5 Facts You Need To Know To Understand, Navigate And Enjoy The Digital Brain Health Revolution

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 12, 2017

— Hun­dreds of com­pa­nies around the globe, now includ­ing Elon Musk’s Neu­ralink and even Face­book,  are research­ing and devel­op­ing new ways to help brain own­ers be smarter, sharp­er, and health­i­er. What explains this flur­ry of activ­i­ty? Where may it be head­ed? To help you under­stand what’s going on, let me high­light five key facts that emerged…

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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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Witnessing an explosion of consumer-facing neurotechnologies to (potentially) harness lifelong neuroplasticity

By Apoorv Mathur | January 30, 2017

— Last week I shared some key sci­en­tif­ic, tech­no­log­i­cal and invest­ment trends rev­o­lu­tion­iz­ing Brain Health, based on my par­tic­i­pa­tion at the 2016 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit, and promised a sec­ond arti­cle more focused on the tech­nol­o­gy side of things. Here it is :-) Just a few weeks after the Sharp­Brains Sum­mit I also attend­ed CES 2017. While I enjoyed the myr­i­ad emerging…

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Akili Interactive Labs raises $30.5 million to develop FDA-approved brain training videogame for ADHD

By SharpBrains | January 25, 2016

. Videogame Mak­er Seeks to Treat ADHD (The Wall Street Jour­nal): “Doc­tors don’t usu­al­ly pre­scribe videogame play. But one com­pa­ny, which has just raised $30.5 mil­lion from ven­­ture-cap­i­­tal investors, hopes to change that. Boston-based Akili Inter­ac­tive Labs Inc. is devel­op­ing a videogame it believes could replace pills as a treat­ment for atten­­tion-deficit hyper­ac­tiv­i­ty disorder.

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Study: For healthy older adults, social brain training offers the most clear benefits

By SharpBrains | November 26, 2014

— If Home Brain Train­ing Apps Don’t Work, What Does? (Health­line): “In a study pub­lished online Nov. 18 in PLOS Med­i­cine, Aus­tralian researchers reviewed 52 pre­vi­ous stud­ies that looked at the ben­e­fits of com­put­er­ized brain train­ing soft­ware for 4,885 healthy seniors. While brain train­ing pro­grams like Lumos­i­ty, Cogmed, and Posit Sci­ence promise to help you…

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