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Alvaro F. Healthy Living Professional

San Francisco, California
Blog: http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog
Alvaro Fernandez is SharpBrains' co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, and has been quoted by The New York Times, Reuters, Associated Press, Congressional Quarterly Researcher, among others. He recently wrote the acclaimed article Brain Health Business Grows With Research and Demand for the... Full Bio
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Dr. Yaakov Stern on What the Cognitive Reserve Means for Brain Health by Alvaro F. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Dr. Stern will discuss the latest evidence and implications on What the Cognitive Reserve Means for Brain Health, at the upcoming  2012 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (June 7- ... Read on »
UCLA Robert Bilder on Crowdsourcing Big Brain Data: The 90% Solution by Alvaro F. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Dr. Bilder will discuss Crowdsourcing Big Brain Data: The 90% Solution, at the upcoming  2012 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (June 7-14th, 2012). Dr. Robert Bilder is the ... Read on »
Dr. Tracy Alloway on Getting From Research to Product: Bringing Reliability and Validity to... by Alvaro F. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Dr. Alloway will discuss Getting From Research to Product: Bringing Reliability and Validity to Commercial Ventures, at the upcoming  2012 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (June ... Read on »
Dr. Sandra Chapman on Brainomics: How Big Data Provides Gateway to Maximize Human Cognitive... by Alvaro F. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Dr. Chapman will discuss Brainomics: How Big Data Provides Gateway to Maximize Human Cognitive Performance, at the upcoming  2012 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (June 7-14th, ... Read on »
Walter Reed’s Kate Sullivan on How to Set Up a Brain Fit­ness Cen­ter to Enhance... by Alvaro F. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Kate Sullivan will run an educational workshop on  How to Set Up a Brain Fit­ness Cen­ter to Enhance Cog­ni­tive Retrain­ing and Reha­bil­i­ta­tion, at the upcoming  2012 ... Read on »
Dr. C. Shawn Green on Training Conditions For Video Games to Result in Real Brain-based Benefits by Alvaro F. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Dr. Green will discuss the Training Conditions For Video Games to Result in Real Brain-based Benefits, at the upcoming  2012 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (June 7-14th, 2012) ... Read on »
Is There a Formula for Smart Thinking? by Alvaro F. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health One day, one of my kids was staring at a simple circuit diagram. It showed a battery connected to a resistor and a light bulb. He was doing a homework problem. The parti ... Read on »
Lindsay Gaskins on What Brain Games Consumers Buy and Why by Alvaro F. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health The CEO of Mar­bles: The Brain Store will provide an overview of What Brain Games Consumers Buy (in Marbles’ stores) and Why, at the upcoming  2012 SharpBrains Virtual Sum ... Read on »
Dr. Michael Posner on Developing Brain Networks and Self-Control by Alvaro F. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Dr. Posner will provide an update on latest research and applications to develop brain networks and self-control, at the upcoming  2012 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (June 7- ... Read on »
Sharon Begley to Moderate Session: How will Health incor­po­rate Brain? by Alvaro F. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Sharon Begley, well-known science reporter and bestseller author, will moderate a session at the upcom­ing  2012 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit  (June 7-14th, 2012): How wi ... Read on »
Peter Kissinger on Brain Retraining for U.S. Drivers by Alvaro F. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health The President of the AAA Foun­da­tion for Traf­fic Safety will provide an update on Brain Retraining for U.S. Drivers, at the upcoming  2012 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (Ju ... Read on »
Dr. Sheryl Flynn on Getting Evidence-Based Rehab Video Games Into the Hands of Users by Alvaro F. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Dr. Flynn will discuss her entrepreneurial journey to get Evidence-Based Rehab Video Games Into the Hands of Users, at the upcoming  2012 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (June ... Read on »
Dr. Peter Whitehouse on Revamping Alzheimer’s Diagnosis, Prevention and Care by Alvaro F. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Dr. Whitehouse will discuss why and how we need to revamp Alzheimer’s Diagnosis, Prevention and Care, at the upcoming  2012 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (June 7-14th, 2012), ... Read on »
Dr. Holly Jimison on Cognitive Health Coaching: A Home-based Approach to Cognitive Monitoring and... by Alvaro F. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Dr. Jimison will discuss latest research, tools and trends on Cognitive Health Coaching: A Home-based Approach to Cognitive Monitoring @ 2012 SharpBrains Virtual Su ... Read on »
On Music, Dopamine, and Making Sense of Sound by Alvaro F. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Daniel Levitin, in This Is Your Brain On Music, suggests the following sound experiment. Situate yourself someplace where you can close your eyes and focus on the sounds a ... Read on »
Agenda @ 2012 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (June 7-14th) by Alvaro F. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health 82% of respon­dents to a 2012 Sharp­Brains sur­vey (n=3,165) agreed/ strongly agreed with “Adults of all ages should take charge of their own “brain fit­ness” with­out w ... Read on »
Music as Therapy: Music, Movement, Cognition! by Alvaro F. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health The Sound of Music Whether you realize it or not, you already know a lot when it comes to music. According to Daniel Levitin, former record producer, current neuroscient ... Read on »
The Next Frontier: Neuroscience, Business and the Arts by Alvaro F. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” — Oh The Places You’ll Go, Dr.Seuss. The space between ... Read on »
New Sponsors @ 2012 SharpBrains Summit: Bracket, Alzheimer’s Research and Prevention... by Alvaro F. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health We are proud to announce two new Spon­sors @  2012 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit: Opti­miz­ing Health through Neu­ro­plas­tic­ity, Inno­va­tion and Data  (June 7-14th, 201 ... Read on »
Why Agile Minds Deploy Both Rational and Intuitive Problem-Solving by Alvaro F. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health A rare aha moment in 2011 set me chasing new problem-solving research. The study  Rational Versus Intuitive Problem-Solving: How Thinking ‘Off the Beaten Path’ Can Stimula ... Read on »
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