Update: Retooling Use It or Lose It at New York Public Library

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 8, 2009

Here you have the Sep­tem­ber 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. In the cur­rent edi­tion of The Jour­nal on Active Aging, I dis­cuss why we need to Retool “Use…

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Education builds Cognitive Reserve for Alzheimers Disease Protection

By Dr. Pascale Michelon | December 13, 2008 |

Giv­en the grow­ing media cov­er­age men­tion­ing the terms Cog­ni­tive Reserve and Brain Reserve, you may be ask­ing your­self, “What exact­ly is my Cog­ni­tive (or Brain) Reserve?” The cog­ni­tive reserve hypoth­e­sis, test­ed in mul­ti­ple stud­ies, states that indi­vid­u­als with more cog­ni­tive reserve can expe­ri­ence more Alzheimer’s dis­ease pathol­o­gy in the brain (more plaques and tan­gles) without…

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Update: Global Consortium for Neurocognitive Fitness Innovation

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 30, 2008 |

As men­tioned before, the World Eco­nom­ic Forum asked me to write “an 800 words sum­ma­ry of your most com­pelling action­able idea on the chal­lenges of geron­tol­ogy”, in prepa­ra­tion for the Inau­gur­al Sum­mit of the Glob­al Agen­da that will take place Novem­ber 7 to 9th in Dubai.A good num­ber of Sharp­Brains read­ers and clients offered their…

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Alzheimer’s Risk and Prevention: the Cognitive Reserve

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 22, 2008

A cou­ple of recent research find­ings are mak­ing the media rounds, bring­ing much need­ed atten­tion to the high Alzheimer’s rates among Lati­nos and to pre­ven­tive approach­es based on the Cog­ni­tive Reserve — such as, what jobs we choose: More Alzheimer’s risk for His­pan­ics, stud­ies find (Inter­na­tion­al Her­ald Tri­bune): — Stud­ies sug­gest that many His­pan­ics may…

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Wellness Coaching for Brain Health and Fitness

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 30, 2008 |

We just received this quote of how a major health sys­tem is using our Brain Fit­ness Mar­ket Report: “At Sut­ter Health Part­ners we rec­og­nize the impor­tance of brain health and how much the health of the brain and the body are inter­de­pen­dent.  The mar­ket report helped us fur­ther tar­get our coach­ing efforts to inte­grate brain…

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Cognitive Development and Brain Research: Articles, Books, Papers (ASA)

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 28, 2007 |

We had a very fun ses­sion titled Teach­ing Brain Fit­ness in Your Com­mu­ni­ty at an Amer­i­can Soci­ety on Aging (ASA) con­fer­ence for health pro­fes­sion­als a cou­ple of weeks ago. Full house, with over 60 atten­dants and very good par­tic­i­pa­tion, show­ing great inter­est in the top­ic. I can’t wait to see the eval­u­a­tions. These are some…

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