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Last month I had the fortune to join over 1,900 pioneers from 90 nations at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in Tianjin, China, to discuss how innovation can improve the state of the world.

Throughout countless panels, workshops, private assemblies and social gatherings, we examined the best way to handle climate change, the best way to put money into public infrastructure to better control financial services, and heaps of other urgent topics. In addressing these issues, everyone -- independent of nationality or discipline - brought to the table our most prized asset: the Human Brain that was astounding.

During captivating and arousing sessions we explored the newest frontiers in neuroscience. A prominent focus was around how emerging neurotechnologies, like those enabled by the White House BRAIN Initiative, will help revolutionize our knowledge of the brain and the mind and record brain process in unprecedented detail and, consequently, discover.

In parallel, high-ranking government officials and wellness experts convened to brainstorm about how exactly to "maximize healthy life years." The dialogue revolved around physical health and promoting positive lifestyles, but was mostly quiet on the issues of cognitive or mental well-being. The brain, that vital advantage everyone has to learn, problem solve and make great-choices, and also the associated cognitive neurosciences where much progress has occurred over the last two decades, are still largely absent in the health plan.

What if existing brain research and non-invasive neurotechnologies might be used to enhance public health and well-being? How can we start building bridges that are better from existing science and also the technologies towards handling wards real world health challenges we're facing?

Great news is that a transformation is already underway, albeit underneath the radar. Individuals and institutions globally are anticipated to spend over $1.3 billion in 2014 in web-based, cellular and biometrics-based alternatives to assess and improve brain function. Growth is poised to continue, fueled by appearing cellular and non-invasive neurotechnologies, and by consumer and patient demands for self-powered, proactive brain care. For example, 83% of surveyed early-adopters agree that "adults of ages should take charge of their own brain fitness, without waiting for their doctors to inform them to" and "would personally take a short assessment annually as an annual mental check-up."

These are 10 priorities to think about, if we should enhance well-being & wellness based about the latest neuroscience and non invasive neurotechnology:

1. This is exactly what the Research Domain Criteria framework, set forth from the National Institute of Mental Health, is beginning to do.

2. Bring meditative practices to the mainstream, via school-based and corporate programs, and leveraging relatively-inexpensive biometric systems

3. Coopt pervading activities, like playing videogames...but in a sense that ensures they have a beneficial effect, such as with cognitive training games specifically designed to prolong cognitive energy as we age

4. Offer internet-based psychotherapies as first-line interventions for depression and stress (and likely insomnia), as recommended by great britain 's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.

5. Track the negative emotional and cognitive side effects from a number of medical interventions, to ensure unintentional effects in the treatment are not more afflictive than the treated person's initial state. Given that the US Food and Drug Administration just cleared an innovative mobile brain health assessment, what prevents wider use of baseline assessments and active monitoring of cognition as an individual begins drug or a certain treatment system?

6. Combine pharmacological interventions (bottom-up) with cognitive training (top-down) such as the CogniFit - Bayer venture for patients with Multiple Sclerosis

7. Startup Thync merely raised $13 million to market transcranial stimulation in 2015, helping users "change their frame of mind."

8. Invest more research dollars to fine-tune brain stimulation techniques, including transcranial magnetic stimulation, to enable truly personalized medicine.

9. Embrace big data research models, including the newly-declared UCSF Brain Health Registry, to leapfrog the present clinical trial model that was modest and move us closer towards delivering personalized, integrated brain care.

10. And, last but certainly not least, promote bilingual instruction and physical exercise in our schools, and reduce drop-out rates. Improving and enriching our schools is perhaps the strongest social intervention (and the first noninvasive neurotechnology) to build lifelong brain reservation, лунна диета and delay issues brought by cognitive aging and dementia.

Initiatives like those above are a significant beginning treat and to view the human brain as an asset to really maximize years of purposeful, practical and healthy living, and to take a position in across the whole human lifespan.

Existing bridges reinforce -- and construct new ones that are needed -- to enhance our collective health and well being.