Rethinking Alzheimer’s Prevention and Treatment: The Cognitive Shop/ Brain Fitness Center

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 15, 2010 |

Edi­tor’s note: Ken­neth S. Kosik, MD, and Ellen Clegg, authors of a recent book on Alzheimer’s Dis­ease pre­ven­tion and treat­ment, force­ful­ly pro­pose a new frame­work and mod­el for brain care: What about set­ting up “cog­ni­tive shops” as “a sort of one-stop shop­ping for every­thing from Alzheimer’s dis­ease pre­ven­tion to guid­ed care for mild or moderate…

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Montessori classroom for Alzheimer’s disease patients

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 2, 2008

A beau­ti­ful ini­tia­tive, fea­tured in the New York Times today: Com­ing Full Cir­cle: — “In a typ­i­cal Montes­sori class­room, teach­ers use cat­e­­go­ry-sort­ing exer­cis­es to help young stu­dents see pat­terns and con­nec­tions. But the par­tic­i­pants in this group were most­ly in their 80s and on the oth­er side of the cog­ni­tive devel­op­ment curve. They are res­i­dents at…

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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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Brain Fitness Newsletter: December Edition

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 30, 2007 |

I hope you are hav­ing a joy­ful hol­i­day sea­son, and wish you a Hap­py and Pros­per­ous 2008. The Brain Fit­ness field has made a great deal of progress in 2007, and we are look­ing for­ward the New Year.  Here you are have the Month­ly Digest of our Most Pop­u­lar Blog Posts. You can con­sid­er it your…

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Alzheimer’s Prevention and Diagnostic Tests

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 29, 2007 |

Roundup of sev­er­al insight­ful arti­cles and recent research: Fish Oil May Help Pre­vent Alzheimer’s (Wash­ing­ton Post) — “The omega‑3 fat­ty acids found in fish oil might play an impor­tant role in pre­vent­ing Alzheimer’s dis­ease, accord­ing to a research team at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, Los Ange­les (UCLA).” — “Pub­lish­ing in the Dec. 26 issue of the…

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