Study: Computerized cognitive training may help patients with mild cognitive impairment (less so once diagnosed with dementia)

By SharpBrains | November 17, 2016

Brain Gain: Com­put­er­ized Train­ing May Boost Cog­ni­tion in MCI (Med­scape): “Com­put­er­ized cog­ni­tive train­ing (CCT) for patients with mild cog­ni­tive impair­ment (MCI) appears to have a ben­e­fi­cial effect on glob­al cog­ni­tion, mem­o­ry, and atten­tion and improves psy­choso­cial func­tion­ing, includ­ing depres­sive symptoms, 

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Study: Wisdom requires both higher heart rate variability and adopting a third-person perspective

By Greater Good Science Center | June 1, 2016 |

——- Many cul­tures con­sid­er the human heart to be the seat of wis­dom. Now sci­en­tists are find­ing some evi­dence for this, though the real­i­ty may be more com­pli­cat­ed than it seems. Pre­vi­ous research has sug­gest­ed that high­er heart rate vari­abil­i­ty (HRV)—the vari­abil­i­ty in the time between our heartbeats

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Study: Cognitive deficits continue long term in cancer survivors in domains important for social and executive functioning

By SharpBrains | January 21, 2016

Cog­ni­tive Deficits Con­tin­ue Long Term in Can­cer Sur­vivors (Med­scape): “Although can­cer patients fre­quent­ly expe­ri­ence short-term cog­ni­tive deficits, lit­tle is known about how long these deficits last or whether they wors­en over time. Now, data from a large nation­al sam­ple sug­gest that cog­ni­tive deficits may per­sist long term.

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Quick brain teasers to train your attention and working memory

By SharpBrains | November 7, 2014

— Here you have a few fun men­tal exer­cis­es to train your atten­tion and work­ing mem­o­ry (the capac­i­ty to hold mul­ti­ple pieces of infor­ma­tion in the mind, and to use them real-time). Giv­en them a try today and over the weekend…they are not as easy as they may sound! Say the days of the week back­wards, then in alphabetical…

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