Sleep, Tetris, Memory and the Brain

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 24, 2008 |

As part of our ongo­ing Author Speaks Series, we are hon­ored to present today this excel­lent arti­cle by Dr. Shan­non Mof­fett, based on her illu­mi­nat­ing and engag­ing book. Enjoy! (and please go to sleep soon if you are read­ing this late Mon­day night). ———— Two years ago I fin­ished a book on the mind/brain, called The Three…

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Brain Fitness Software Report: Reviews

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 21, 2008 |

A few recent acco­lades for our just released Mar­ket Report: “An in-depth and cred­i­ble mar­ket research report that pro­vides an objec­tive view for investors and exec­u­tives look­ing for gam­ing and health oppor­tu­ni­ties in the grow­ing “brain train­ing” space. This report is a must-read to under­stand the state of the mar­ket, the play­ers, and key trends.”…

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Relaxing for your Brain’s Sake

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 20, 2008 |

What stress­es you out ? What­ev­er it is, how you respond to it may have more con­se­quences than you think. Let me show you how. Recap­ping from last months arti­cle (see Stress and Neur­al Wreck­age: Part of the Brain Plas­tic­i­ty Puz­zle)…our bod­ies are a com­plex bal­anc­ing act between sys­tems work­ing full time to keep us alive and well.…

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Brain, Mind and Body Blogs

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 18, 2008

A cou­ple of great blog car­ni­val editions (col­lec­tions of blog posts around spe­cif­ic top­ics): — Encephalon: neu­ro­science and psy­chol­o­gy. — Grand Rounds: health and medicine.  And a good Radar Roundup of brain-relat­ed news. Note: our esti­mate for the whole mar­ket in 2007 is $225m, not $110m; and the Con­sumer Seg­ment (most­ly Nin­ten­do Brain Age/ Acad­e­my, but not all)…

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Posit Science & InSight for Visual Processing

By Caroline Latham | March 17, 2008

Posit Sci­ence Cor­po­ra­tion announced today, at the annu­al Inter­na­tion­al Long Term Care Insur­ance Conference, the launch of a new pro­gram called  InSight™ for visu­al pro­cess­ing train­ing. We have not yet had the chance to ana­lyze the pro­gram, but sev­er­al per­ti­nent open ques­tions posed by Alvaro last month to Posit Sci­ence rep­re­sen­ta­tives (see Posit Sci­ence Brain Fit­ness Pro­gram 2.0: Open…

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Brain Fitness Newletter: Mid-March edition

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 16, 2008

Here you are have the bi-mon­th­­ly Digest of our 10 most Pop­u­lar blog posts. (Also, remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive our blog RSS feed, or to our newslet­ter at the top of this page if you want to receive this digest by email). We hope you had a great Brain Aware­ness Week. After many months…

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