Posts Tagged ‘cognitive-exercise’
Update: The Future of Preventive Brain Medicine
Time for SharpBrains’ January 2012 eNewsletter, featuring in this occasion multiple thought-provoking perspectives on how emerging neuroscience can and should make us rethink prevailing practices in education, healthy aging and preventive medicine. Featured Perspectives: The Future of Preventive Brain Medicine: Breaking Down the Cognition & Alzheimer’s Disease Alphabet Soup, by Dr. Dharma Singh Khalsa When 1 +…
Read MoreChange Your Environment, Change Yourself
(Editor’s note: one of the most common enemies of getting quality cognitive exercise is being on “mental autopilot”. I recently came across an excellent new book, titled The Daily Trading Coach: 101 Lessons for Becoming Your Own Trading Psychologist, by trading performance expert Dr. Brett Steenbarger, which explicitly calls for addressing the “mental autopilot” problem…
Read MoreCentre for Brain Fitness at Baycrest: Interview with Dr. William Reichman
In April 2008, Baycrest, a leading research institute focused on aging and brain function, received $10-million from the Ontario Government to create a groundbreaking Centre for Brain Fitness. Its stated goal was to “develop and commercialize a range of products designed to improve the brain health of aging Ontarians and others around the world”. “Our government…
Read MoreBrain Fitness Newsletter: Premium Research Sponsors
Here you have the twice-a-month newsletter with our most popular blog posts. Please remember that you can subscribe to receive this Newsletter by email, simply by submitting your email at the top of this page. Have you ever wondered how we can maintain SharpBrains’ website, blog and newsletter without selling any products and with only limited…
Read MoreBrain Fitness Programs For Seniors Housing, Healthcare and Insurance Providers: Evaluation Checklist
During the research phase before the publication of the special report Brain Fitness Centers in Seniors Housing — A Field in the Making, published by the American Seniors Housing Association (ASHA), we realized that there were equal amounts of interest and confusion among executives and professionals thinking about adding computer-based cognitive exercise products to their…
Read MoreCan you use mental self rotation to read a map?
What is mental self rotation? It is the ability to imagine yourself in different locations in space and imagine your body moving in space. This is an ability that is used in different everyday activities such as navigating in an environment or reading a map. Ability involved: egocentric spatial transformations (yes, that is the scientific expression)…
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