Transcript: Q&A with Alvaro Fernandez about The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness

By SharpBrains | January 11, 2014

You can now read the full tran­script of yes­ter­day’s Q&A ses­sion on a vari­ety of brain health and fit­ness top­ics, from mem­o­ry improve­ment to heart rate mon­i­tors, exer­cise, med­i­ta­tion, “Grain Brain,” brain train­ing, and more. A cou­ple of good exchanges: Ques­tion by Stephen Jep­son What spe­cif­ic phys­i­cal activ­i­ties con­tribute to the great­est changes in the brain…

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(Some) New Yorker articles are bogus

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 12, 2013

I love read­ing the New York­er. I have writ­ten before about bogus brain games, and about bogus brain train­ing claims. We have pub­lished a 10-ques­­tion check­list to help con­sumers make informed deci­sions. All this is to say I was sur­prised to read a recent New York­er blog arti­cle titled “Brain games are bogus.” If you…

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New $1 million grant to study working memory training in children with fragile X

By SharpBrains | February 14, 2013

MIND Insti­tute researchers receive $1 mil­lion grant to study cog­ni­tive train­ing in chil­dren with frag­ile X (UC Davis Health Sys­tem News): “Researchers at the UC Davis MIND Insti­tute will exam­ine whether chil­dren and youth with frag­ile X syn­drome can improve their work­ing mem­o­ry, cog­ni­tion and behav­ior by using an online com­put­er-based cog­ni­tive train­ing pro­gram, through a new…

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Upcoming webinar: The State of the Dig­i­tal Brain Health Mar­ket (Jan­u­ary 30th, 2013)

By SharpBrains | December 27, 2012

We will dis­cuss the main find­ings and inno­va­tion opportunities/ chal­lenges iden­ti­fied in Sharp­Brains’ new mar­ket report The Dig­i­tal Brain Health Mar­ket 2012–2020: Web-based, mobile and bio­met­rics-based tech­nol­ogy to assess, mon­i­tor and enhance cog­ni­tion and brain func­tion­ing. When: Wednes­day, Jan­u­ary 30th, 2013, 1–2.30pm US East­ern Time (live webi­nar will be record­ed for lat­er view­ing by registrants)

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