Brain Training and Cognitive Assessment Market Surpassed $1.3 Billion In 2013

By SharpBrains | January 23, 2014

Heads-up: We just announced a new intel­li­gence pack­age aimed at edu­ca­tion, health, gam­ing and tech­nol­o­gy exec­u­tives and inno­va­tors. “Many mar­ket reports pro­vide lit­tle val­ue for the mon­ey. This mar­ket report by Sharp­Brains is the pre­cise oppo­site. Its wealth of data and analy­sis pro­vides very valu­able strate­gic and busi­ness devel­op­ment guid­ance to orga­ni­za­tions at the frontier…

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28 Confirmed Speakers: Optimizing Health through Neuroplasticity & Digital Innovation

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 23, 2012

The 2012 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (June 7–8th 2012, no trav­el required since event takes place ful­ly online) is plung­ing ahead, with 28 Con­firmed Speak­ers so far: Dr. Tra­cy Alloway, Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor, Uni­ver­sity of North Flori­da; author of AWMA assess­ment Dr. Gre­gory Bay­er, CEO, Brain Resource Dr. Robert Bilder, Chief of Med­ical Psy­­chol­o­­gy-Neu­rop­sy­­chol­o­­gy, UCLA Semel Insti­tute for Neu­ro­science Nolan Bush­nell, Founder,…

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Lumos Labs raises $32.5m: Largest Cognitive/ Brain Fitness Investment so far

By Alvaro Fernandez | June 16, 2011

Lumos Labs, the com­pa­ny behind lumosity.com, has raised $32.5 mil­lion dol­lars in a Series C round from Men­lo Ven­tures, First­Mark Cap­i­tal, Har­ri­son Met­al and Nor­west Ven­ture Part­ners. In our 2010 mar­ket report Lumos Labs came up as one of the cat­e­go­ry Lead­ers giv­en its mar­ket and research momen­tum (not easy for a start­up to get…

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A Brain Store to Find the Right Brain Fitness Products

By Dr. Pascale Michelon | March 4, 2011

Baby­boomers, wor­ried about demen­tia, are look­ing for ways to keep their brain active. Board games and brain fit­ness soft­ware pro­grams are part of the answer. How­ev­er it is not always easy to find and com­pare these prod­ucts. This arti­cle shows how Mar­ble: The Brain Store has devel­oped a very inter­ac­tive retail expe­ri­ence to help consumers…

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New Report Finds A Brain Health Revolution in the Making, Driven by Digital Technology and Neuroplasticity Research

By Alvaro Fernandez | June 28, 2010

In spite of the recent eco­nom­ic down­turn, rev­enues for dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies to assess, enhance and treat cog­ni­tion, or dig­i­tal brain health and fit­ness tools, grew 35% in 2009. “The con­ver­gence of demo­graph­ic and pol­i­cy trends with cog­ni­tive neu­ro­science dis­cov­er­ies and tech­no­log­i­cal inno­va­tion is giv­ing birth to a nascent mar­ket­place that can fun­da­men­tal­ly trans­form what brain…

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