Will self-driving vehicles lead to a surge of brain training?

By SharpBrains | February 3, 2020

Brain train­ing may be required for occu­pants of dri­ver­less vehi­cles (Traf­fic Tech­nol­o­gy): “A much-tout­ed per­ceived ben­e­fit of autonomous vehi­cle tech­nol­o­gy is that work­ing and a vari­ety of leisure activ­i­ties could be per­formed dur­ing the time freed up from being behind the wheel. However,

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Update: Humankind’s evolving quest to enhance the brain and the mind

By SharpBrains | January 27, 2020

___ Time for the first Sharp­Brains’ e‑newsletter in the new decade, fea­tur­ing a range of inspir­ing and (most­ly) promis­ing news about humankind’s evolv­ing quest to enhance the brain and the mind, and a few fun brain teasers :-) New think­ing: The Neu­ro­Gen­er­a­tion and Humankind’s Quest to Enhance the Brain UCSF to open inno­v­a­tive neu­rol­o­gy clin­ic to address…

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Trend: Growing interest in (and questions around) brain training centers for kids with special needs

By SharpBrains | January 13, 2020

___ Par­ents pay thou­sands for ‘brain train­ing’ to help kids with ADHD and autism. But does it work? (NBC News): “…As the num­ber of chil­dren diag­nosed with ADHD and autism surges in the U.S., accord­ing to fed­er­al data, and as par­ents become exas­per­at­ed with treat­ments that don’t work or involve med­ica­tions that car­ry the risk of…

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Attention, readers in India: Amazon.in includes The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness in Kindle Weekly Deal

By SharpBrains | October 13, 2019

_______________ We are proud that Ama­zon India has select­ed The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness: How to Opti­mize Brain Health and Per­for­mance at Any Age as part of its Kin­dle Week­ly Deal run­ning from Octo­ber 13th to the 17th — when many best­selling eBooks will be dis­count­ed to just 49 rupees. – To ben­e­fit from…

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Nintendo to release new version of Brain Age brain training game

By SharpBrains | October 7, 2019

Nin­ten­do res­ur­rects Brain Age on Switch (Ven­ture­Beat): “Nin­ten­do is going to bring back one of its biggest fran­chis­es on the hybrid Switch handheld/home con­sole. No, it’s not F‑Zero or Style Savvy. The com­pa­ny revealed in an announce­ment today that Brain Train­ing is com­ing to the Switch in Japan on Decem­ber 27.

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