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Update: Meet 10 Innovation Awards Finalists, and New Resource

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We are pleased to announce that, out of the 40 great entries sub­mit­ted, the 10 Final­ists to the 2010 Brain Fit­ness Inno­va­tion Awards mov­ing to the next round are (ordered by approx­i­mate age of end user pop­u­la­tion, from younger to older):

  • Arrow­smith School,
  • USA AlvaroFer_finalfile_180310Hock­ey,
  • Nation­wide Mutu­al Insurance,
  • Uni­ver­si­ty Behav­ioral HealthCare/ Uni­ver­si­ty of Med­i­cine & Den­tistry of New Jersey,
  • All­state,
  • AAA Foun­da­tion for Traf­fic Safety,
  • Saint Luke’s Brain and Stroke Institute,
  • Oak­land Uni­fied School District,
  • Men­tal Health Asso­ci­a­tion of Rock­land County,
  • SCAN Health Plan.

Win­ners will be announced dur­ing the State of Brain Fit­ness Inno­va­tion Webi­nar on May 24th, noon-1pm Pacif­ic Time. Reg­is­tra­tion is now open ($25), and includes exec­u­tive sum­ma­ry of Sharp­Brains’ 2010 mar­ket report and access to pri­vate LinkedIn net­work. Learn More Here.

News & Analysis

BBC “Brain Train­ing” Exper­i­ment: the Good, the Bad, the Ugly: You prob­a­bly saw the hun­dreds of media arti­cles titled “brain train­ing doesn’t work”, based on a BBC exper­i­ment. Once more, claims seem to go beyond the sci­ence back­ing them up … except that in this case it is the researchers, not the devel­op­ers, who are responsible.

Alzheimer’s Dis­ease Pre­ven­tion or Cog­ni­tive Enhance­ment: an inde­pen­dent expert pan­el just released yes­ter­day a thought­ful report on the state of the sci­ence for pre­ven­tion of Alzheimer’s Dis­ease. Before peo­ple get scared away by “there is noth­ing that works”, every­one should under­stand that this is true but dif­fer­ent from “there is noth­ing we can do to reduce the prob­a­bil­i­ty from devel­op­ing Alzheimer’s symp­toms” or “there is noth­ing we can do today to enhance our cog­ni­tive func­tions today and tomorrow”.

New Resource

We have cre­at­ed a new sec­tion in SharpBrains.com to con­tribute to the ongo­ing con­ver­sa­tion on cog­ni­tive health and brain fit­ness, based on last year’s book by Alvaro Fer­nan­dez and Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg.  Main sec­tions are: [Read more…] about Update: Meet 10 Inno­va­tion Awards Final­ists, and New Resource