Under new CEO, Lumosity to expand brain training platform with focus on applied skills and broader social, wellness factors

By SharpBrains | March 28, 2016 |

Lumosity’s Stum­ble Reveals How We Think About Think­ing (Buz­zFeed News): “The ads were per­va­sive, pop­ping up on CNN, Fox News, NPR, and Google search­es. And they were per­sua­sive: Play­ing Lumos­i­ty games would do your brain good…But these claims sound­ed a lit­tle too rosy to the Fed­er­al Trade Com­mis­sion, which 

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Sneak peak into the Preliminary Agenda @ 2014 SharpBrains Virtual Summit

By SharpBrains | August 14, 2014

Heads-up: If you want to join 20+ con­firmed world-class speak­ers and 100+ pro­fes­sion­als at the fore­front of brain health and applied neu­ro­science, please Reg­is­ter now and help us final­ize the fas­ci­nat­ing Sum­mit Agen­da: Tues­day, Octo­ber 28, 2014 8:15–9:45am. The State of the Brain Fit­ness Move­ment: demo­graphic, sci­en­tific, and mar­ket trends, explained 10:00–11:30am. Inno­v­a­tive part­ner­ships to improve lifelong…

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Brain Training and Cognitive Assessment Market Surpassed $1.3 Billion In 2013

By SharpBrains | January 23, 2014

Heads-up: We just announced a new intel­li­gence pack­age aimed at edu­ca­tion, health, gam­ing and tech­nol­o­gy exec­u­tives and inno­va­tors. “Many mar­ket reports pro­vide lit­tle val­ue for the mon­ey. This mar­ket report by Sharp­Brains is the pre­cise oppo­site. Its wealth of data and analy­sis pro­vides very valu­able strate­gic and busi­ness devel­op­ment guid­ance to orga­ni­za­tions at the frontier…

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Brain Training Market Talk, at MIT/ BoomerTech Series

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 16, 2009

We’ll have an excit­ing ses­sion in Palo Alto on Octo­ber 6th, as part of the BoomerTech series orga­nized by the MIT Club and Smart­Sil­vers. Let me share the details now. Fact or Fad: Who is Shap­ing the Brain Fit­ness Mar­ket?  Descrip­tion: Lots of buzz … Per­haps you think that “Senior Moments” are an inevitable part…

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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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Update: Preparing Society for the Cognitive Age, and Industry Webinar

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 13, 2009

Here you have the August 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. Sci­en­tif­ic pub­li­ca­tion Fron­tiers in Neu­ro­science recent­ly pub­lished a spe­cial issue on Aug­ment­ing Cog­ni­tion, and invit­ed me to contribute…

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