To Manage Brain Fitness Through Life, We Need to Put Puzzle Pieces Together

By Alvaro Fernandez | June 21, 2010

The main val­ue of the inde­pen­dent NIH pan­el men­tioned in the pre­vi­ous arti­cle comes from the rec­om­men­da­tions it makes for research, indus­try and gov­ern­ment to fill the gaps in the sci­en­tif­ic evi­dence in years to come. … In fact, hav­ing access to objec­tive, auto­mat­ed assess­ments to help con­sumers bet­ter mon­i­tor their cog­ni­tive health and take proactive,…

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Brain Fitness Survey: We Need More Brain Awareness Weeks!

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 17, 2009 |

If you sub­scribe to our month­ly newslet­ter, you may remem­ber we ran a sur­vey in Jan­u­ary. Well, the response rate and the qual­i­ty of the respons­es were noth­ing short of spec­tac­u­lar, in many dimen­sions. The respons­es from over 2,000 par­tic­i­pants (out of 21,000 sub­scribers) rein­force the need for pub­lic aware­ness ini­tia­tives and qual­i­ty infor­ma­tion to…

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Update: Global Consortium for Neurocognitive Fitness Innovation

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 30, 2008 |

As men­tioned before, the World Eco­nom­ic Forum asked me to write “an 800 words sum­ma­ry of your most com­pelling action­able idea on the chal­lenges of geron­tol­ogy”, in prepa­ra­tion for the Inau­gur­al Sum­mit of the Glob­al Agen­da that will take place Novem­ber 7 to 9th in Dubai.A good num­ber of Sharp­Brains read­ers and clients offered their…

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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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Brain Exercise: Software vs. Crosswords

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 6, 2008 |

Today I had a great con­ver­sa­tion with Mar­tin Buschkuehl, one of the U Michi­gan researchers involved in the cog­ni­tive train­ing study that has received much media atten­tion since ear­ly last week, when the study was pub­lished at the Pro­ceed­ings of the Nation­al Acad­e­my of Sci­ences. I will pub­lish the inter­view notes next week. For the…

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Stress Management for Lawyers

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 22, 2007

The ABA (Amer­i­can Bar Asso­ci­a­tion) Jour­nal has a good arti­cle titled Law Hacks: 101 tips, tricks and tools to make you a more pro­duc­tive, less stressed-out lawyer, com­bin­ing tips on email usage, soft­ware, and some brain tips from us: 67 “The Web site Sharp­Brains sug­gests self-improve­­ment exer­cis­es. Try this one: Take five-minute visu­alization breaks with deep…

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