Brain Fitness Newsletter: December Edition

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 30, 2007 |

I hope you are hav­ing a joy­ful hol­i­day sea­son, and wish you a Hap­py and Pros­per­ous 2008. The Brain Fit­ness field has made a great deal of progress in 2007, and we are look­ing for­ward the New Year.  Here you are have the Month­ly Digest of our Most Pop­u­lar Blog Posts. You can con­sid­er it your…

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Cognitive Fitness and Brain Improvement: 10 Debunked Myths

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 30, 2007 |

Over the last year we have inter­viewed a num­ber of lead­ing brain health and fit­ness sci­en­tists and prac­ti­tion­ers world­wide to learn about their research and thoughts, and have news to report. What can we say today that we could­n’t have said only 10 years ago? That what neu­ro­science pio­neer San­ti­a­go Ramon y Cajal claimed in…

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Brain Fitness Software and Training Games

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 16, 2007 |

Unless you have been liv­ing in a cave, you have read by now mul­ti­ple arti­cles about the brain train­ing and brain exer­cise craze: sudoku, Nin­ten­do BrainAge, mul­ti­ple online games, soft­ware like Mind­Fit and Posit Sci­ence… If you are look­ing for some fun men­tal stim­u­la­tion now, here you have our selec­tion of Brain Teasers. Now, how…

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Posit Science, Nintendo Brain Training, Dakim…WebMD on Brain Fitness.

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 21, 2006 |

Good Web­MD 4‑page arti­cle on Brain Fit­ness pro­grams for seniors. Check Keep­ing Your Brain Fit for Life:Software com­pa­nies are offer­ing new pro­grams that promise to keep your brain sharp as you get old­er. Some quotes: — “The notion of brain fit­ness has even invad­ed pop­u­lar cul­ture. In April, Nin­ten­do released Brain Age, a Japan­ese-inspired, hand­held video…

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