Coder, entrepreneur and teenager Emma Yang launches $50k Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign for app to help improve Alzheimer’s patients’ daily lives

By SharpBrains | January 24, 2018

___ A 14-Year-Old Made An App To Help Alzheimer’s Patients Rec­og­nize Their Loved Ones (Fast Com­pa­ny): “When Emma Yang was 7 or 8 years old, her grand­moth­er became increas­ing­ly for­get­ful. Over the next few years, those mem­o­ry prob­lems, caused by ear­ly Alzheimer’s dis­ease, wors­ened. Yang, who learned to code at an ear­ly age, decid­ed to…

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Train your brain to remember her name: Key patent for cognitive training system using face-name associations

By SharpBrains | May 8, 2017
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Today we are shar­ing a 2012 patent by Posit Sci­ence aimed at enhanc­ing cog­ni­tive abil­i­ty using face-name asso­ci­a­tions. U.S. Patent No. 8,197,258: Cog­ni­tive train­ing using face-name asso­ci­a­tions Assignee(s): Posit Sci­ence Cor­po­ra­tion Inventor(s): Peter B. Delahunt, Joseph L. Hardy, Hen­ry W. Mah­ncke, Shru­ti Gan­gad­har Tech­nol­o­gy Cat­e­go­ry: Neu­roCog­ni­tive Train­ing Issue Date: June 12, 2012 Sharp­Brains’ Take: The facial…

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