Reports highlight need for cognitive health innovation given aging global population

By SharpBrains | October 13, 2016

New tech­nolo­gies can pro­tect adults from fraud: reports (McK­inght’s Senior Liv­ing): “New tech­nolo­gies can help pro­tect old­er adults from fraud, accord­ing to two reports recent­ly pub­lished by the World Eco­nom­ic Forum. Aging experts from around the world, con­vened by the WEF’s Glob­al Agen­da Coun­cil on Aging and the Vital­i­ty Group, met for the past two years and…

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How to properly “Use it or Lose it”: Kundalini Yoga vs. Crossword Puzzles

By SharpBrains | May 12, 2016 |

Yoga bet­ter than cross­words for pre­vent­ing pre-Alzheimer’s mem­o­ry loss (The Tele­graph): “His­tor­i­cal­ly and anec­do­tal­ly, yoga has been thought to be ben­e­fi­cial in age­ing well, but this is the sci­en­tif­ic demon­stra­tion of that benefit…We’re con­vert­ing his­tor­i­cal wis­dom into the high lev­el of evi­dence required for doc­tors to rec­om­mend ther­a­py to their patients.

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Does brain training work = Does it improve cognitive performance in a sustained manner?

By SharpBrains | April 15, 2016

Brain Train­ing – Can We Real­ly Enhance Our Cog­ni­tive Skills? (Brain­Blog­ger): “Under what con­di­tions does brain train­ing work?” was the ques­tion posed at one of the ses­sions of the Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit, Mon­i­tor­ing and Enhanc­ing Brain Health in the Per­va­sive Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy, an event that brought togeth­er over 30 of the world’s top experts on brain…

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