Physical and mental exercise to prevent cognitive decline

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 19, 2008 |

We offered some Brain Fit­ness Pre­dic­tions in our Mar­ket Report , includ­ing… “7. Doc­tors and phar­ma­cists will help patients nav­i­gate through the over­whelm­ing range of avail­able prod­ucts and inter­pret the results of cog­ni­tive assess­ments. This will require sig­nif­i­cant pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment efforts, giv­en that most doc­tors today were trained under a very dif­fer­ent under­stand­ing of the…

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Cognitive Enhancement, Aging Baby Boomers, and the Legal Profession

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 20, 2007

A quick note to alert you of two very inter­est­ing, grow­ing, and some­how linked debates: 1) Very insight­ful arti­cle on The Aging of the Baby Boomers: What Does It Mean for the Legal Pro­fes­sion (thank you, Stephanie!). Some quotes: — “As I pen this arti­cle, it seems as though I’m writ­ing about some­one else the…

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Brain Training with Cognitive Simulations

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 8, 2007

Today we will con­tin­ue our review of the ben­e­fits of brain train­ing for spe­cif­ic occu­pa­tions: in this case, pilots and bas­ket­ball play­ers. The lessons can be rel­e­vant not only for cor­po­rate train­ing but also for edu­ca­tion and brain health & well­ness. To do so, we will select quotes from our inter­view last year with one…

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