Upgrading Education and Health in light of Neuroscience: The Frontier of Gaming?

— We had a great event last Thursday in London to discuss the future of applied neuroscience and gaming. Thank you, Brainbow/ Peak team, for hosting us, and Strategic North for helping promote it! Many insights were shared. Perhaps one of the main take-aways was the significant opportunity at hand to leverage big data in order to personalize and refine brain training methodologies, helping brain training transfer from the training itself into real-world benefits that enhance the user’s personal and professional life. To learn more: Book — The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness: How to Opti­mize Brain Health and Per­for­mance at Any Age Upcoming conference — 2014 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (October 28-30th, 2014) Peak brain training games Event programme: 18 10 — 18 15: Welcome from Jessica Tres at The Brain Tumour Charity 18 15 — 18 25: Open­ing Remarks by Event Chair Prof. Olivier Oul­lier, Pro­fes­sor of Behavioural and Brain Sci­ences at Aix-Marseille Uni­ver­sity and Vice-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Coun­cil on Neu­ro­science and Behaviour. 18 25 — 18 40: Keynote by Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, Sharp­Brains’ CEO & Co-Founder. Alvaro will be intro­duc­ing his lat­est book for the first time in the UK. The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness: How to Opti­mise Brain Health and Per­for­mance at Any Age com­bines a user-friendly tuto­r­ial on how the brain works with evidence-based advice about how t...
Source: SharpBrains - Category: Neurologists Authors: Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Education & Lifelong Learning Health & Wellness behaviour Brain-Training brain-training-games Brainbow Gaming Neurogaming Peak World-Economic-Forum Source Type: blogs