Update: Videogames or Meditation?; Internship Program @ SharpBrains

By SharpBrains | July 31, 2011

First of all, an announce­ment. We are start­ing a Vir­tu­al Intern­ship Pro­gram @ Sharp­Brains, allow­ing full-time under­grad and grad stu­dents and post­docs to lead 100-hour projects joint­ly defined by them­selves and by Sharp­Brains. Inter­est­ed can­di­dates should Con­tact Us indi­cat­ing a) a pre­lim­i­nary project pro­pos­al (200 words or less), and b) brief bio and qual­i­fi­ca­tions (200 words or…

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Report: Boomers’ Ability to Make Financial Decisions Often Declines With Age

By SharpBrains | July 26, 2011

(Edi­tor’s Note: this time­ly new report illus­trates the need for inno­v­a­tive brain fit­ness inter­ven­tions focused on main­tain­ing if not enhanc­ing tar­get­ed cog­ni­tive func­tion­al­i­ty, such as dri­ving safe­ty or finan­cial deci­­sion-mak­ing, lever­ag­ing life­long neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty and cog­ni­tive reserve. What the report presents as inex­orable, some­what genet­i­cal­ly pre-pro­­grammed decline, it is not.) BMO Retire­ment Insti­tute Report: Boomers’ Abil­i­ty to…

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