News on physical, cognitive and emotional fitness

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 11, 2009

Nice week­end read­ing mate­r­i­al — recent news reiforc­ing emerg­ing trends on phys­i­cal, cog­ni­tive and emo­tion­al fit­ness, but with new twists. Fit teens could be smarter teens “Researchers from Swe­den and USC exam­ined data on 1.2 mil­lion Swedish men born between 1950 and 1976 who also enlist­ed for the coun­try’s manda­to­ry mil­i­tary ser­vice. They looked at…

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Brain Training: It Works, and It Doesn’t Work

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 13, 2009 |

The IMPACT study which we report­ed on in Decem­ber 2007, fund­ed by Posit Sci­ence, con­duct­ed by the Mayo Clin­ic and USC Davis, has just announced pub­li­ca­tion at the Jour­nal of the Amer­i­can Geri­atrics Soci­ety. Ref­er­ence: — Smith et al. A Cog­ni­tive Train­ing Pro­gram Designed Based on Prin­ci­ples of Brain Plas­tic­i­ty: Results from the Improve­ment in…

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Cognitive screenings and Alzheimer’s Disease

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 10, 2008 |

The Alzheimer’s Foun­da­tion of Amer­i­ca just released a thought­ful report advo­cat­ing for wide­spread cog­ni­tive screen­ings after the age of 65 (55 giv­en the right con­di­tions). Accord­ing to the press release, — “The report shat­ters unsub­stan­ti­at­ed crit­i­cism and instead empha­sizes the safe­ty and cost-effec­­tive­­ness of these tools and calls on Con­gress to devel­op a nation­al dementia…

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Towards a Healthy Living & Cognitive Health Agenda

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 25, 2008

Here you have the Novem­ber edi­tion of our month­ly newslet­ter cov­er­ing cog­ni­tive health 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. Thank you for your inter­est, atten­tion and par­tic­i­pa­tion in our Sharp­Brains com­mu­ni­ty. As always, we appreciate…

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Brain Fitness 2: Sight & Sound, at PBS

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 21, 2008 |

PBS recent­ly announced the sec­ond install­ment of their pop­u­lar Brain Fit­ness Pro­gram show, and released this trail­er via YouTube: Watch: Brain Fit­ness 2: Sight & Sound (2:30) Descrip­tion: Join host Peter Coy­ote in “Brain Fit­ness 2: Sight & Sound,” the fol­low-up to “The Brain Fit­ness Pro­gram,” as he explores the brain’s abil­i­ty to change and…

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