catalog the bacterial species growing in the hospital before it opens and monitor how that environment changes after doctors and patients start interacting with it. Over the next two years, he and his team will be collecting more than 12,000 samples [...]

  • Maximizing brain fitness and mental well-being improves both public health and individual quality of life

    Updated: 2012-12-14 17:17:04
     We’re having a good conversation among SharpBrains Summit participants, prompted by the blog post Lifelong brain wellness and performance–not medical disease–drives growing demand for digital brain health solutions. In what is a beautiful example of the need to see both the forest and the trees, first Prof. Bob Bilder, Co-Director of the NIMH-sponsored Center for Intervention Development [...]

  • Drug helps women who stop smoking keep weight off

    Updated: 2012-12-13 18:11:06
    Naltrexone, a medication being tested to help smokers kick the habit also may help avoid the weight gain that is common after quitting but only in women, according to a study published in the December issue of Biological Psychiatry. This is the first medication shown to reduce weight gain for up to one year in [...]

  • Enhancing social ability with brain stimulation.

    Updated: 2012-12-13 10:30:00
    : . skip to main skip to sidebar Deric Bownds' MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , and behavior as well as random curious stuff Deric s Website HOME DERIC'S MIND BLOG BIOLOGY OF THE MIND BOOK AND COURSE LECTURES AND WRITING DERIC PERSONAL , Piano Performance , Professional , Personal History Twitter Updates FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER EMAIL DERIC MINDBLOG WEB : LECTURES Are you holding your breath Structures of arousal and calm Univ . Wisc . Chaos Seminar Series , May 8, 2012 Making Minds Evolving and Constructing the I Univ . Wisc . Evolution Seminar Series , April 28, 2011 Istanbul Cognitive Neuroscience meeting lecture , May , 2010 : Who wants to know The Nature of our Subjective I INTRODUCTORY WEB : LECTURES The I Illusion The Beast Within MindStuff : A guide for

  • Lifelong brain wellness and performance–not medical disease–drives growing demand for digital brain health solutions

    Updated: 2012-12-12 17:05:50
    To Learn More about the report Trans­form­ing Health with Dig­i­tal Tools to Assess, Mon­i­tor and Enhance Cog­ni­tion across the Lifes­pan: The Dig­i­tal Brain Health Mar­ket 2012–2020: Exec­u­tive Sum­mary — Infographic Table of Contents List of Figures

  • Digital Brain Health vs Brain Training vs Brain Games

    Updated: 2012-12-11 17:20:14
    The Digital Brain Health market can be broken down into two main technology segments: Software — refers to fully digital and online applications (accessed via computers, tablets or smartphones) designed to monitor, assess, enhance, or repair neurocognitive functions. Biometrics — refers to applications which require a hardware component to measure a physiological response linked to [...]

  • LabBook December 7, 2012

    Updated: 2012-12-07 21:29:32
    Welcome to LabBook, our weekly roundup of University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences research news from around campus and the world wide web. Each Friday, LabBook will recap the week on the blog, link to news stories about our faculty and studies, and briefly summarize a handful of recent publications by our researchers. THIS [...]

  • 83% decision-makers, early-adopters would take an “annual mental check-up”

    Updated: 2012-12-06 16:01:45
    So the question we asked ourselves as we spent close to a year preparing our latest market report is, which technology platform and which company may successfully develop and commercialize a mainstream assessment, and how will it be integrated into other health/ medical/ wellness assessments and solutions? The other stats are equally revealing. The report contains much more [...]

  • Kovler Diabetes Center Researcher Graeme Bell Wins International Prize

    Updated: 2012-12-05 20:28:17
    Graeme Ian Bell, PhD, the Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics and an investigator in the Kovler Diabetes Center at the University of Chicago, has been awarded the Manpei Suzuki International Prize for 2012 for his pioneering work in understanding the role of genetics in the diagnosis and treatment of diabetes. [...]

  • Congrats, Digital Brain Health pioneers: Brain Resource, CogState, Emotiv, Lumos Labs, Neurosky, and more

    Updated: 2012-12-05 14:44:06
    5 Mar­ket Leaders   Brain Resource CogState Emo­tiv Lumos Labs Neu­roSky 10 Com­pa­nies to Watch in 2013/ 2014 Aten­tiv Incorporated C8 Sci­ences Cam­bridge Cognition Cogmed (Pear­son) Cog­niFit Ltd. Dig­i­tal Artefacts Heart­Math Mar­bles: The Brain Store Posit Sci­ence Corporation Ultra­sis plc Soft­ware / Mobile Companies ACE – Applied Cog­ni­tive Engi­neer­ing Ltd Advanced Brain Technologies Blue Mar­ble Brain [...]

  • A Low-tech Solution to Keep Immunosuppressed Patients Safe

    Updated: 2012-12-04 21:38:36
    See the little green ball in the picture above? That gives doctors and nurses a quick view of which direction the air pressure is flowing in isolation rooms. Patients who have their immune systems suppressed, such as those receiving stem cell or bone marrow transplants, need to be in a room with positive air pressure, [...]

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