Cognitive training research: MindFit, Lumosity, Posit Science, Cogmed

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 12, 2007 |

The field of com­put­er-based cog­ni­tive train­ing (part of what we call “Brain Fit­ness”) is start­ing to get trac­tion in the media and becom­ing an emerg­ing indus­try, and we are hap­py to see how a grow­ing num­ber of researchers and sci­ence-based com­pa­nies are lead­ing stud­ies that will allow to bet­ter mea­sure results and refine the brain exercise…

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Working Memory Training from a pediatrician perspective, focused on attention deficits

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 10, 2007 |

Today we inter­view Dr. Arthur Lavin, Asso­ciate Clin­i­cal Pro­fes­sor of Pedi­atrics at Case West­ern School of Med­i­cine, pedi­a­tri­cian in pri­vate prac­tice, and one of the first providers of Cogmed Work­ing Mem­o­ry Train­ing in the US (the pro­gram whose research we dis­cussed with Dr. Torkel Kling­berg and Dr. Bradley Gib­son). Dr. Lavin has a long standing…

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Alzheimer’s Disease: too serious to play with headlines

By Alvaro Fernandez | June 21, 2007 |

We just came across an arti­cle titled Best Com­put­er Brain Games for Senior Cit­i­zens to Delay Alzheimer’s Dis­ease. The head­line makes lit­tle sci­en­tif­ic sense-and we observe this con­fu­sion often. The arti­cle men­tions a few pro­grams we have dis­cussed often in this blog, such as Posit Sci­ence and Mind­Fit, and oth­ers we haven’t because we haven’t…

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Cogmed in the Chicago Tribune

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 22, 2007

One of the com­pa­nies pre­sent­ing at our pan­el on Brain Fit­ness at Neu­rotech Indus­try Con­fer­ence, May 17th in San Fran­cis­co, was Cogmed. They offer a work­ing mem­o­ry train­ing pro­gram focused now on kids with atten­tion deficits. What was excit­ing in the pan­el was to hear how Cogmed is help­ing kids train work­ing mem­o­ry, Posit Sci­ence is helping…

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Brain Fitness at Neurotech Industry Conference

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 12, 2007 |

Zack Lynch from Neu­roIn­sights reminds us that the early­bird reg­is­tra­tion for the Neu­rotech Indus­try Invest­ing and Busi­ness con­fer­ence is about to expire. You can reg­is­ter by April 13th to save $300. Con­fer­ence Details: Date: May 17 — 18, 2007 Loca­tion: West­in San Fran­cis­co, Mill­brae, CA High­ly rec­om­mend­ed con­fer­ence for any­one work­ing on biotech, med­ical devices, diag­nos­tics and…

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Sharpen Your Wits With This Special Offer!

By Caroline Latham | February 26, 2007

We are offer­ing a lim­it­ed-time deal for the rest of Feb­ru­ary 2007. If you buy any of the fol­low­ing brain fit­ness pro­grams: Freeze-Framer, Mind­Fit, Bas­ket­ball Intel­li­Gym, Cogmed Work­ing Mem­o­ry Train­ing, or Exer­cise your Brain DVD, you will get Brain Fit­ness 101 includ­ed for free!

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