Eastside CHADD's Oct. 18th special meeting features Dr. Mishra. Join us to hear her talk, "Inventing Serious Games for Brighter Brains."
Kids and adults can learn immensely from game play. But today's commercial media, tech and games are not designed to enrich brains. Teams of neuroscientists along with clinical and industry partners are now leading efforts to innovate novel neurotechnologies that can be delivered as games, but are designed with the purpose to enhance brain and cognitive health and mental wellbeing.
Dr. Jyoti Mishra will describe her research in this domain, especially for children with attention deficit disorder. Dr. Mishra grew up in New Delhi, India and was introduced to research in the neurosciences during her Master's training at the National Center for Biological Sciences (NCBS). It was love at first sight and no looking elsewhere from that moment on. In 2008, she obtained her Ph.D. in Computational Neurobiology from UC San Diego under the mentorship of Dr. Steven Hillyard and Dr. Terry Sejnowski. She then moved to San Francisco in 2009 for a unique joint post-doctoral training opportunity bridging industry and academia between the Gazzaley lab & the Brain Plasticity Institute (BPI) at PositScience. She is now Assistant Professor in the departments of Neurology and Psychiatry.
