Exercising Our Brains: Classes in San Francisco

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 18, 2006 |

For any­one in the San Fran­cis­co Bay Area, we are offer­ing a cou­ple of lectures through the Osh­er Life­long Learn­ing Insti­tute, titled: Exer­cis­ing Our Brains: New Brain Research and Impli­ca­tions for our Lives. Descrip­tion: Neu­ro­sci­en­tists have final­ly shown that, at any age, our men­tal activ­i­ty can influ­ence the gen­er­a­tion of new neu­rons and their con­nec­tions, with clear guide­lines to…

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Cogmed Working Memory Training, RoboMemo, at the Serious Games Summit-discounted registration about to expire!

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 11, 2006

The dis­count­ed reg­is­tra­tion for the Seri­ous Games Sum­mit in DC, Octo­ber 30–31st, is about to end. If inter­est­ed, hur­ry up! I will be pre­sent­ing lessons from Cogmed’s Work­ing Mem­o­ry Train­ing Pro­gram for kids with ADD/ ADHD, devel­oped by the team at Karolin­s­ka Insti­tute, led by Dr. Torkel Kling­berg, and by Cogmed. The pro­gram is called RoboMemo,…

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Brain Fitness Programs and Neurotechnology

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 29, 2006

Sec­ond and last day of the 6th Annu­al Neu­rotech Lead­ers Forum. High­lights — Deep­er review into the chal­lenges the sec­tor (main­ly neu­rode­vices) face, such as com­plex­i­ty of reim­burse­ment process, and lack of rea­son­able agree­ment as to what “sci­en­tif­ic evi­dence” means (Medicare and Med­ic­aid require ran­dom­ized dou­ble-blind pro­to­cols, which is tough, if pos­si­ble in ensure in…

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