Growing demand for products to enhance cognition and memory

By SharpBrains | May 1, 2015

. Mar­ket­ing Cog­ni­tion Prod­ucts (Nat­ur­al Prod­ucts Insid­er): “Cog­ni­tion and brain health is a hot top­ic, espe­cial­ly in light of the aging population…As there is cur­rent­ly no cure for demen­tia, con­sumers have a strong inter­est in both per­for­mance and pre­ven­tive cog­ni­tion prod­ucts that include an array of options from 

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Report: Boomers’ Ability to Make Financial Decisions Often Declines With Age

By SharpBrains | July 26, 2011

(Edi­tor’s Note: this time­ly new report illus­trates the need for inno­v­a­tive brain fit­ness inter­ven­tions focused on main­tain­ing if not enhanc­ing tar­get­ed cog­ni­tive func­tion­al­i­ty, such as dri­ving safe­ty or finan­cial deci­­sion-mak­ing, lever­ag­ing life­long neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty and cog­ni­tive reserve. What the report presents as inex­orable, some­what genet­i­cal­ly pre-pro­­grammed decline, it is not.) BMO Retire­ment Insti­tute Report: Boomers’ Abil­i­ty to…

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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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Gerontology and the Brain

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 7, 2008 |

Last Fri­day, dur­ing the Amer­i­can Soci­ety on Aging’s Brain Health day, a par­tic­i­pant made a com­ment along the lines, “I just com­plet­ed my Mas­ters in Geron­tol­ogy at Uni­ver­si­ty XYZ. Despite my best efforts, I could not find a sin­gle brain-relat­ed class to attend as part of my stud­ies. Which is why I decid­ed to come…

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