Growing awareness of the opportunities and risks posed by pharmacological cognitive enhancement (aka “smart drugs”)

By SharpBrains | April 3, 2015

. More research need­ed on use of ‘smart drugs’ by healthy peo­ple (Med­ical News): “Drugs such as methylphenidate and modafinil, mar­ket­ed as Rital­in and Provig­il respec­tive­ly, are used by some healthy indi­vid­u­als in order to boost their cog­ni­tive per­for­mance, despite a gen­er­al lack of knowl­edge about 

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Study: For healthy older adults, social brain training offers the most clear benefits

By SharpBrains | November 26, 2014

— If Home Brain Train­ing Apps Don’t Work, What Does? (Health­line): “In a study pub­lished online Nov. 18 in PLOS Med­i­cine, Aus­tralian researchers reviewed 52 pre­vi­ous stud­ies that looked at the ben­e­fits of com­put­er­ized brain train­ing soft­ware for 4,885 healthy seniors. While brain train­ing pro­grams like Lumos­i­ty, Cogmed, and Posit Sci­ence promise to help you…

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Growing evidence that vitamin, folic acid supplements do not improve cognitive performance or prevent Alzheimer’s Disease

By SharpBrains | November 19, 2014

— Demen­tia study ques­tions advice on tak­ing sup­ple­ments (BBC News): “Tak­ing vit­a­min B12 and folic acid sup­ple­ments does not seem to cut the risk of devel­op­ing demen­tia in healthy peo­ple, say Dutch researchers. In one of the largest stud­ies to date, there was no dif­fer­ence in mem­o­ry test scores between those who had tak­en the supplements…

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Brain Performance Dashboards @ 2014 SharpBrains Virtual Summit

By SharpBrains | October 30, 2014

After two very intense Sum­mit days, today we have Expo Day, look­ing at the lat­est solu­tions and ini­tia­tives by Sum­mit Spon­sors — includ­ing the cog­ni­tive per­for­mance dash­board below, by Peak. Many peo­ple work­ing on ways to engage, edu­cate, empow­er and bet­ter equip every­one with a brain!

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Itamar Lesuisse at Peak: Let’s integrate brain training with the quantified self

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 22, 2014

What is your cur­rent job title and orga­ni­za­tion, and what excites you the most about work­ing there? I am the CEO at Peak, a mobile brain-train­ing app that helps users to enjoy becom­ing bet­ter every day. My cofounders and I want­ed to start a com­pa­ny where tech­nol­o­gy, sci­ence, edu­ca­tion and gam­ing blend togeth­er to cre­ate a…

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