Bi-Weekly Update: Preventing Memory Loss and Public Policy

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 15, 2008 |

Here you are have the bi-mon­th­­ly Digest of our 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). Brain Fit­ness News and Events Upcom­ing Events: I will be speak­ing at…

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Upcoming Brain Health and Fitness Events

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 14, 2008 |

I will be speak­ing at the these upcom­ing con­fer­ences: if you are attend­ing, please let me know! » Boston, April 28th, 2008: Pan­el on Lat­est Brain Research Trends, at the Learn­ing and the Brain Con­fer­ence. » Boston, April 29th, 2008: New Devel­op­ments in Cog­ni­tive Retrain­ing Tech­nol­o­gy, at the Inno­va­tion Insti­tute. » Bal­ti­more, May 9th, 2008:  The State…

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Cognitive Health News Round-Up

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 10, 2008

Round-up of inter­est­ing recent news on cog­ni­tive health and fit­ness: the field is in motion. 1) Bay­crest cre­ates Cen­tre for Brain Fit­ness with $10-mil­lion Invest­ment from Ontario Gov­ern­ment (Cana­da NewsWire) 2) Cog­ni­tive tests are the best way to select med­ical stu­dents (EurekAlert) 3) High blood pres­sure hard on the aging brain (Reuters) 4) Alzheimer’s tests ben­e­fi­cial for seniors (Atlanta-Jour­­nal…

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Preventing Memory Loss-CQ Researcher

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 8, 2008

Ever won­dered what explains the some­times sur­re­al, often mis­guid­ed, health poli­cies by our gov­ern­ment? Well,  it is beyond our hum­ble brains to cap­ture and artic­u­late what may be going on…but we now see that lack of access to qual­i­ty infor­ma­tion is cer­tain­ly not the main prob­lem. Deci­­sion-mak­ing process­es, and struc­tur­al incen­tives, would prob­a­bly mer­it more…

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Salon.com on Brain Fitness: Tree or Forest?

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 1, 2008 |

Salon.com pub­lished yes­ter­day a thought-pro­­vok­ing arti­cle focused on Posit Sci­ence’s Brain Fit­ness Pro­gram, titled Buff Up Your Brain, that com­bined a) some pret­ty good analy­sis and great points about that spe­cif­ic pro­gram and jus­ti­fi­able (to a point) crit­i­cism of the com­mer­cial tone of a recent PBS Spe­cial, with b) the error of con­fus­ing a tree…

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DriveFit (CogniFit); Brain Fitness Program for Driving

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 29, 2008

Dri­ving as Next Brain Fit­ness Application?  Last month, at the MIT/ Smart­Sil­vers event where we pre­sent­ed our Brain Fit­ness Mar­ket Report, we dis­cussed what spe­cif­ic appli­ca­tions, beyond the cur­rent empha­sis on healthy aging, might take com­put­er­ized cog­ni­tive train­ing to a new level.   Assess­ing and improv­ing dri­ving skills would be a top can­di­date, giv­en both the well-defined…

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