Study debunks 4 common myths about brain training and lifelong cognitive enhancement

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 7, 2017

— If the media is your main source of infor­ma­tion about brain train­ing and cog­ni­tive enhance­ment, you will prob­a­bly believe the fol­low­ing: 1) All brain train­ing is the same… 2) …and it sim­ply does­n’t work. 3) Com­mer­cial brain train­ing pro­grams, espe­cial­ly, don’t work. 4) How could they work? Genet­ics is des­tiny, aging is a pre­de­ter­mined process…so by age 60…

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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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Study: Computerized cognitive training may help patients with mild cognitive impairment (less so once diagnosed with dementia)

By SharpBrains | November 17, 2016

Brain Gain: Com­put­er­ized Train­ing May Boost Cog­ni­tion in MCI (Med­scape): “Com­put­er­ized cog­ni­tive train­ing (CCT) for patients with mild cog­ni­tive impair­ment (MCI) appears to have a ben­e­fi­cial effect on glob­al cog­ni­tion, mem­o­ry, and atten­tion and improves psy­choso­cial func­tion­ing, includ­ing depres­sive symptoms, 

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Update: To thrive in the Knowledge Age, prioritize Deep work, avoid the Shallows, and Self-Quantify

By SharpBrains | October 25, 2016

————— Time for a new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains’ e‑newsletter. Hap­py read­ing! New think­ing: To boost pro­duc­tiv­i­ty and cog­ni­tion in the Knowl­edge Age, pri­or­i­tize Deep work, avoid the Shal­lows, and Self-Quan­ti­fy Reports high­light need for cog­ni­tive health inno­va­tion giv­en aging glob­al pop­u­la­tion Increased access to cog­ni­tive screen­ings in pri­ma­ry care set­tings serv­ing old­er adults Under­stand your…

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The National Institute of Mental Health gives $2M grant to identify factors that make working memory training work (or not)

By SharpBrains | October 24, 2016

Under­stand­ing Indi­vid­ual Dif­fer­ences: UC River­side psy­chol­o­gy pro­fes­sor receives $1.9 mil­lion grant to study mem­o­ry train­ing (press release): “Aaron Seitz, a psy­chol­o­gy pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, River­side and the direc­tor of the UCR Brain Game Cen­ter for men­tal fit­ness and well­be­ing, and Susanne Jaeg­gi, an asso­ciate pro­fes­sor at the school of edu­ca­tion at UC…

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