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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Barcelona talk: How Digital Tech will Transform Education, Training and Brain Health

By SharpBrains | September 7, 2010

If you hap­pen to be in Barcelona, Spain, on Sep­tem­ber 14th, make sure to attend Alvaro Fer­nan­dez talk there titled “How and Why Dig­i­tal Tech­nol­o­gy Will Trans­form Edu­ca­tion, Train­ing and Brain Health”. Date: 14/09/2010 Time: 19:00 Place: ESADEFORUM. Av. Pedralbes 60–62. Descrip­tion: You have a brain. Make it reflect on this provoca­tive vision of how the con­ver­gence of…

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IHRSA: Brain Fitness Offerings to Attract and Retain Baby Boomers

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 8, 2010 |

This week the Inter­na­tion­al Health, Rac­quet and Sports­club Asso­ci­a­tion (IHRSA), the main asso­ci­a­tion of health clubs world­wide, is hold­ing its annu­al con­ven­tion in San Diego. Infor­ma­tion Here. I will be pre­sent­ing a ses­sion on Wednes­day titled Brain Fit­ness Offer­ings to Attract and Retain Baby Boomers, to help par­tic­i­pants… Under­stand the impli­ca­tions from emerg­ing research, tools…

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Invitation to SharpBrains Summit — Technology for Cognitive Health and Performance

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 10, 2009

We are excit­ed to invite you to the first vir­tu­al, glob­al Sharp­Brains Sum­mit (Jan­u­ary 18–20th, 2010). The Sharp­Brains Sum­mit will fea­ture a dream team of over 25 speak­ers who are lead­ers in indus­try and research from 7 coun­tries, to dis­cuss emerg­ing research, tools and best prac­tices for cog­ni­tive health and per­for­mance. This inau­gur­al event will…

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Update: Does Cognitive Training Work?

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 28, 2009

Here you have the Feb­ru­ary edi­tion of our month­ly newslet­ter cov­er­ing cog­ni­tive health and brain fit­ness top­ics. Please remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive this Newslet­ter by email, sim­ply by sub­mit­ting your email at the top of this page. Cog­ni­tive train­ing (or struc­tured men­tal exer­cise) def­i­nite­ly seems to work — as long as we define…

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Brain Games and Training for Baby Boomers: News Round-Up

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 8, 2009

Round-up of recent news with a vari­ety of angles, from the effects of gam­ing to cog­ni­tive train­ing for dri­ving skills and brain fit­ness class­es. Seniors use brain train­ing soft­ware to sharp­en their minds (Dal­las Morn­ing News) — “All­state Insur­ance has invit­ed some pol­i­cy­hold­ers and oth­er old­er dri­vers to try InSight so researchers can eval­u­ate whether the…

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