Posts Tagged ‘driving-skills’
Cognitive Tests Help Determine who can Drive Safely after a Stroke
The same way a brain fitness software program can help increase driving safety for older adults, simple cognitive tests may help determine whether a person can drive safely after a stroke. A recent study analyzed 30 previous studies in which the participants’ driving skills after a stroke were tested in an on-road evaluation. 1,728 individuals…
Read MoreWhy Brain Training Can Help Older Drivers
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…
Read MoreResearch on Older Driver’s Safety
Good article in the New York Times today: An Epidemic of Crashes Among the Aging? Unlikely, Study Says — “The (Insurance Institute for Highway Driving) insurance institute is conducting further research to determine why the risks appear to be going down for older drivers. It may be that today’s older drivers are simply in better physical and…
Read MoreDriveFit (CogniFit); Brain Fitness Program for Driving
Driving as Next Brain Fitness Application? Last month, at the MIT/ SmartSilvers event where we presented our Brain Fitness Market Report, we discussed what specific applications, beyond the current emphasis on healthy aging, might take computerized cognitive training to a new level.  Assessing and improving driving skills would be a top candidate, given both the well-defined…
Read MoreImproving Driving Skills and Brain Functioning- Interview with ACTIVE’s Jerri Edwards
Today we are fortunate to interview Dr. Jerri Edwards, an Associate Professor at University of South Florida’s School of Aging Studies and Co-Investigator of the influencial ACTIVE study. Dr. Edwards was trained by Dr. Karlene K. Ball, and her research is aimed toward discovering how cognitive abilities can be maintained and even enhanced with advancing age.…
Read MoreBrain Fitness/ Training Newsletter: January Edition
As we have been doing for the last 6 months, here you are have the Monthly Digest of our Most Popular Blog Posts. You can consider it your monthly Brain Fitness/ Training Newsletter. (Also, remember that you can subscribe to receive our blog RSS feed, or to our monthly newsletter at the top of this…
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