Update: On Brain Training, Positive Psychology and the FDA

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 30, 2011

Time for the Sep­tem­ber edi­tion of the month­ly Sharp­Brains eNewslet­ter, start­ing with a good brief New Sci­en­tist arti­cle, Mak­er of cog­ni­tive train­ing game seeks FDA approval: Imag­ine walk­ing away from a doctor’s office with a pre­scrip­tion to play a video game. Brain Plas­tic­ity, the devel­oper of a cog­ni­tive train­ing game, has begun talks with the Food and…

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Study: Cognitive Markers or Biomarkers to manage Cognitive Health across the Lifespan?

By SharpBrains | September 12, 2011 |

Pre­dict­ing Alzheimer’s Dis­ease More Accu­rate Through Cog­ni­tive Changes Than Bio­mark­ers (Med­ical News): “Mea­sur­ing peo­ple’s changes in cog­ni­tive abil­i­ties is a bet­ter pre­dic­tor of Alzheimer’s dis­ease than changes in bio­mark­ers, researchers from the Ben­i­to Men­ni Com­plex Assis­ten­cial en Salut Men­tal, Barcelona, Spain, report­ed in Archives of Gen­er­al Psy­chi­a­try, a JAMA jour­nal.” “The inves­ti­ga­tors used a range of…

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