Minding the Aging Brain

By Dr. Joshua Steinerman | February 20, 2008 |

Cog­ni­tive train­ing (the basis for what we call “brain fit­ness” these days) has a wide array of appli­ca­tions. The most recent one, which is cap­tur­ing pub­lic’s imag­i­na­tion, monop­o­liz­ing media cov­er­age, and cre­at­ing cer­tain con­fu­sion, is Healthy Brain Aging. We are for­tu­nate to have Dr. Joshua Stein­er­man, one of our new Expert Con­trib­u­tors, offer today his…

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Chemo Brain: cognitive effects of chemotherapy

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 29, 2007 |

Good NYT arti­cle today on how Chemother­a­py Fog Is No Longer Ignored as Illu­sion. Quotes: “Vir­tu­al­ly all can­cer sur­vivors who have had tox­ic treat­ments like chemother­a­py expe­ri­ence short-term mem­o­ry loss and dif­fi­cul­ty con­cen­trat­ing dur­ing and short­ly after­ward, experts say. But a vast major­i­ty improve. About 15 per­cent, or rough­ly 360,000 of the nation’s 2.4 million…

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