The ultimate in transfer from brain training to real-world outcomes: Reducing the risk of at-fault accidents by almost 50%

By SharpBrains | March 14, 2018 |

___ Can you train your brain to dri­ve longer into your gold­en years? (CTV News): “For the elder­ly, the loss of a driver’s licence could mean the end of inde­pen­dence and the begin­ning of a decline in health, with far-reach­ing con­se­quences in their dai­ly lives…New assis­tive dri­ving tech­nolo­gies seem like an obvi­ous solu­tion in the years…

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Checklist to Evaluate Brain Training and Brain Health Claims

By SharpBrains | December 23, 2011

To assist those look­ing for ideas, prod­ucts and ser­vices in the brain training/ health area, either as hol­i­day gifts or New Year Res­o­lu­tions, let us share this resource: Sharp­Brains’ Check­list to eval­u­ate Brain Train­ing and Brain Health claims, includ­ing Ten Ques­tions to Choose the Right Brain Fit­ness Pro­gram— and a brief expla­na­tion of why each question…

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10-Question Checklist to Assess Products Making Brain Fitness & Training Claims

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 29, 2010 |

To help con­sumers and pro­fes­sion­als nav­i­gate through the grow­ing num­ber of pro­grams mak­ing “brain fit­ness” or “brain train­ing” claims, we have pub­lished this Sharp­Brains Check­list: 10 Ques­tions to Choose the Right Brain Fit­ness Pro­gram — and a brief expla­na­tion of why each ques­tion is impor­tant: * 1. Are there sci­en­tists, ide­al­ly neu­ropsy­chol­o­gists, and a scientific…

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Brain Fitness Programs For Seniors Housing, Healthcare and Insurance Providers: Evaluation Checklist

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 24, 2008 |

Dur­ing the research phase before the pub­li­ca­tion of the spe­cial report Brain Fit­ness Cen­ters in Seniors Hous­ing — A Field in the Mak­ing, pub­lished by the Amer­i­can Seniors Hous­ing Asso­ci­a­tion (ASHA), we real­ized that there were equal amounts of inter­est and con­fu­sion among exec­u­tives and pro­fes­sion­als think­ing about adding com­put­er-based cog­ni­tive exer­cise prod­ucts to their…

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