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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 enhance the state of the world.

Throughout countless private assemblies, workshops, panels and social gatherings, we examined how to cope with 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 problems, everyone -- independent of discipline or nationality - brought to the table our most precious asset: the astounding Human Brain.

During stimulating and captivating sessions we researched the newest frontiers in neuroscience. A notable focus was around how emerging neurotechnologies, for example those empowered by the White House BRAIN Initiative, will help find and record brain activity in unprecedented detail and, hence, revolutionize our knowledge of the brain and also the mind.

In parallel, high ranking government officials and wellness experts convened to brainstorm about how exactly to "optimize healthy life years." The dialogue revolved around physical wellbeing and promoting positive lifestyles, but was largely quiet on the subjects of cognitive or emotional wellbeing. The brain, that crucial asset everyone must learn, problem solve and make great-choices, and also the related cognitive neurosciences where much improvement has happened in the last two decades, are still largely absent from the health plan.

What if existing brain research and noninvasive neurotechnologies may be applied to improve public health and well-being? Just how can we start building better bridges from present science and also the technologies towards wards that are handling real world health challenges we're facing?

Good news is that the transformation is underway, albeit under the radar. As William Gibson eloquently said, "The future is already here -- it is simply not very evenly spread." Individuals and institutions globally are likely to spend over $1.3 billion in 2014 in net-based, mobile and biometrics-based solutions to evaluate and enhance brain function. Increase 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 instance, 83% of surveyed early-adopters consent that "adults of all ages should take charge of the own brain fitness, without waiting for his or her doctors to let them know to" and "would personally take a short evaluation each year as an annual mental check up."

These are 10 priorities to consider, if we need to improve wellness, health & based on the newest neuroscience and noninvasive neurotechnology:

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

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

3. Coopt pervading tasks, such as playing videogames...but in a way 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 probably sleeplessness), as advocated by the UK's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.

5. Surveil the negative cognitive and mental side-effects from many different clinical interventions, to ensure unintentional effects in the cure aren't afflictive than the treated person's first state. Given that the US Food and Drug Administration just cleared an advanced mobile brain health assessment, what prevents wider use of baseline assessments, протеинова диета and active monitoring of cognition as an individual starts drug or a particular treatment system?

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

7. Upgrade regulatory frameworks to facilitate safe adoption of consumer-facing neurotechnologies. Start-up Thync just raised $13 million to marketplace transcranial stimulation in 2015, helping users "change their frame of mind."

8. Invest more research dollars to fine-tune brain stimulation methods, for example transcranial magnetic stimulation, to enable truly personalized medicine.

9. Adopt big data research models, like the recently-announced UCSF Brain Health Registry, to leapfrog the existing little clinical trial model and move us closer towards delivering personalized, incorporated brain care.

10. And, last but definitely not least, promote bilingual instruction and physical exercise in our schools, and reduce drop out rates. Improving and enriching our schools is perhaps the most powerful societal intervention (and the original non invasive neurotechnology) to develop lifelong brain reserve and delay issues brought by cognitive aging and dementia.

Let's strengthen existing bridges -- and build new ones that are needed -- to improve our collective well-being and well being.

If we desire every citizen to adopt lifestyles that are more positive, particularly as we face longer and more demanding lives, it really is imperative that we better empower and equip ourselves with the right cognitive and emotional resources and tools. Initiatives for example those above are a significant beginning to view and treat the human brain as an asset to really optimize years of purposeful, functional and healthy living, and to get in across the entire human lifespan.