Why Brain Training Can Help Older Drivers

By Dr. Pascale Michelon | November 10, 2010

A study just pub­lished in the Jour­nal of the Amer­i­can Geri­atric Soci­ety has been much pub­li­cized recent­ly (see for instance, this L.A. Times arti­cle). The study showed that a com­put­er-based brain train­ing pro­gram suc­ceed­ed in reduc­ing at-fault car crash­es for old­er dri­vers. The effects of the train­ing last­ed over 6 years. This result made the news…

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Update: Retooling Use It or Lose It at New York Public Library

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 8, 2009

Here you have the Sep­tem­ber 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. In the cur­rent edi­tion of The Jour­nal on Active Aging, I dis­cuss why we need to Retool “Use…

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News: DriveSharp, Cognitive Health, Posit Science and CogniFit

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 21, 2009

Round-up of recent news on cog­ni­tive health and brain fit­ness: 1) Impres­sive coup by Posit Sci­ence: Wal­ter Moss­berg reviews Dri­ve­Sharp: A Review of Dri­ve­Sharp (Wall Street Jour­nal) — “My ver­dict is that it was easy to use, and it did indeed work on my abil­i­ty to rapid­ly recall the col­or and posi­tion of mul­ti­ple moving…

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AAA to deploy Brain Fitness Software DriveSharp to Assess and Train Older Driver’s Brains

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 14, 2009

The AAA Foun­da­tion for Traf­fic Safe­ty just start­ed to rec­om­mend a new dri­ver safe­ty pro­gram called Dri­ve­Sharp (see AAA and Posit Release Pro­gram to Improve Dri­vers’ Minds), devel­oped by Posit Sci­ence. Dri­ve­Sharp is a com­put­er­ized cog­ni­tive assess­ment and train­ing tool based on Kar­lene Bal­l’s research on old­er adults’ cog­ni­tive fit­ness and dri­ving. In the press…

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