Brain training seen as promising non-pharmacological method to enhance attention in healthy young adults

By SharpBrains | February 1, 2019

This brain train­ing app may help you stay focused, says new study (CNN): “Our dig­i­tal lives make con­cen­tra­tion difficult…A group of Cam­bridge uni­ver­si­ty researchers believes to have devel­oped a “fun” solu­tion to this mod­ern prob­lem. By play­ing a “brain train­ing” game, called Decoder, play­ers can increase their concentration.

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Study: One-week brain training can increase cognitive flexibility and reduce OCD symptoms

By SharpBrains | October 30, 2018

___ OCD symp­toms could be reduced with ‘brain-train­ing’ app, study says (UPI): “Peo­ple with obses­sive com­pul­sive dis­or­der could man­age their symp­toms, includ­ing exces­sive hand­wash­ing and con­t­a­m­i­na­tion fears, by using a “brain train­ing” app, accord­ing to its devel­op­ers. Researchers from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cam­bridge in Britain, who tested

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Brain Training vs Facebook/ Social Media: 1 — 0

By SharpBrains | September 21, 2018

___ Does Reg­u­lar Brain Train­ing Keep Sele­na Gomez at the Peak of Her Career? (YCB): “Sele­na Gomez hit the head­lines this week when she revealed to ELLE Mag­a­zine that, despite being one of the world’s most influ­en­tial celebri­ties online with 142 mil­lion fol­low­ers on Insta­gram alone, she actu­al­ly has no social media or pho­to editing…

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Want to feel more Calm, get some Headspace, and practice Mindfulness Daily?

By Greater Good Science Center | June 25, 2018

___ Let me ask again…want to feel more Calm, get some Head­space, and prac­tice Mind­ful­ness Dai­ly? There are apps for that—hundreds of them, besides the three I just men­tioned. These apps make a promise: Rather than invest­ing count­less hours and dol­lars in mind­ful­ness class­es or mind­­ful­­ness-based ther­a­py, we can choose to med­i­tate from the com­fort of…

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Digital brain health goes global: Savonix raises $5.1 million to commercialize mobile neurocognitive assessment in the US, China and Japan

By SharpBrains | June 14, 2017

— Savonix gets $5.1M to advance dig­i­tal neu­rocog­ni­tive assess­ment (Mobi­Health News): “San Fran­­cis­­co-based Savonix, mak­er of an app for neu­rocog­ni­tive assess­ment, has raised $5.1 mil­lion in a new round of fund­ing. Dig­iTx Part­ners led the round with addi­tion­al con­tri­bu­tion from ReThink Impact.

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French publisher Hachette Livre acquires majority stake in brain training app Peak

By SharpBrains | December 23, 2016

Brain-train­ing app Peak sells major­i­ty stake to French pub­lish­er Hachette (TechCrunch): “Some­thing of a sleep­er hit, the mak­ers of Peak — a sub­­scrip­­tion-based ser­vice specif­i­cal­ly designed to enter­tain a user while simul­ta­ne­ous­ly exer­cis­ing their cog­ni­tive skills — have sold a major­i­ty stake to French pub­lish­er Hachette Livre. Cre­at­ed by

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