News: 12 Finalists named to take part in the Brainnovations Pitch Contest (December 6th, 2017)
Proud and excited to announce the 12 groundbreaking startups that will get to pitch their idea and solutions at the Brainnovations Pitch Contest on December 6th, hosted during Day 2 of the 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (December 5-7th).
These are the 12 selected Finalists, together with their summary elevator pitch. Please join us in celebrating their work so far and in wishing them all the best at the pitch contest!
Finalists for Top Brainnovation to measure Brain Health & Performance
Savonix (USA): “The Savonix Mobile platform has truly revolutionized access to cognitive data and is pois...
Source: SharpBrains - November 6, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Alvaro Fernandez Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Professional Development Technology AUGMENTx Beam Riders brain-enhancement Brain-health Click Therapeutics HealthTech Connex MyCognition MyndYou NeuraMetrix Sapien Labs Savonix Sincrol Source Type: blogs
Are Federal Prosecutors Above the Law?
There is no more powerful person in the federal legal system than the federal prosecutor. Charging decisions and plea bargains effectively remove judges and juries from decisionmaking in most cases, and electing to fight a prosecutor rather than take the plea bargain most often results in dramatically longer sentences. This is how our system operates, and even if all the prosecutors are acting lawfully, defendants are at a massive disadvantage.But what if the prosecutor cheats a system that ’s already rigged in his favor?This is not a hypothetical question. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has proven itself incapable...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 31, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Jonathan Blanks Source Type: blogs
Reminder: Last 12 hours to submit pitches to the Brainnovations Pitch Contest!
This is the Brainnovations Judging Panel…our very own “Sharp Tank”
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A quick reminder that the Brainnovations Pitch Contest is accepting submissions until today, October 31st, 11 PM US Pacific Standard Time. We are looking for startups worldwide, founded no earlier than 2012, for-profit or non-profit, working on ways to harness brain research and emerging technologies to help every person thrive in the digital age.
Startups: Please submit your idea and pitch your solution in front of our expert Judges and 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit participants for a chance to get valuable fee...
Source: SharpBrains - October 31, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Technology brain-research Brainnovations digital age neurotechnologies Neurotechnology Pitch Contest startups Source Type: blogs
Reminder: Last days to submit pitches to the Brainnovations Pitch Contest!
This is the Brainnovations Judging Panel…our very own “Sharp Tank”
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Just a quick reminder that the Brainnovations Pitch Contest is accepting submissions until October 31st, 11 PM US Pacific Standard Time. We are looking for startups worldwide, founded no earlier than 2012, for-profit or non-profit, working on ways to harness brain research and emerging technologies to help every human being thrive in the digital age.
Startups: Please submit your idea and pitch your solution in front of our expert Judges and 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit participants for a...
Source: SharpBrains - October 25, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Education & Lifelong Learning Health & Wellness Technology brain-research Brainnovations digital age neurotechnologies Neurotechnology Pitch Contest startups Source Type: blogs
The President ’s Executive Order: Less Than Meets The Eye?
The executive order (EO) signed by President Donald Trump on October 12 directs the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor, and Treasury to develop federal regulations that could allow new and less expensive health insurance options for employers and consumers.
The EO marks a shift in the administration’s strategy on health care. After failing to get legislation through Congress to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the administration is now attempting to move away from the ACA’s heavily-regulated markets through changes that can be implemented without a change in the law.
The executive or...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - October 20, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Joseph Antos and James Capretta Tags: Following the ACA Insurance and Coverage association health plans health reimbursement arrangements short term limited duration insurance Source Type: blogs
Trump Executive Order Expands Opportunities For Healthier People To Exit ACA
On October 12, 2017, President Donald Trump issued an executive order concerning health care coverage. The White House also posted two summaries of the order. If carried into action, the provisions of the executive order would likely siphon healthy people from of the Affordable Care Act-compliant market, continuing a pattern of regulatory actions under the Trump administration that have undermined the ACA.
The executive order has several main components. First, it calls generally for expanding competition and choice in health care markets and for improving the information available to consumers while reducing reporting bur...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - October 12, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Timothy Jost Tags: Following the ACA Insurance and Coverage 21st Century Cures Act association health plans health reimbursement arrangement short-term limited duration plans Source Type: blogs
Meet 40 Experts and Innovators shaping Brain Health & Enhancement on December 5-7th, at the 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit
We are proud to announce these 40 confirmed Summit Speakers, Chairs and Judges at the 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit on December 5-7th. What an incredible brain trust shaping the future of brain health and enhancement!
Here are just a few:
Dr. Adam Gazzaley, Professor of Neurology and Founding Director of Neuroscape at UCSF
Dr. Gazzaley is a faculty member in the Neurology, Physiology and Psychiatry departments, and Director of a cognitive neuroscience laboratory conducting research on the neural mechanisms of attention and memory. Dr. Gazzaley is also co-founder and Chief Science Advisor of Akili Inte...
Source: SharpBrains - October 11, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Technology Adam Gazzaley Adam Haim alexandra morehouse Alison Fenney alvaro-fernandez Banner Health brain-enhancement Brain-health Neurotechnology NIMH NIO sharpbrains UCSF Source Type: blogs
8 Tips on How to Live a Meaningful Life
You're reading 8 Tips on How to Live a Meaningful Life, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.
We all want to live a meaningful life since after all, we only have one chance at doing this. Happiness and fulfillment is much more attractive than emptiness, which makes living a life with some kind of meaning one of the widest held goals in the world.
People measure their success in terms of meaningful actions. You will find that everyone is obsessed with life meaning – starting from philosophers and scientists to...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - October 7, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jade Tags: happiness meditation motivation self confidence self improvement best motivation blog find meaning inspiration meaningful life pickthebrain Source Type: blogs
Clean your computer
There are lots of programs out there that purport to clean up your computer, removing temporary files, logs, installation residues and the like. Among the best was one that goes by the name of CCleaner. It’s been a useful tool over the years and I used to use it a lot. But, a few years ago I switched to Moo0 Disk Cleaner, which basically does the same job, freeing up hundreds of megabytes, if not a gigabyte or two of space on your PC with a click or two.
Nevertheless, CCleaner probably remains the more well known of the pair. But, I just heard that CCleaner was targeted by hackers and a lot of people who downloaded u...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - October 6, 2017 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs
The Strange Official Economics of Interest on Excess Reserves
In a note tomy last post, I observed thatLiberty Street Economics,the blog of Federal Reserve Bank of New York, promised a follow-up to its post addressingthe advantages of the Fed ’s interest payments onrequired reserves. The follow up would address the benefits of paying interest on banks ’excess reserves and of thereby establishing a “reserve-abundant regime.”That follow-up post has since appeared, under the title “Why Pay Interest on Excess Reserve Balances?” As I’d anticipated, it answers the question it poses by outlining some supposed benefits of having banks sit on immense piles of cash, without so mu...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 3, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
New Graham-Cassidy Draft: States With Hold-Out GOP Senators Favored, Potential Higher Costs Remain For Those With Preexisting Conditions
Late on the night of Sunday, September 25, 2017—only 72 hours before a final vote on the bill is expected–a new version of the Graham-Cassidy bill was released. Although much of the bill is the same as the draft released earlier, there are significant changes. On initial review, these seem to be aimed primarily at two purposes:
undergirding the argument of the bill’s sponsors that it does not exclude coverage for people with preexisting conditions and,
substantially increasing funding for states represented by some of the GOP Senators who have expressed concerns about the bill.
This post analyzes the non-Medica...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - September 25, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Timothy Jost Tags: Costs and Spending Featured Following the ACA Insurance and Coverage Source Type: blogs
Psychology Around the Net: September 23, 2017
Don’t let the picture fool you! If you’re dealing with depression, you might want to cut back on counting sheep and take a look at what sleep deprivation can do to help your moods (says some research).
Also, keep going for a look at how psychology training might benefit entrepreneurs more than business training, why getting angry every now and then is a good thing, the psychology behind paying so much money for an iPhone (or any product you don’t expect to cost that much), and more.
Sleep Deprivation Might Be the Antidote for Depression: Well, this is…anything but snooze worthy. According to an ana...
Source: World of Psychology - September 23, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alicia Sparks Tags: Anger Depression Disorders Industrial and Workplace Money and Financial Movie Review Psychology Psychology Around the Net Research Schizophrenia Sleep business Elizabeth Blue Iphone Mental Illness Motivation Psychological R Source Type: blogs
Announcement: The Brainnovations Pitch Contest is Accepting Submissions!
The Brainnovations Pitch Contest just started accepting submissions from startups worldwide working on ways to harness brain research and emerging technologies to help every human being thrive in the digital age.
Startups: Please submit your idea and pitch your solution in front of our expert Judges and 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit participants for a chance to get feedback, boost industry recognition, meet like-minded pioneers and win a prize package that could give a boost to your venture and solution.
Who Should Apply
The competition is open to every startup in the space that meets the following criteria:
Has been op...
Source: SharpBrains - September 21, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Education & Lifelong Learning Health & Wellness Peak Performance Technology brain-research Brainnovations digital age Pitch Contest technologies Source Type: blogs
HELP Committee Holds Hearing on Individual Health Insurance Market
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee recently held the first hearing of several about ways to stabilize premiums and help individuals in the individual insurance market. The Committee heard from five different state insurance commissioners regarding their experiences with the individual insurance marketplaces under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Most of the testimony focused on the need to fund cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments, increase flexibility under the ACA’s section 1332 waiver program and establish a federal reinsurance program. There was bipartisan interest in stabili...
Source: Policy and Medicine - September 15, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
Helping Small Businesses Deal With Cyber Threats
Small businesses are especially vulnerable to cyber threats. What can be done to allow small businesses the security to continue to prosper, while at the same time enhancing America ' s cybersecurity workforce and making the economy more secure? (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - September 15, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Quentin Hodgson Source Type: blogs
