Update: New Research, Resources, and Teasers for All

By SharpBrains | November 29, 2010

Every­one these days is talk­ing about edu­ca­tion and test­ing reform, but why is rel­e­vant brain research often ignored? Which organ if not the brain does the learn­ing and teach­ing part? Renowned edu­ca­tor and brain expert Dr. Robert Syl­west­er shares his rec­om­mend­ed Top Brain Books for Edu­ca­tors and Learn­ers to help inform the con­ver­sa­tion. A must read! Save the…

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Computerized cognitive training may help reduce falls among elderly

By SharpBrains | August 12, 2010 |

Brain fit­ness pro­grams may help weak elder­ly walk faster (press release) A study led by researchers at Albert Ein­stein Col­lege of Med­i­cine of Yeshi­va Uni­ver­si­ty has found pre­lim­i­nary evi­dence that brain fit­ness pro­grams may help frail elder­ly walk faster, poten­tial­ly pre­vent­ing dis­abil­i­ty and improv­ing qual­i­ty of life. For walk­ing while talk­ing — which requires con­sid­er­ably more…

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Brain Fitness/ Training Report Finds Market Growth, Potential, and Confusion

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 4, 2009

After many many months of men­tal stim­u­la­tion, phys­i­cal exer­cise and the cer­tain need for stress man­age­ment… we have just announced the release of the The State of the Brain Fit­ness Soft­ware Mar­ket 2009 report, our sec­ond annu­al com­pre­hen­sive mar­ket analy­sis of the US mar­ket for com­put­er­ized cog­ni­tive assess­ment and train­ing tools. In this report we…

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Update: Does Cognitive Training Work?

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 28, 2009

Here you have the Feb­ru­ary edi­tion of our month­ly newslet­ter cov­er­ing cog­ni­tive health and brain fit­ness top­ics. Please remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive this Newslet­ter by email, sim­ply by sub­mit­ting your email at the top of this page. Cog­ni­tive train­ing (or struc­tured men­tal exer­cise) def­i­nite­ly seems to work — as long as we define…

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Dakim [m]Power at 150 senior living communities

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 20, 2008

Inter­est­ing mar­ket news: Dakim’s [m]Power Adopt­ed by 150 Senior Liv­ing Com­mu­ni­ties … (Busi­ness Wire) — “Dakim Inc. announced today that its [m]Pow­er® Cog­ni­tive Fit­ness Sys­tem has now been adopt­ed by more than 150 senior liv­ing com­mu­ni­ties” — “Users include Sun­rise Senior Liv­ing, Front Porch Com­mu­ni­ties, Diakon Luther­an Ser­vices, Ecu­men, Eska­ton, Bench­mark Assist­ed Liv­ing, and Los Ange­les Jewish…

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Can Intelligence Be Trained? Martin Buschkuehl shows how

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 13, 2008 |

Today I had a great con­ver­sa­tion with Mar­tin Buschkuehl, one of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan Cog­ni­tive Neu­roimag­ing Lab researchers  involved in the cog­ni­tive train­ing study that has received much media atten­tion (New York Times, Wired, Sci­ence News…) since late April, when the study was pub­lished at the Pro­ceed­ings of the Nation­al Acad­e­my of Sci­ences. Reference:…

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