Cognitive Health News: August 2008

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 28, 2008

Here you have a roundup of inter­est­ing recent news on cog­ni­tive health top­ics and my com­men­tary: 1) Play­ing Video Games Offers Learn­ing Across Life Span, Say Stud­ies 2) Men­tal Floss at Mil­i­tary Offi­cer Mag­a­zine 3) Brain Train­ing dom­i­nates ’08 Euro sales (CVG Online) 4) Dakim’s [m]Power Adopt­ed by 150 Senior Liv­ing Com­mu­ni­ties … (Busi­ness Wire) 5)…

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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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Update: The Challenges of Gerontology

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 14, 2008

Here you have the twice-a-month newslet­ter with our most pop­u­lar blog posts. Please remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive this Newslet­ter by email, sim­ply by sub­mit­ting your email at the top of this page. First, I am pleased to report that have been invit­ed to par­tic­i­pate in a new ini­tia­tive by the World Eco­nom­ic Forum.…

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Mind Games @ Venture Capital Journal

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 6, 2008 |

The August issue of Ven­ture Cap­i­tal Jour­nal brings a very good piece on the emerg­ing brain fit­ness soft­ware  (also called “neu­rosoft­ware”) cat­e­go­ry: – Mind Games (sub­scrip­tion required) – Dakim, Lumos Labs, Posit Sci­ence and oth­er brain fit­ness star­tups are start­ing to gain mind share and cap­i­tal from ven­ture firms. The reporter and I spoke as Lumos…

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Lumos Labs (Lumosity) Brain Training Games

By Alvaro Fernandez | June 3, 2008 |

Press release: Here – “Lumos Labs, devel­op­er of Lumosity.com, the lead­ing web-based provider of sci­en­tif­i­­cal­­ly-test­ed brain train­ing games, today announced that it has raised $3 mil­lion of equi­ty financ­ing from Pequot Ven­tures, Nor­west Ven­ture Part­ners (NVP), and exist­ing investors includ­ing Michael Dear­ing. The investor group brings exper­tise that will cat­alyze the ongo­ing devel­op­ment of Lumosity.com…

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Update: Brain Fitness Seminars

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 15, 2008

Here you are have the bi-mon­th­­ly update with our 10 most Pop­u­lar blog posts. (Also, remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive our RSS feed, or to our newslet­ter, at the top of this page, if you want to receive this digest by email). We hope you have some time to share with us today. Just…

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