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Marbles: The Brain Store secures $10MM credit to open new “brain fitness” stores

January 15, 2016 by SharpBrains

Marbles_storesSiena Lend­ing Clos­es $10MM Facil­i­ty for Mar­bles: The Brain Store (ABL Advisor):

“Siena Lend­ing Group LLC announces the com­ple­tion of a three-year $10 mil­lion cred­it facil­i­ty for Mar­bles: The Brain Store (“Mar­bles”) to refi­nance their exist­ing senior debt and to sup­port their store growth require­ments. [Read more…] about Mar­bles: The Brain Store secures $10MM cred­it to open new “brain fit­ness” stores

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: brain, brain store, Brain-Fitness, brain-fitness-market, Brain-health, gadgets, games, Marbles, toys

Sneak peak into the Preliminary Agenda @ 2014 SharpBrains Virtual Summit

August 14, 2014 by SharpBrains

2014_SharpBrains_Virtual_Summit_Shaping the Practice and the Future of Brain FitnessHeads-up: If you want to join 20+ con­firmed world-class speak­ers and 100+ pro­fes­sion­als at the fore­front of brain health and applied neu­ro­science, please Reg­is­ter now and help us final­ize the fas­ci­nat­ing Sum­mit Agenda:

Tues­day, Octo­ber 28, 2014

  • 8:15–9:45am. The State of the Brain Fit­ness Move­ment: demo­graphic, sci­en­tific, and mar­ket trends, explained
  • 10:00–11:30am. Inno­v­a­tive part­ner­ships to improve life­long learn­ing, brain health, and cus­tomer satisfaction
  • 12.30–2pm. How to har­ness videogames and big data to deliv­er per­son­al­ized cog­ni­tive training
  • 3–4:30pm. Max­i­miz­ing the men­tal health and per­for­mance of lead­ers, athletes…and astronauts

[Read more…] about Sneak peak into the Pre­lim­i­nary Agen­da @ 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Summit

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Alzheimer’s Research and Pre­ven­tion Foundation, Applied Neuroscience, Baycrest, big data, Brain-Fitness, brain-fitness-market, Brain-health, Brain-Training, brain-training-market, cog­ni­tive training, Cogniciti, Dig­i­tal Artefacts, fitbrains, Heart­Math, Rosetta Stone, sleep genius, The Arrow­smith Program, videogames

Brain Training and Cognitive Assessment Market Surpassed $1.3 Billion In 2013

January 23, 2014 by SharpBrains

Heads-up: We just announced a new intel­li­gence pack­age aimed at edu­ca­tion, health, gam­ing and tech­nol­o­gy exec­u­tives and innovators.

“Many mar­ket reports pro­vide lit­tle val­ue for the mon­ey. This mar­ket report by Sharp­Brains is the pre­cise oppo­site. Its wealth of data and analy­sis pro­vides very valu­able strate­gic and busi­ness devel­op­ment guid­ance to orga­ni­za­tions at the fron­tier of health and well­ness,” says Alexan­dra More­house, VP of Brand Man­age­ment at Kaiser Per­ma­nente. [Read more…] about Brain Train­ing and Cog­ni­tive Assess­ment Mar­ket Sur­passed $1.3 Bil­lion In 2013

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Filed Under: Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Advanced-Brain-Technologies, Akili Interactive Labs, Arrowsmith Program, Atentiv, beeMedic, Blue Marble, Brain-Center-America, brain-fitness-market, Brain-Resource, brain-training-market, C8 Sciences, Cambridge Cognition, CNS-Vital-Signs, cogmed, Cogniciti, cognifit, cognitive assessment market, cognitive health market, CogState, CompuMedics, Dakim, Deymed, Digital Artefacts, E-Hub, Emotiv, heartmath, Helicor, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, InterCure, Learning-Enhancement-Corporation, LearningRx, lumos-labs, Marbles:-The-Brain-Store, market intelligence, market-report, MedInteract, Memory Training Centers of America, Mindset Works, NeoCorta, Neurocog Trials, Neuronix, NeuroScan, NeuroSky, NeuroTrax, NeuroVigil, OculusVR, PAR, Pearson, Pfizer, Play Attention, Pocket Neurobics, Posit-Science-Corporation, Rosetta Stone, Scientific Learning Corporation, scientific-brain-training, SmartBrain Technology, Thought Technology, Ultrasis, United-BioSource, Vigorous-Mind, Vivity-Labs, Wild-Divine

Market Report: Transforming Brain Health with Digital Tools — The State of the Brain Fitness Market 2010

March 10, 2011 by Alvaro Fernandez

In hon­or of Brain Aware­ness Week (March 14–20th), any­one who reg­is­ters to par­tic­i­pate in the 2011 Sharp­Brains Sum­mit BEFORE MARCH 20TH will obtain a com­pli­men­tary 207-page PDF copy of the full mar­ket report Trans­form­ing Brain Health with Dig­i­tal Tools to Assess, Enhance and Treat Cog­ni­tion Across the Lifes­pan — The State of the Brain Fit­ness Mar­ket 2010. Please note that the nor­mal price of this report is $1,295. This report includes pro­pri­etary sur­veys, mar­ket data and in-depth analy­sis of 32 com­pa­nies, 10 Inno­va­tion Case Stud­ies pre­pared by 2010 Inno­va­tion Awards Win­ners and Final­ists, and 23 Research Exec­u­tive Briefs pre­pared by lead­ing scientists.

Report Sum­mary

This 207-page report tracks devel­op­ments at over thir­ty pub­lic and pri­vate com­pa­nies offer­ing dig­i­tal tools to assess, enhance and repair brain-based cog­ni­tive and self-reg­u­la­tion func­tions and pro­vides impor­tant indus­try data, insights and analy­sis to help investors, exec­u­tives, entre­pre­neurs, and pol­icy mak­ers nav­i­gate the oppor­tu­ni­ties and risks of this rapid­ly grow­ing field. The report dis­cusses the impli­ca­tions of [Read more…] about Mar­ket Report: Trans­form­ing Brain Health with Dig­i­tal Tools — The State of the Brain Fit­ness Mar­ket 2010

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Filed Under: Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Advanced Brain Tech­nolo­gies, Applied Cog­ni­tive Engi­neer­ing, Arrow­smith School, Brain Cen­ter Amer­ica, brain-fitness-market, brain-health-market, Brain-Resource, CNS-Vital-Signs, Cog­ni­tive Fit­ness and Inno­v­a­tive Ther­a­pies, Cog­nic­iti, Cog­niFit, cogmed, CogState, Dakim, E-Hub, Houghton Mif­flin, Learn­ing Enhance­ment Cor­po­ra­tion, Learn­ingRx, Lexia Learn­ing, lumos-labs, Mar­bles: The Brain Store, market-report, Med­In­ter­act, Mem­ory Train­ing Cen­ters of Amer­ica, Mind360, MyBrain­Trainer, Neo­Corta, Neu­ro­Trax, NovaV­i­sion, Posit Sci­ence, Sci­en­tific Brain Train­ing, Sci­en­tific Learn­ing, Telos Inter­na­tional, Ultra­sis, United-BioSource, Vibrant­Brains, Vig­or­ous Mind, Viv­ity Labs

Update: Preparing Society for the Cognitive Age, and Industry Webinar

August 13, 2009 by Alvaro Fernandez

Here you have the August edi­tion of our month­ly newslet­ter cov­er­ing cog­ni­tive health and Brain Fitnessbrain fit­ness top­ics. Please remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive this Newslet­ter by email, using the box at the top of this page.

Sci­en­tif­ic pub­li­ca­tion Fron­tiers in Neu­ro­science recent­ly pub­lished a spe­cial issue on Aug­ment­ing Cog­ni­tion, and invit­ed me to con­tribute with an arti­cle titled Prepar­ing Soci­ety for the Cog­ni­tive Age. Ground­break­ing brain research has occurred over the last 20 years. The oppor­tu­ni­ty to improve brain health and per­for­mance is immense, but we need to ensure the mar­ket­place matures in a ratio­nal and sus­tain­able man­ner, both through health­care and non-health­care chan­nels. Click Here to read my article.

Announce­ments

In May 2009 Sharp­Brains pub­lished The State of the Brain Fit­ness Soft­ware Mar­ket 2009, the main indus­try report for lead­ing orga­ni­za­tions prepar­ing their mem­bers, their clients, and their patients for the cog­ni­tive age. 150-pages long, the report includes a mar­ket sur­vey with 2,000+ respon­dents, detailed analy­sis of 20+ ven­dors, research briefs writ­ten by 12 lead­ing sci­en­tists and data and trends for 4 major cus­tomer segments.webinar

Below we share the full Exec­u­tive Sum­ma­ry of the report and announce an exclu­sive webi­nar on Sep­tem­ber 29th to dis­cuss the State of the Mar­ket in more depth with buy­ers of the report.

To order the report and access both the report and the webi­nar, you can click Here. (Only $975 ‑a 25% dis­count- using Dis­count Code Frontiers2009 before Sep­tem­ber 28th).

State of the Market

The brain fit­ness field holds excit­ing promise for the future while pre­sent­ing clear oppor­tu­ni­ties and chal­lenges today. The good news is that there are more tools avail­able than ever before to assess and train a vari­ety of cog­ni­tive skills. The bad news is that there are no mag­ic pills and that con­sumers, while sat­is­fied over­all, seem con­fused by com­pet­ing claims on how to reduce one’s “brain age.” We do see signs that this ear­ly-stage mar­ket can mature in a more ratio­nal, struc­tured man­ner; but there is much work to be done. We esti­mate that the size of the U.S. brain fit­ness soft­ware (i.e., appli­ca­tions designed to assess or enhance cog­ni­tive abil­i­ties) mar­ket in 2008 was [Read more…] about Update: Prepar­ing Soci­ety for the Cog­ni­tive Age, and Indus­try Webinar

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Advanced-Brain-Technologies, Allstate, Applied-Cognitive-Engineering, brain-age, Brain-Center-America, brain-fitness-market, brain-fitness-training, Brain-Resource, brain-training-market, CNS-Vital-Signs, cogmed, cognifit, cognitive, cognitive-abilities, Cognitive-Age, Cognitive-Drug-Research, cognitive-reserve, cognitive-screenings, CogState, Dakim, Houghton-Mifflin, innovation, Learning-Enhancement-Corporation, lumos-labs, nintendo, NovaVision, OptumHealth, Posit-Science, readmissions, scientific-brain-training, Scientific-Learning, software, TransAnalytics, US-Army, USA-Hockey-League, videogames, Vigorous-Mind, Vivity-Labs

Update: Learning about Learning/ more on Brain Age

February 1, 2009 by Alvaro Fernandez

Here you have the Jan­u­ary edi­tion of our month­ly newslet­ter cov­er­ing cog­ni­tive Brain Fitnesshealth 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.

Bird’s Eye View 

Brain fit­ness heads towards its tip­ping point: How do you know when some­thing is mov­ing towards a Glad­wellian tip­ping point? When health insur­ance com­pa­nies and pub­lic pol­i­cy mak­ers launch sig­nif­i­cant ini­tia­tives. Dr. Ger­ard Finnemore pro­vides a mar­ket overview, based on Sharp­Brains’ client webi­nar held last December.

Ten Reflec­tions on Cog­ni­tive Health and Assess­ments: Here are 10 high­lights from sev­er­al stim­u­lat­ing Jan­u­ary events:  Sym­po­sium on Adap­tive Tech­nol­o­gy for the Aging (by Ari­zona State Uni­ver­si­ty), Health Blog­gers’ Sum­mit (by Con­sumer Reports), Trau­mat­ic Brain Injury (by Vet­er­an Affairs in Palo Alto), and a new Alzheimer’s/ Demen­tia Expert Pan­el orga­nized by the city of San Francisco.

News and Events

Nin­ten­do Brain Age vs. Cross­word Puz­zles: we need much pub­lic edu­ca­tion in order to help con­sumers sep­a­rate real­i­ty from hope from hype. Nin­ten­do is not help­ing, nei­ther is media reporting.

Col­lec­tion of recent news: includ­ing train­ing for senior fit­ness train­ers, reports on the impor­tance of pur­pose,  on old­er dri­ver safe­ty, and more.

Upcom­ing events: I will be speak­ing soon at the New York Acad­e­my of Med­i­cine, the Amer­i­can Soci­ety on Aging/ NCOA con­fer­ence, and the Sil­ver­ing Work­force Sum­mit at the Uni­ver­si­ty of North Car­oli­na. Let me know if you are attend­ing any.

Edu­ca­tion and Learning 

Learn­ing about Learn­ing: an Inter­view with Joshua Wait­zkin: Scott Bar­ry Kauf­man inter­views “child prodi­gy” Joshua Wait­zkin on The Art of Learn­ing. Many fas­ci­nat­ing insights, includ­ing “I think los­ing my first Nation­al Chess Cham­pi­onship was the great­est thing that ever hap­pened to me, because it helped me avoid many of the psy­cho­log­i­cal traps…(associated with being called a “child prodigy”)”.

Resources to help stu­dents build emo­tion­al intel­li­gence: Daniel Gole­man intro­duces edu­ca­tors and par­ents to a new book that “adds an impor­tant tool to the emo­tion­al intel­li­gence kit: mind­ful­ness, a moment-by-moment aware­ness of one’s inter­nal state and exter­nal environment.”

Resources

Top 10 Cog­ni­tive Health and Brain Fit­ness Books: Here you have The 10 Most Pop­u­lar Brain Fit­ness & Cog­ni­tive Health Books, based on book pur­chas­es by Sharp­Brains’ read­ers dur­ing 2008.

10-Ques­tion Pro­gram Eval­u­a­tion Check­list: To help con­sumers and pro­fes­sion­als nav­i­gate through the grow­ing num­ber of pro­grams mak­ing “brain fit­ness” or “brain train­ing” claims, we pub­lished last year this Eval­u­a­tion Check­list. Now we are mak­ing the Check­list avail­able as a Book­mark giv­en recent requests by uni­ver­si­ties and con­fer­ence organizers.

Brain Teas­er

Brain Teas­er to Exer­cise your Mem­o­ry and Rea­son­ing Skills: Dr. Pas­cale Mich­e­lon offers a stim­u­lat­ing teas­er that not only helps exer­cise our brain but also edu­cates us on how and why the same activ­i­ty may exer­cise dif­fer­ent brains dif­fer­ent­ly — depend­ing on where we are from.

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