There are tools that can effect both emotions and habits. Like brain mapping you will learn to capture your specific unique mind, measure effects and form wanted habits, thoughts and emotions. Place the palm of your hand on your forehead. You are now centimeters form your frontal and prefrontal cortex. This is only one brain system out of the many that produce your unique personality and habits profile. We will take abstract concepts and transform them through the knowledge of neural science and …

How can we make fragmented data about our offline, mobile & online selves more useful and fun? "be id" with us at Manhattan events to learn to unify vast personal information as your digital self in real time. We'll explore how we might benefit by better integrating our physiological & multiple virtual identities. Our speakers & labs will enable us to delve into our own deluge of data. We expect to discover insights in new ways with innovative mobile-apps & personal-tech tools. While you mig …

Habit Design™ is the largest research cooperative for sharing best practices in developing sustainable daily habits that last beyond 100 days. Our goal is to spawn local "habit labs" across the world; over 8,000 members have participated representing 500+ companies, universities, non-profits, and other organizations. We synthesize applied research across a wide range of habit designers including entrepreneurs, Wellness companies & professionals, non-profits, trainers, coaches, academics, and eve …

This group is dedicated to advancing innovations that focus on improving patient care with the active involvement of Patients, Physicians, Nurses, Administrators, Engineers, and even Lawyers.  If your interest is in improving the practice and performance of medicine, than this is the meetup for you. Borne of the Health 2.0 international movement, Eugene Borukovich started the NYC chapter in 2008. Our chapter has since grown to become the largest healthcare innovation focused meetup in the world …

We're talking urban infrastructure, smart grid, open hardware, quantified self, open data, environmental monitoring and more.  Anything that puts a networked computer where none has gone before.

This group is for people interested in new technologies, startups and disruptive business innovations in the field of longevity / aging. It supports the Aging2.0 website. Note: we're mostly using Eventbrite to manage our events now, so go there to register for future events. Go here for the events. Topics will be chosen of interest to entrepreneurs and investors looking to accelerate the growth of new companies in this space, and will range health-care (cognition, mobility, sensing) through to h …

Who wants to engineer new and useful life forms? Explore your own genome? Test your food to see if the label is lying about what's in it? We are the Brooklyn biohackers, and we do all that and more when we meet at Genspace, Brooklyn's community biotech lab. If you are interested in DIY biology, personal genomics, or just like to geek out with friends, this is your group. We meet for pizza and beer at least once a month, do hands-on lab work, hear science talks, and play with a variety of organis …

Developers create solutions to problems in complex systems. "Health" involves an unbelievably complex system (the body), tangled up with an unfathomably real abstraction (the mind) and wrapped in a morass of business, government, and good intentions so labyrinthine in nature that it would make Kafka cry. If you love exploring elegant fixes to problems of mind-shattering difficulty in a collaborative environment then Health Devs is the group for you. Things health devs do: * Show off hacks we've …