Brain News: Lifelong Learning for Cognitive Health

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 30, 2009

Here you have the March edi­tion of our month­ly newslet­ter cov­er­ing cog­ni­tive health and brain fit­ness top­ics. Please remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive this Newslet­ter by email, using the box at the top of this page. I know I am biased — but do believe this Newslet­ter issue might well be our best…

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Cognitive, Brain News RoundUp

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 18, 2008

Inter­est­ing recent news: 1) A Par­a­digm Shift in Genet­ics (Philadel­phia Inquir­er) 2)  Con­fer­ence on Brain Devel­op­ment and Learn­ing: Mak­ing Sense of the Sci­ence (thanks Pete) 3) 1 in 5 vet­er­ans found with men­tal dis­or­der (Boston Globe) 4) Com­mon Med­ica­tions May Harm Mem­o­ry in Old­er Peo­ple (U.S. News & World Report) 5) Men More Like­ly to Devel­op Cog­ni­tive Prob­lems (Forbes) For more…

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Brain, Mind and Body Blogs

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 18, 2008

A cou­ple of great blog car­ni­val editions (col­lec­tions of blog posts around spe­cif­ic top­ics): — Encephalon: neu­ro­science and psy­chol­o­gy. — Grand Rounds: health and medicine.  And a good Radar Roundup of brain-relat­ed news. Note: our esti­mate for the whole mar­ket in 2007 is $225m, not $110m; and the Con­sumer Seg­ment (most­ly Nin­ten­do Brain Age/ Acad­e­my, but not all)…

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