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Cognitive Health Pioneers: Thank You!

July 24, 2008 by Alvaro Fernandez

Busy as we have been, we only recent­ly com­piled the list of orga­ni­za­tions who have pur­chased our Brain Fit­ness Mar­ket Report so far. We were impressed by the qual­i­ty and vari­ety rep­re­sent­ed, and the cross-sec­tor demand for qual­i­ty infor­ma­tion in the emerg­ing brain fitness/ cog­ni­tive health cat­e­go­ry. See­ing the list helps us pri­or­i­tize efforts and cov­er­age of mar­ket and research news and trends.

Below you have a selec­tion of main cat­e­gories, and a few select­ed clients:

  • Research cen­ters and uni­ver­si­ties: Har­vard Med­ical School, US Army Research Lab, MaRS Dis­cov­ery Dis­trict, Ore­gon Cen­ter for Applied Sci­ence, Uni­ver­si­ty of Texas at Austin, Uni­ver­si­ty of Michigan.
  • Old­er adults orga­ni­za­tions and com­mu­ni­ties: AARP, Sun­rise Senior Liv­ing, Bel­mont Vil­lage Senior Living.
  • Health­care Providers: Sut­ter Health, Memo­r­i­al Hos­pi­tal Health Sys­tem, Neu­ro­Care Net­work, Mindme­di Clin­ic. [Read more…] about Cog­ni­tive Health Pio­neers: Thank You!

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Brain Training Presentation and Seminars

May 29, 2008 by Alvaro Fernandez

We had an infor­ma­tive webi­nar this Tues­day, dis­cussing the State of the Brain Fit­ness Soft­ware Brain Fitness Market Reportmar­ket today, based on the find­ings in our Mar­ket Report. In case you missed it, you can find below a link to check out and down­load the Pow­er­Point slides I pre­sent­ed (just the visu­als, with­out audio) to cov­er these areas:

1- The Four Pil­lars for Brain Health

2- Cog­ni­tive Abil­i­ties can Be Ass­esed and Trained

3- An emerg­ing field, and poised to grow

4- A con­fus­ing play­er land­scape. Think “What For”, not “Best”.

Link: State of the Brain Fit­ness Soft­ware Mar­ket 2008

Please remem­ber that we have 2 upcom­ing webi­na­rs, and you can still register!:

[Read more…] about Brain Train­ing Pre­sen­ta­tion and Seminars

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Report: The State of the Brain Fitness/ Training Software Market 2008

March 11, 2008 by Alvaro Fernandez

After many months of work (and we hope many new neu­rons and stronger synaps­es in our brains), we have just released our inau­gur­al report on the emerg­ing Brain Fit­ness Soft­ware Mar­ket, Brain Fitness Software the first to define the brain fit­ness and train­ing soft­ware mar­ket and ana­lyze the size and trends of its four cus­tomer seg­ments. We esti­mate the size of the US brain fit­ness soft­ware mar­ket at $225M in2007, up from $100m in 2005 (50% CAGR). The two seg­ments that fueled the mar­ket growth: con­sumers (grew from $5m to $80m, 300% CAGR) and health­care & insur­ance providers (grew from $36m to $65m, 35% CAGR).

High­lights from The State of the Brain Fit­ness Soft­ware Mar­ket 2008 report include:

1) 2007 was a sem­i­nal year for the US Brain Fit­ness soft­ware mar­ket, which reached $225 mil­lion in rev­enues – up from an esti­mat­ed $100 mil­lion in 2005.

2) Over 20 com­pa­nies are offer­ing tools to assess and train cog­ni­tive skills to four cus­tomer seg­ments: con­sumers; health­care and insur­ance providers; K12 school sys­tems; and For­tune 1000 com­pa­nies, the mil­i­tary, and sports teams.

3) The Nin­ten­do Brain Age/ Brain Train­ing phe­nom­e­non has dri­ven much of the growth. The con­sumer seg­ment grew from a few mil­lion in 2005 to an esti­mat­ed $80 mil­lion in 2007.

4) There is major con­fu­sion in the mar­ket, so edu­ca­tion will be key. Users and buy­ers need help to nav­i­gate the maze of prod­ucts and claims.

[Read more…] about Report: The State of the Brain Fitness/ Train­ing Soft­ware Mar­ket 2008

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Brain Fitness Newsletter: November Edition

November 30, 2007 by Alvaro Fernandez

Brain exercise, brain exercisesHere you are have the Month­ly Digest of our Most Pop­u­lar Blog Posts. You can con­sid­er it your month­ly Brain Exer­cise Magazine.

(Also, remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive our RSS feed, check our Top­ics sec­tion, and sub­scribe to our month­ly newslet­ter at the top of this page if you want to receive this Digest by email).

Grat­i­tude is a very impor­tant emo­tion to cul­ti­vate, as Pro­fes­sor Robert Emmons tells us in this inter­view, based on his last book. Please take some time to read it, and to find at least one thing you are thank­ful for-it will be good for your health.

We are grate­ful about a very stim­u­lat­ing November:

Brain Fit­ness Mar­ket News

10 Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy Trends: a lead­ing indus­try orga­ni­za­tion released their Top 10 Neu­roTrends for 2007, and brain fit­ness mat­ters appeared in 3 of them.

Thank Boomers for Buff­ing Up Brain Mar­ket: great overview of the mar­ket from a tech­nol­o­gy point of view, quot­ing our mar­ket pro­jec­tions. To clar­i­fy the num­bers men­tioned: we project $225m in the US alone for the brain fit­ness soft­ware mar­ket (grow­ing from $70m in 2003), bro­ken-down as fol­lows: $80m for the Con­sumer seg­ment, $60m in K12 Edu­ca­tion, $50m in Clin­i­cal appli­ca­tions, and $35m in the Cor­po­rate seg­ment. The Con­sumer seg­ment, with a healthy aging val­ue propo­si­tion, is the most recent one but the most rapid­ly grow­ing.

Exer­cise On the Brain: a NYT OpEd: a wide­ly read opin­ion piece in the New York Times, writ­ten by 2 neu­ro­sci­en­tists, that some­how seems to miss the research behind the val­ue of men­tal stim­u­la­tion and cog­ni­tive train­ing. Oth­er neu­ro­science teams and us write let­ters to the edi­tor that go unpub­lished. Should you have any con­tacts with jour­nal­ists, please ask them to con­tact us: we are always hap­py to serve as a resource to the media.

Posit Sci­ence @ GSA: well-designed Brain Train­ing Works: a time­ly heads up on how well-designed com­put­er-based pro­grams can be a great com­ple­ment to oth­er inter­ven­tions. We will be inter­view­ing the lead­ing researcher behind that study dur­ing the next 2 weeks, so keep tuned!

Brain and Mind News and Arti­cles: a vari­ety of links to good media reports, includ­ing a spec­tac­u­lar spe­cial on mem­o­ry in Nation­al Geographic.

News You Can Use

Mar­i­an Dia­mond on the brain: lead­ing neu­ro­sci­en­tist Mar­i­an Dia­mond, now 81, shares her pre­scrip­tion for life­long brain health- diet, exer­cise, chal­lenge, new­ness and ten­der lov­ing care.

From Med­i­ta­tion to MBSR (Mind­ful­ness Based Stress Reduc­tion): a report on the ben­e­fits of med­i­ta­tion and how it is becom­ing more main­stream in medicine.

Teasers

50 Mind and Brain Games for adults: you may have seen these teasers, but we want to alert you we have opened a new sec­tion in the site where you can eas­i­ly find our grow­ing col­lec­tion of teasers

Your Haiku, please?: a friend­ly chal­lenge to your brain.

Edu­ca­tion and Life­long Learning

Car­ol Dweck on Mind­sets, Learn­ing and Intel­li­gence: we found a fas­ci­nat­ing inter­view on the impor­tance on hav­ing a growth and learn­ing ori­ent­ed mind­set. Both for kids and adults.

Is Intel­li­gence Innate and Fixed?: some reflec­tions based on biology.

Cor­po­rate Train­ing, Well­ness and Leadership

Cog­ni­tive Fit­ness and The Future of Work: an excel­lent con­cept map on how neu­ro­science may influ­ence the work­place of the future, drawn in real time as I spoke at an Insti­tute for the Future event.

Emo­tion­al Intel­li­gence and Faces: how many uni­ver­sal emo­tions and facial expres­sions are there?

Events

Use It or Lose It, and Cells that Fire togeth­er Wire togeth­er: I spoke at the Ital­ian Con­sulate in San Fran­cis­co, where we explored some of the basic con­cepts we should all know about how our brains and mind work.

Let me prac­tice the Grat­i­tude concept…Thank You for your atten­tion and participation!

You can also enjoy our pre­vi­ous edi­tions of this month­ly digest:

- Octo­ber

- Sep­tem­ber

- August

- July

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Neurotechnology Trends, and the Neurosoftware Market

November 2, 2007 by Alvaro Fernandez

The Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy Indus­try Orga­ni­za­tion (NIO) just announced the top ten emerg­ing areas of neu­ro­science that will “impact the future of treat­ments for brain and ner­vous sys­tem”: Top 10 Neu­ro­science Trends in 2007.

It pro­vides superb food for thought. And some of them will sound famil­iar to read­ers of this blog:

* 6. Nor­mal brain aging gets more atten­tion: More research and devel­op­ment is being focused on think­ing impair­ments that only par­tial­ly lim­it inde­pen­dence and qual­i­ty of life for senior cit­i­zens, adults and school aged chil­dren. Neu­rosoft­ware will pen­e­trate nurs­ing homes and schools, as brain fit­ness soft­ware becomes new first-line treat­ment strategy.
* 8. Pre­ven­tion evi­dence grows: You are what you eat; smok­ing is as bad as we thought; and new stud­ies reveal the effects of envi­ron­men­tal sub­stances on Alzheimer’s dis­ease, Parkin­son’s dis­ease and others.
* 9. Emo­tion­al dis­or­ders research advances:  New research con­tin­ues to link neu­ro­ge­n­e­sis to treat­ment of depres­sion.  A bet­ter under­stand­ing of PTSD should lead to new treat­ment regimes.

Want to read prob­a­bly the best overview of the neurosoftware/ brain fit­ness soft­ware mar­ket? Check this arti­cle, fresh from the oven: Thank Boomers for Buff­ing Up Brain Mar­ket.

To clar­i­fy the num­bers men­tioned: we project $225m in the US alone (grow­ing from $70m in 2003), bro­ken-down as fol­lows: $80m for the Con­sumer seg­ment, $60m in K12 Edu­ca­tion, $50m in Clin­i­cal appli­ca­tions, and $35m in the Cor­po­rate seg­ment. The Con­sumer seg­ment, with a healthy aging val­ue propo­si­tion, is the most recent one but the most rapid­ly growing.

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This is a Brain Fitness Center.

December 12, 2006 by Alvaro Fernandez

Today we issued the fol­low­ing press release, and are work­ing hard to get every­thing ready by Jan­u­ary (every­thing works now, but we want to pol­ish it). Please view this web­site as research in action, a liv­ing hypoth­e­sis. We are doing this because we love to learn and help. Please help us learn-feel free to give us any sug­ges­tion, feed­back, crit­i­cism. We are in the busi­ness of engag­ing brains.
The Sharp­Brains team
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Decem­ber 12, 2006 08:01 AM East­ern Time

A New Year’s Fitness Resolution for your Head

– Sharp­Brains Is the First Online Brain Fit­ness Cen­ter to Offer Eval­u­a­tions, Men­tal Exer­cise Pro­grams and Per­son­al Coach­ing to Improve Mem­o­ry, Con­cen­tra­tion, and Stress Man­age­ment –

New Year’s Resolutions

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Getting in shape is at the top of almost every­one’s list of New Year’s res­o­lu­tions. How­ev­er, this hol­i­day sea­son, lead­ing experts are encour­ag­ing Amer­i­cans to join a dif­fer­ent kind of health club: one for their brains.SharpBrains.com is the first online brain fit­ness cen­ter ded­i­cat­ed to pro­vid­ing per­son­al­ized brain fit­ness eval­u­a­tions; men­tal exer­cise pro­grams to stim­u­late the brain and improve stress man­age­ment; and per­son­al online men­tal exer­cise coach­ing. Sim­i­lar to a train­er at a phys­i­cal fit­ness cen­ter, Sharp­Brains’ cus­tomers can ini­tial­ly under­go an eval­u­a­tion of their needs fol­lowed by sub­se­quent rec­om­men­da­tions for a suit­able com­put­er-based pro­gram to tar­get and strength­en essen­tial core “men­tal muscles.“      

“Research has shown that con­trary to pop­u­lar belief, the brain is con­stant­ly under­go­ing neu­ro­ge­n­e­sis, the devel­op­ment of new neu­rons and den­drites,” said Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg, Clin­i­cal Pro­fes­sor of Neu­rol­o­gy at New York Uni­ver­si­ty School of Med­i­cine and Chief Sci­en­tif­ic Advi­sor & Co-Founder of Sharp­Brains. “Learn­ing and tar­get­ed men­tal exer­cise pro­motes neu­ro­ge­n­e­sis – the cre­ation of new neu­rons – just as mus­cle growth is pro­mot­ed through phys­i­cal exer­cise.” [Read more…] about This is a Brain Fit­ness Center.

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