By: Alvaro Fernandez
Today
we share must-read insights from Katherine Sullivan, Director of the Brain Fitness Center at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and Peter Kissinger, President of the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. Both of them will discuss their ongoing work and lessons learned at the upcoming 2011 SharpBrains Summit (March 30th — April 1st, 2011). The interviews below were conducted via email.
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Katherine Sullivan is the Director of the Brain Fitness Center at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
1. Katherine, how would you define “brain fitness” vs. “physical fitness”?
In our context (helping active duty service members and veterans recover from cognitive dysfunction most associated with traumatic brain injury), I’d say brain fitness is the outcome we work towards: the cognitive resources required to return to duty or reintegrate into daily and professional lives as much as possible. In this sense, Read the rest of this entry »
By: Alvaro Fernandez
Every Monday
during the next 10 weeks we’ll discuss here what leading industry, science and policy experts –all of whom will speak at the upcoming 2011 SharpBrains Summit (March 30th — April 1st, 2011)– have to say about emerging opportunities and challenges to address, over the next 10 years, the growing brain-related societal demands.
Without further ado, here you have what four Summit Speakers say…
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Alvaro Pascual-Leone is the Director of the Berenson-Allen Center for Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation at Harvard Medical School.
1. How would you define “brain fitness” vs. “physical fitness”?
Physical fitness can refer to an overall or general state of health and well-being. However, it is also often used more specifically to refer to the ability to perform a given activity, occupation, or sport.
Similarly brain fitness might be used to refer to a general state of healthy, optimized brain function, or a more specific brain-based ability to process certain, specific information, enable certain motor actions, or support certain cognitive abilities. Importantly though, I would argue Read the rest of this entry »