New study reinforces need for proactive cognitive monitoring after heart surgery

By SharpBrains | October 26, 2018

___ Heart surgery: Does it impact cog­ni­tive abil­i­ty? (Med­ical News Today): “Almost 8 mil­lion peo­ple in the Unit­ed States under­go car­dio­vas­cu­lar surgery or oth­er relat­ed pro­ce­dures each year. Thanks to the steady improve­ments made by med­ical sci­ence, the pro­ce­dures are becom­ing ever safer and can give peo­ple a new lease of life. Aware of improve­ments in phys­i­cal health…

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10 Predictions on How Digital Platforms will Transform Brain Health in 2013

By SharpBrains | January 14, 2013

Just a quick note: we’ll host a webi­nar on Jan­u­ary 30th to dis­cuss key mar­ket pre­dic­tions based on “The Dig­i­tal Brain Health Mar­ket 2012–2020: Web-based, mobile and bio­met­rics-based tech­nol­ogy to assess, mon­i­tor and enhance cog­ni­tion and brain func­tion­ing”, our new mar­ket report. Here are 10 pre­dic­tions, many of which will like­ly be real­ized before the…

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Cognitive screenings and Alzheimer’s Disease

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 10, 2008 |

The Alzheimer’s Foun­da­tion of Amer­i­ca just released a thought­ful report advo­cat­ing for wide­spread cog­ni­tive screen­ings after the age of 65 (55 giv­en the right con­di­tions). Accord­ing to the press release, — “The report shat­ters unsub­stan­ti­at­ed crit­i­cism and instead empha­sizes the safe­ty and cost-effec­­tive­­ness of these tools and calls on Con­gress to devel­op a nation­al dementia…

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Cognitive Assessments: HeadMinder, ANAM, and more

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 20, 2008

Just saw a very inter­est­ing press release regard­ing com­put­er-based neu­rocog­ni­tive assess­ments — a crit­i­cal part of the brain fit­ness puz­zle. How long will it take before con­sumers can have access to a reli­able and cred­i­ble annu­al “men­tal check-up”/ cog­ni­tive base­line? Head­Min­der Cog­ni­tive Sta­bil­i­ty Index: Com­put­er­ized Neu­rocog­ni­tive … (Press release) — “The Head­Min­der web-based Cog­ni­tive Stability…

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