Back to work after nice mini-break…let’s all have a great 2010, and a fruit­ful decade.

We are proud to announce a new spon­sor and sev­eral part­ners who are help­ing make the Sharp­Brains Sum­mit a reality.

Spon­sor

The Arrow­smith Pro­gram is a com­pre­hen­sive suite of cog­ni­tive pro­grams for stu­dents with learn­ing dis­abil­i­ties that tar­gets 19 areas of the brain that are most com­monly involved in learn­ing.  It inte­grates two lines of neu­ro­science research, that of Russ­ian neu­ropsy­chol­o­gist, A.R. Luria and the Amer­i­can psy­chol­o­gist, Mark Rosen­zweig, into a method­ol­ogy with a mul­ti­tude of prac­ti­cal appli­ca­tions for address­ing learn­ing dis­abil­i­ties.  The Arrow­smith Pro­gram iden­ti­fies and strength­ens the weak cog­ni­tive areas that affect learn­ing and each stu­dent works on cog­ni­tive pro­grams that are indi­vid­u­ally designed for his or her areas of learn­ing dif­fi­culty.  The Arrow­smith Pro­gram was devel­oped at Arrow­smith School in Toronto where it has been offered since 1979 and is avail­able in pub­lic and pri­vate schools in Canada and the U.S.

Part­ners

The Brain Injury Asso­ci­a­tion of Amer­ica (BIAA), founded in 1980, is the lead­ing national orga­ni­za­tion serv­ing and rep­re­sent­ing indi­vid­u­als, fam­i­lies and pro­fes­sion­als who are touched by a life-altering, often dev­as­tat­ing, trau­matic brain injury (TBI). Together with its net­work of more than 40 char­tered state affil­i­ates, as well as hun­dreds of local chap­ters and sup­port groups across the coun­try, the BIAA pro­vides infor­ma­tion, edu­ca­tion and sup­port to assist the 3.17 mil­lion Amer­i­cans cur­rently liv­ing with trau­matic brain injury and their families.

The UC-Santa Bar­bara Neu­ro­science Research Insti­tute has a mis­sion to pro­mote and facil­i­tate inter­dis­ci­pli­nary neu­ro­science research. Work in the insti­tute inte­grates the tools and strate­gies of mod­ern mol­e­c­u­lar biol­ogy, genet­ics, cell biol­ogy, devel­op­men­tal biol­ogy, biopsy­chol­ogy, bio­chem­istry, phys­i­ol­ogy, bio­physics and bioengineering.

The Alzheimer’s Research and Pre­ven­tion Foun­da­tion (ARPF), estab­lished in 1993, is ded­i­cated to reduc­ing the inci­dence of Alzheimer’s dis­ease by con­duct­ing clin­i­cal research and pro­vid­ing edu­ca­tional out­reach. Our mis­sion is to make avail­able infor­ma­tion, from con­ven­tional and com­ple­men­tary med­i­cine, that will empower peo­ple to build healthy brains.

OLLI @ Berke­ley is one of the 121 Osher Life­long Learn­ing Insti­tutes on uni­ver­sity and col­lege cam­puses in 48 states (plus the Dis­trict of Colum­bia) sup­ported by the Bernard Osher Foun­da­tion. OLLI @ Berke­ley pro­vides older adults an intel­lec­tual, cul­tural and cre­ative con­nec­tion to Berke­ley as well as a place for Berkeley’s dis­tin­guished fac­ulty and oth­ers to share their research and inter­ests in an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary exchange of ideas.

To learn more about the upcom­ing Sharp­Brains Sum­mit (Jan­u­ary 18-20th), click Here.

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