Update: Is Grey the New Gold?

By Alvaro Fernandez | June 2, 2009

Here you have the June edi­tion of our month­ly newslet­ter cov­er­ing cog­ni­tive health and brain fit­ness top­ics. Please remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive this Newslet­ter by email, using the box at the top of this page. The full sched­ule of the Sharp­Brains’ pow­ered Cog­ni­tive Health Track at the Games for Health Con­fer­ence, June 11–12th…

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Corporate Wellness Programs start to include Brain Health

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 30, 2009

Brain-fit­­ness games join work­place, as well as senior cen­ter, arse­nals (Mar­ket­Watch) — “Con­sumers and retire­ment homes have made brain-fit­­ness games and exer­cis­es a com­mer­cial hit, but now some insur­ers and employ­ers are incor­po­rat­ing them into well­ness pro­grams that pro­mote health not just for the body but also for the mind.” — “Improv­ing brain health can result…

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Wellness Coaching for Brain Health and Fitness

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 30, 2008 |

We just received this quote of how a major health sys­tem is using our Brain Fit­ness Mar­ket Report: “At Sut­ter Health Part­ners we rec­og­nize the impor­tance of brain health and how much the health of the brain and the body are inter­de­pen­dent.  The mar­ket report helped us fur­ther tar­get our coach­ing efforts to inte­grate brain…

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Brain Training Top 10 Future Trends

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 23, 2008 |

In an emerg­ing, dynam­ic, high growth mar­ket, like brain train­ing, it is dif­fi­cult to make pre­cise pro­jec­tions. But, we can observe a num­ber of trends that exec­u­tives, con­sumers, pub­lic pol­i­cy mak­ers, and the media should watch close­ly in the com­ing years, as brain fit­ness and train­ing becomes main­stream, new tools appear, and an ecosys­tem grows…

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Brain Health Business Grows With Research and Demand

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 20, 2008 |

I wrote this arti­cle for the March/ April edi­tion of the pub­li­ca­tion Aging Today, pub­lished by the Amer­i­can Soci­ety on Aging, and received per­mis­sion to repro­duce it here. —————- In recent years, most pro­fes­sion­als in aging have become aware of the grow­ing sci­en­tif­ic evi­dence show­ing that human brains retain the abil­i­ty to gen­er­ate neu­rons and change…

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TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury), PTSD, and veteran care

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 31, 2007

Final­ly. “The House took steps yes­ter­day to improve coun­sel­ing and care for the tens of thou­sands of mil­i­tary per­son­nel return­ing from Iraq and Afghanistan with brain injuries and post-trau­­mat­ic stress dis­or­der.” keep read­ing the Wash­ing­ton Post’s arti­cle House Pass­es Four Bills Aimed at Aid­ing Vet­er­ans. Our pre­vi­ous thoughts on TBI (Trau­mat­ic Brain Injury), Iraq and…

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