MindFit Brain Fitness Program review

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 21, 2006 |

Get­ting ready for the hol­i­days, not the best time to write great orig­i­nal content…so let us share the only review we have found so far on one of the pro­grams we offer, Mind­Fit. First, a good arti­cle titled The dawn of cog­ni­tive tech­nol­o­gy, on the sci­ence behind the need for struc­tured com­put­er-based pro­grams, with quotes…

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New Brain Fitness Guide

By Caroline Latham | December 14, 2006 |

We are very excit­ed to announce our new guide: <strong>Brain Fit­ness for Sharp Brains: Your <em>New</em> New Year Resolution,</strong>. Alvaro Fer­nan­dez and Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg wrote it with Car­o­line Lath­am in order to pro­vide an intro­duc­tion to the con­cept, sci­ence, and prac­tice of brain fitness.

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This is a Brain Fitness Center.

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 12, 2006 |

Today we issued the fol­low­ing press release, and are work­ing hard to get every­thing ready by Jan­u­ary (every­thing works now, but we want to pol­ish it). Please view this web­site as research in action, a liv­ing hypoth­e­sis. We are doing this because we love to learn and help. Please help us learn-feel free to give…

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MindFit, IntelliGym, RoboMemo, Freeze-Framer

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 13, 2006

Mind­Fit, Intel­li­Gym, RoboMemo, Freeze-Framer? Is this a puz­zle? As you may have noticed, we just start­ed to offer through the web­site some of the Brain Fit­ness pro­grams we have been talk­ing about. For over a year we have been search­ing for best pro­grams world­wide, and here you have some of the pro­grams we have found.…

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Brain Fitness Programs, “Brain Gyms”…Explained

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 17, 2006 |

Thanks to Mind­Hacks for the link to a good Wash­ing­ton Post arti­cle, “Pump­ing Neu­rons”. A cou­ple of quotes: Recent research shows that the brain remains plas­tic, or basi­cal­ly train­able, through­out life. In a study pub­lished in the Jour­nal of the Amer­i­can Med­ical Asso­ci­a­tion in 2002, sig­nif­i­cant per­cent­ages of the 2,802 par­tic­i­pants age 65 and older…

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Brain Fitness, Cultivating Cognition, and Brain Science

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 1, 2006 |

Chris Chat­man writes a good intro­duc­tion to what we do, in his entry Cul­ti­vat­ing Cog­ni­tion: the “Brain Fit­ness” Move­ment. I real­ly enjoy his use of the word “cul­ti­vat­ing”, since we want to help inspire a cul­tur­al change that places nur­tur­ing, exer­cis­ing, cul­ti­vat­ing, our brains and minds at the same lev­el as exer­cis­ing and train­ing our…

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