The Benefits of a One-Time Cognitive Training Program Do Last but Wane Over Time

By Dr. Pascale Michelon | March 15, 2011 |

Do you remem­ber the IMPACT study pub­lished in 2009? It was a ran­dom­ized clin­i­cal tri­al with healthy old­er adults that com­pared a com­put­er-based cog­ni­tive pro­gram that trains audi­tory pro­cess­ing (Brain Fit­ness Pro­gram, Posit Sci­ence) with edu­ca­tion­al video pro­grams (con­trol group). Peo­ple who used the pro­gram improved in the trained tasks, which was not that surprising,…

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Invitation to SharpBrains Summit — Technology for Cognitive Health and Performance

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 10, 2009

We are excit­ed to invite you to the first vir­tu­al, glob­al Sharp­Brains Sum­mit (Jan­u­ary 18–20th, 2010). The Sharp­Brains Sum­mit will fea­ture a dream team of over 25 speak­ers who are lead­ers in indus­try and research from 7 coun­tries, to dis­cuss emerg­ing research, tools and best prac­tices for cog­ni­tive health and per­for­mance. This inau­gur­al event will…

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Save the Date: SharpBrains Summit, Technology for Cognitive Health and Performance

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 19, 2009 |

Sharp­Brains Sum­mit: a vir­tu­al con­fer­ence to take place Jan­u­ary 18–20th, 2010. Over 25 lead­ing speak­ers and a pro­fes­sion­al audi­ence will dis­cuss emerg­ing inno­va­tion and tech­nol­o­gy for life­long cog­ni­tive health and per­for­mance. The Sum­mit will high­light the con­ver­gence of neu­rocog­ni­tive research, non-inva­sive tech­nol­o­gy and health­care, dis­cuss emerg­ing best prac­tices, and help pre­dict how a grow­ing range of tools may pro­vide solu­tions to cog­ni­tive health and per­for­mance-relat­ed issues.

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Brain Fitness Newsletter: December Edition

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 30, 2007 |

I hope you are hav­ing a joy­ful hol­i­day sea­son, and wish you a Hap­py and Pros­per­ous 2008. The Brain Fit­ness field has made a great deal of progress in 2007, and we are look­ing for­ward the New Year.  Here you are have the Month­ly Digest of our Most Pop­u­lar Blog Posts. You can con­sid­er it your…

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Brain Training: No Magic Bullet, Yet Useful Tool. Interview with Elizabeth Zelinski

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 18, 2007 |

Sharon Beg­ley, Newsweek’s sci­ence reporter, recent­ly wrote that — “With the nation’s 78 mil­lion baby boomers approach­ing the age of those dread­ed ‘“where did I leave my keys?” moments, it’s no won­der the mar­ket for com­put­er-based brain train­ing has shot up from essen­tial­ly zero in 2005 to $80 mil­lion this year, accord­ing to the consulting…

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