Stanford and Max Planck on Mental Fitness

Stan­ford Issues Find­ings from Cog­ni­tive and Brain Experts Urg­ing Con­sumer Cau­tion on Mem­o­ry Fit­ness Prod­ucts (press release)

- “Fear of mem­o­ry loss, men­tal impair­ment and Alzheimer’s dis­ease lead many con­sumers to search for prod­ucts — from sup­ple­ments to soft­ware — that claim to ward off such ail­ments,” Lau­ra L. Carstensen, found­ing direc­tor of the Stan­ford Cen­ter on Longevi­ty, said. “Such prod­ucts are becom­ing more pro­lif­ic, but this bur­geon­ing indus­try is com­plete­ly unreg­u­lat­ed and the claims can range from rea­son­able though untest­ed, to bla­tant­ly false. It is impor­tant for con­sumers to pro­ceed with cau­tion before buy­ing into many of these prod­uct claims. There is no mag­ic bul­let solu­tion for cog­ni­tive decline.”

- The Sum­mit’s (Note: held in April 2008) state­ment points out that “it would be wrong to con­clude that noth­ing can be done to improve men­tal fit­ness.” But goes on to “strong­ly encour­age research that com­pares the effi­ca­cy and the cost-effec­tive­ness of dif­fer­ent approach­es to main­tain­ing cog­ni­tive fitness.”

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