Colloquium 2026
Brain Health
Across the Lifespan
The Mensa Foundation Colloquium 2026 asks a practical question: what actually makes a brain healthy across a lifetime? The answer has many pieces: sleep, nutrition, laughter, emerging medical treatments, and ways of thinking about brain health that begin outside the brain itself. Each talk stands on its own, but together they point toward a bigger idea, that brain health is not one thing, but many systems working together.
Join us in Fort Worth, TX at the Omni Hotel, or online from anywhere, for an afternoon built to send you home with both useful tools and a renewed sense of wonder about the most complex organ you own.
In-person registration is $149; the livestream is $49 and broadcasts live on June 30. A livestream-plus-recording option is also available for $99, with the recording delivered roughly a month after the event.
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What Each Speaker Will Explore
Brain health is shaped by more than one factor, and it takes more than one discipline to understand it well. Our five speakers each bring a different piece of the picture, from sleep and nutrition to neuromodulation and a wider view of healthspan. Select any speaker below to read their full session abstract.
Schedule
How the Day Unfolds
The Colloquium is built as a single afternoon, designed to be experienced start to finish. Each speaker brings their own piece of the brain health picture, and the day is sequenced so those pieces build on one another, opening with the nervous system and well-being, moving through sleep and nutrition, and closing with neuromodulation and a wider view of healthspan. Each talk includes time for audience questions.
12:00 P.M.
Doors open
1:00 P.M.
Welcome and opening remarks
1:10 PM
Dr. Siddharth Ashvin Shah :
Operationalizing Well-Being — Joy, Laughter, and the Intelligent Nervous System
2:05 P.M.
Dr. Dan Gartenberg :
Sleep, Brain Health, and Cognitive Longevity
3:00 P.M.
Break
4:10 P.M.
Dr. Grant Brenner :
Neuromodulation and the Brain — Restoring Function, Renewing Potential
3:15 P.M.
Dr. Uma Naidoo :
Nutrition, Mindset, and Healthspan
5:05 P.M.
Dr. Srini Pillay :
Rethinking Healthspan and Longevity — Toward a More Integrated Model
6:10 P.M.
Closing Remarks
6:30 P.M.
Event ends