Cognitive Tests Help Determine who can Drive Safely after a Stroke

By Dr. Pascale Michelon | March 7, 2011 |

The same way a brain fit­ness soft­ware pro­gram can help increase dri­ving safe­ty for old­er adults, sim­ple cog­ni­tive tests may help deter­mine whether a per­son can dri­ve safe­ly after a stroke. A recent study ana­lyzed 30 pre­vi­ous stud­ies in which the par­tic­i­pants’ dri­ving skills after a stroke were test­ed in an on-road eval­u­a­tion. 1,728 individuals…

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Improving Driving Skills and Brain Functioning- Interview with ACTIVE’s Jerri Edwards

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 4, 2008 |

Today we are for­tu­nate to inter­view Dr. Jer­ri Edwards, an Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor at Uni­ver­si­ty of South Flori­da’s School of Aging Stud­ies and Co-Inves­ti­­ga­­tor of the influ­en­cial ACTIVE study. Dr. Edwards was trained by Dr. Kar­lene K. Ball, and her research is aimed toward dis­cov­er­ing how cog­ni­tive abil­i­ties can be main­tained and even enhanced with advanc­ing age.…

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#14 Brain Teaser: Party For Polyglots

By Caroline Latham | April 9, 2007 |

We are delight­ed to intro­duce you to Puz­zle Mas­ter Wes Car­roll who has gra­cious­ly cre­at­ed a few new puz­zles to bend all those sharp brains out there! Wes aspires to the Renais­sance ide­al of excel­lence in mul­ti­ple fields: he is the head of Do The Math pri­vate tutor­ing ser­vices, Puz­zle Mas­ter for the Ask A Sci­en­tist lec­ture series, and an inter­na­tion­al­ly tour­ing per­former and teacher of music. Find out more at wescarroll.com.Party For Polyglots.Question:Of the 100 peo­ple at a recent par­ty, 90 spoke Span­ish, 80 spoke Ital­ian, and 75 spoke Mandarin.At least how many spoke all three languages?

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