Top 10 Brain Training Trends — Putting our Cognitive Reserve to Work

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 14, 2010 |

Yes­ter­day I had the chance to chat with Yaakov Stern, lead­ing Cog­ni­tive Reserve researcher at Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty, and then with a group of 25 life­long learn­ers in Ari­zona who attend­ed a brain fit­ness class (hel­lo, Robert and friends!) based on our con­sumer guide The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness. On reflec­tion, I found both conversations…

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To Manage Brain Fitness Through Life, We Need to Put Puzzle Pieces Together

By Alvaro Fernandez | June 21, 2010

The main val­ue of the inde­pen­dent NIH pan­el men­tioned in the pre­vi­ous arti­cle comes from the rec­om­men­da­tions it makes for research, indus­try and gov­ern­ment to fill the gaps in the sci­en­tif­ic evi­dence in years to come. … In fact, hav­ing access to objec­tive, auto­mat­ed assess­ments to help con­sumers bet­ter mon­i­tor their cog­ni­tive health and take proactive,…

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United BioSource Corporation Announces Acquisition of Cognitive Drug Research (computerized cognitive testing)

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 14, 2009

Press release: “Leader in cog­ni­tion mea­sure­ment inte­grates into UBC to max­i­mize mea­sure­ment pre­ci­sion of piv­otal end­points and ensure data integri­ty. Unit­ed BioSource Cor­po­ra­tion (UBC) today announced the acqui­si­tion of CDR” Press release (09/10/09): Here Analy­sis for mem­bers of Sharp­Brains Net­work for Brain Fit­ness Inno­va­tion: Here For con­text, see our pre­vi­ous arti­cle titled Com­put­er­ized Cog­ni­tive Assess­ments: opportunities…

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Preparing Society for the Cognitive Age (Frontiers in Neuroscience article)

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 7, 2009 |

(Edi­tor’s note: this arti­cle belongs to the excel­lent May 2009 spe­cial issue on Aug­ment­ing Cog­ni­tion at sci­en­tif­ic jour­nal Fron­tiers in Neu­ro­science. The arti­cle, an indus­try overview, is repro­duced here with autho­riza­tion by the Fron­tiers Research Foun­da­tion) Prepar­ing Soci­ety for the Cog­ni­tive Age By Alvaro Fer­nan­dez Ground­break­ing cog­ni­tive neu­ro­science research has occurred over the last 20 years — without…

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Why computerized neuropsychological tests will become routine — chemo brain example

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 4, 2009

Good arti­cle today in the NYT on “chemo brain” — some typ­i­cal short-term and long-term cog­ni­tive con­se­quences of chemother­a­py. The Fog That Fol­lows Chemother­a­py (New York Times) This quote is crit­i­cal — for chemo brain and also for a vari­ety of clin­i­cal con­di­tions that present asso­ci­at­ed cog­ni­tive impair­ments: “Con­trol­ling for brain func­tion before can­cer treat­ment begins…

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Update: Is Grey the New Gold?

By Alvaro Fernandez | June 2, 2009

Here you have the June edi­tion of our month­ly newslet­ter cov­er­ing cog­ni­tive health and brain fit­ness top­ics. Please remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive this Newslet­ter by email, using the box at the top of this page. The full sched­ule of the Sharp­Brains’ pow­ered Cog­ni­tive Health Track at the Games for Health Con­fer­ence, June 11–12th…

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