Itamar Lesuisse at Peak: Let’s integrate brain training with the quantified self

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 22, 2014

What is your cur­rent job title and orga­ni­za­tion, and what excites you the most about work­ing there? I am the CEO at Peak, a mobile brain-train­ing app that helps users to enjoy becom­ing bet­ter every day. My cofounders and I want­ed to start a com­pa­ny where tech­nol­o­gy, sci­ence, edu­ca­tion and gam­ing blend togeth­er to cre­ate a…

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Brain Training Games for Seniors: Looking for the best brain training app

By Donal O'Brien @ Queen's University Belfast | February 10, 2011 |

This arti­cle reports on a series of focus group stud­ies car­ried out at the Son­ic Arts Research Cen­tre, Queen’s Uni­ver­si­ty Belfast, North­ern Ire­land. The aim was to iden­ti­fy the key moti­va­tion­al fac­tors influ­enc­ing seniors’ engage­ment with mobile brain train­ing tech­nol­o­gy in order to inform the design of a brain train­ing tool which is acceptable /…

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Brain Fitness Newsletter: Premium Research Sponsors

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 16, 2008

Here you have the twice-a-month newslet­ter with our most pop­u­lar blog posts. Please remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive this Newslet­ter by email, sim­ply by sub­mit­ting your email at the top of this page. Have you ever won­dered how we can main­tain Sharp­Brains’ web­site, blog and newslet­ter with­out sell­ing any prod­ucts and with only limited…

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Mind Games @ Venture Capital Journal

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 6, 2008 |

The August issue of Ven­ture Cap­i­tal Jour­nal brings a very good piece on the emerg­ing brain fit­ness soft­ware  (also called “neu­rosoft­ware”) cat­e­go­ry: – Mind Games (sub­scrip­tion required) – Dakim, Lumos Labs, Posit Sci­ence and oth­er brain fit­ness star­tups are start­ing to gain mind share and cap­i­tal from ven­ture firms. The reporter and I spoke as Lumos…

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Update: Brain Health Promotion Event and Predictions

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 31, 2008

Here you have the twice-a-month newslet­ter with our most pop­u­lar blog posts. Please remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive this Newslet­ter by email, sim­ply by sub­mit­ting your email at the top of this page. News and Events Brain Health Pro­mo­tion by the Amer­i­can Soci­ety on Aging: You may be inter­est­ed in the excel­lent agen­da the…

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Mobile Brain Training, Scientific Learning, and More News

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 30, 2008

Some recent brain train­ing and health news:  1) A Promis­ing Debut for Com­put­er­ized Ther­a­pies 2) Fit­ness pro­tects brain in Alzheimer’s patients 3) Brain Fit­ness Pro­gram Clas­sic comes to Mac 4) Posit Sci­ence gains own­er­ship of Sci­en­tif­ic Learn­ing (NSDQ: SCIL) Brain­Con­nec­tion. 5) Brain train­ing on your mobile 6) You must remem­ber this: how the mind works Here you…

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