Training Attention and Memory after Bypass Surgery

By SharpBrains | September 18, 2012

“Brain Train­ing” May Lessen Cog­ni­tive Impair­ments Asso­ci­at­ed with Coro­nary Bypass Surgery (press release): “This study demon­strat­ed that patients suf­fer­ing from cog­ni­tive deficits after coro­nary bypass surgery could great­ly ben­e­fit from cog­ni­tive train­ing that tar­gets both atten­tion and memory—the cog­ni­tive func­tions most affect­ed after this type of operation…What’s more, ben­e­fits from the train­ing are main­tained over time…the…

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Gaming and Neuroscience: Opportunities and Challenges

By Aki Nikolaidis | October 4, 2011

A cou­ple weeks ago I attend­ed the Enter­tain­ment Soft­ware and Cog­ni­tive Neu­rother­a­peu­tics Con­fer­ence, ESCoNS, at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia San Fran­cis­co. The speak­ers’ talks were insight­ful, sur­pris­ing, and inspir­ing in many regards. The pur­pose of this meet­ing was to bring togeth­er great minds in a vari­ety of fields from neu­ro­science to game design and to…

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Save the Date: SharpBrains Summit, Technology for Cognitive Health and Performance

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 19, 2009 |

Sharp­Brains Sum­mit: a vir­tu­al con­fer­ence to take place Jan­u­ary 18–20th, 2010. Over 25 lead­ing speak­ers and a pro­fes­sion­al audi­ence will dis­cuss emerg­ing inno­va­tion and tech­nol­o­gy for life­long cog­ni­tive health and per­for­mance. The Sum­mit will high­light the con­ver­gence of neu­rocog­ni­tive research, non-inva­sive tech­nol­o­gy and health­care, dis­cuss emerg­ing best prac­tices, and help pre­dict how a grow­ing range of tools may pro­vide solu­tions to cog­ni­tive health and per­for­mance-relat­ed issues.

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Brain fitness & training heads towards its tipping point

By Dr. Gerard Finnemore | January 19, 2009 |

How do you know when some­thing is fast mov­ing towards a Glad­wellian tip­ping point? When health insur­ance com­pa­nies and pub­lic pol­i­cy mak­ers launch sig­nif­i­cant ini­tia­tives. For exam­ple, the gov­ern­ment of Ontario recent­ly announced a $10 mil­lion invest­ment with Bay­crest Research Cen­tre who will part­ner with MaRS Ven­ture Group to devel­op and com­mer­cialise brain fit­ness technologies.…

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Co-Adaptive Learning: Adaptive Technology for the Aging

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 10, 2009 |

My apolo­gies for not hav­ing blogged in a few days. I land­ed back in San Fran­cis­co today after speak­ing and par­tic­i­pat­ing in a very stim­u­lat­ing event put togeth­er by the Ari­zona State Uni­ver­si­ty’s Adap­tive Neur­al Sys­tems Cen­ter with fund­ing from the Nation­al Sci­ence Foun­da­tion. The 2‑day sym­po­sium was titled Co-Adap­­tive Learn­ing: Adap­tive Tech­nol­o­gy for the…

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