To reach your cognitive potential across the whole lifespan, augment healthy lifestyle with brain training

By SharpBrains | October 26, 2015

Can You Get Smarter? (The New York Times): “A few years back, a joint study by BBC and Cam­bridge Uni­ver­si­ty neu­ro­sci­en­tists put brain train­ing to the test…There was, how­ev­er a glim­mer of hope for sub­jects age 60 and above…Unlike the younger par­tic­i­pants, old­er sub­jects showed a sig­nif­i­cant improve­ment in ver­bal reasoning

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Innovative partnerships to improve lifelong brain health and customer/ patient satisfaction

By SharpBrains | December 4, 2014

Inno­v­a­tive part­ner­ships to improve life­long brain health and customer/ patient sat­is­fac­tion from Sharp­Brains Enjoy these great pre­sen­ta­tions, deliv­ered at the 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit and fea­tur­ing: Bill Pren­ovitz, Glob­al Prod­uct and Ser­vice Man­age­ment at Philips Healthcare’s Aging-in-Place Pro­gram Dr. Michael Wein­er, Lead Sci­en­tific Inves­ti­ga­tor of the Brain Health Reg­istry Tom­my Sagroun, CEO of Cog­niFit Chair: Rita Carter, Author, Broadcaster…

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SharpBrains Council Monthly Insights: How will we assess, enhance and repair cognition across the lifespan?

By SharpBrains | November 18, 2010

When you think of how the PC has altered the fab­ric of soci­ety, per­mit­ting instant access to infor­ma­tion and automat­ing process­es beyond our wildest dreams, it is instruc­tive to con­sid­er that much of this progress was dri­ven by Moore’s law. Halv­ing the size of semi­con­duc­tor every 18 months catal­ysed an expo­nen­tial accel­er­a­tion in per­for­mance. Why…

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Another victim of the BBC/Nature “brain training” experiment

By Dr. Pascale Michelon | October 8, 2010 |

Have you read the cov­er sto­ry of the New Sci­en­tist this week: Men­tal mus­cle: six ways to boost your brain? The arti­cle, which includes good infor­ma­tion on brain food, the val­ue of med­i­ta­tion, etc., starts by say­ing that: “Brain train­ing does­n’t work, but there are lots of oth­er ways to give your grey mat­ter a…

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Update: Innovation to Upgrade Brain Care

By SharpBrains | July 28, 2010 |

Here you have the July edi­tion of our month­ly eNewslet ter cov­er­ing cog­ni­tive health and brain fit­ness top­ics. Please remem ber that you can sub­scribe to receive this free Brain Fit­ness eNewslet­ter by email, using the box in the right col­umn. Tech­nol­o­gy to upgrade brain care: In this exten­sive inter­view, Dr. John Docher­ty helps con­nect the…

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