AARP’s Best Brain Fitness Books

By SharpBrains | September 20, 2011 |

We are hon­ored to announce that AARP has includ­ed our very own book The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness (182 pages; $14.95) in its new List of Best Books on Brain Fit­ness, which will be unveiled dur­ing AARP’s upcom­ing Life@50 Nation­al Event. We hope this list will help many more indi­vid­u­als and insti­tu­tions learn about…

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Wanted: Your Feedback on The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness

By SharpBrains | October 21, 2010

If you have already read The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness: 18 Inter­views with Sci­en­tists, Prac­ti­cal Advice, and Prod­uct Reviews, to Keep your Brain Sharp, by Alvaro Fer­nan­dez and Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg, please take a few min­utes to answer six ques­tions folow­ing link below. Your feed­back will ensure that future book edi­tions are even more…

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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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Cognitive Enhancement via Pharmacology AND Neuropsychology, in The New Executive Brain

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 30, 2009

(Edi­tor’s Note: giv­en the grow­ing media atten­tion to three appar­ent­ly sep­a­rate worlds ‑cog­ni­tive enhance­ment via drugs, brain fit­ness train­ing soft­ware, com­put­er­ized neu­rocog­ni­tive assessments‑, I found it refresh­ing to see our co-founder Elkhonon Gold­berg intro­duce the top­ic of cog­notrop­ic drugs with an inte­gra­tive per­spec­tive in the much updat­ed new edi­tion of his clas­sic book, now titled…

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