Study: Harnessing a virtual reality brain training game to diagnose mild cognitive impairment (MCI)

By SharpBrains | January 15, 2015

. Vir­tu­al real­i­ty brain train­ing game can detect mild cog­ni­tive impair­ment, a con­di­tion that often pre­dates Alzheimer’s dis­ease (press release): “Geek researchers demon­strat­ed the poten­tial of a vir­tu­al super­mar­ket cog­ni­tive train­ing game as a screen­ing tool for patients with mild cog­ni­tive impair­ment (MCI) among a sam­ple of old­er adults… In an arti­cle pub­lished in the…

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Study: Internet-based screening can help detect aging-related cognitive deficits

By SharpBrains | December 3, 2014

— We just came across a new and fas­ci­nat­ing sci­en­tific paper, titled Devel­op­ment and eval­u­a­tion of a self-admin­is­tered on-line test of mem­o­ry and atten­tion for mid­­dle-aged and old­er adults, and pub­lished at Fron­tiers in Aging Neu­ro­science. Here is the very read­able abstract: “There is a need for rapid and reli­able Inter­net-based screen­ing tools for cog­ni­tive assess­ment in mid­­dle-aged and old­er adults.…

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Does Brain Training Work? Depends. Better Question is, How, When, for Whom Can Brain Training Work?

By Alvaro Fernandez | June 29, 2012

You may have read a new wave of arti­cles claim­ing that “brain train­ing does­n’t work”, based on the recent research meta-ana­­lyt­ic review Is Work­ing Mem­o­ry Train­ing Effec­tive? (Devel­op­men­tal Psy­chol­o­gy, May 2012), whose abstract says: “It has been sug­gest­ed that work­ing mem­o­ry train­ing pro­grams are effec­tive both as treat­ments for atten­­tion-deficit/hy­per­ac­­tiv­i­­ty dis­or­der (ADHD) and oth­er cog­ni­tive dis­or­ders in…

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Study: Cognitive Training in Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI)

By SharpBrains | January 9, 2012 |

We just came across a new sci­en­tif­ic study on the val­ue and lim­i­ta­tions of cog­ni­tive train­ing in Mild Cog­ni­tive Impair­ment (MCI), based on a pro­gram of cog­ni­tive exer­cis­es pro­vid­ed by Lumos Labs (devel­op­ers of lumosity.com). Study: Com­put­erised Cog­ni­tive Train­ing for Old­er Per­sons With Mild Cog­ni­tive Impair­ment: A Pilot Study Using a Ran­domised Con­trolled Tri­al Design (Brain Impairment):

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Brain Failure and Brain Fitness: A Farewell to Dementia?

By Dr. Joshua Steinerman | August 13, 2008 |

A dread­ed diag­no­sis, that dimmed and doom­ing dilem­ma. Feared, some­times fought, too often for­got­ten. It is the grayest, ghastli­est ele­phant in the room: demen­tia. What is demen­tia? I, like many oth­ers who ded­i­cate their pro­fes­sion­al efforts to its study and treat­ment, have no good answer. I believe we are lost in our lex­i­con, try­ing to…

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