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Top 14 Brain Fitness News in 2014: Research, Assessments and Training

December 18, 2014 by Alvaro Fernandez

BrainFitnessTrajectoryUnless you live in a cave, you are well aware of all the grow­ing inter­est in–and con­tro­ver­sies around–the top­ics of brain fit­ness and brain training.

A lit­tle per­spec­tive may help sep­a­rate the sig­nal from the noise. Take a minute to think about the ear­ly years of the phys­i­cal fit­ness move­ment. It took decades of con­flict­ing research and con­fus­ing media cov­er­age to final­ly spread the idea that dai­ly life activ­i­ties are far from suf­fi­cient to keep us phys­i­cal­ly fit. And, at the same time, to [Read more…] about Top 14 Brain Fit­ness News in 2014: Research, Assess­ments and Training

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: AARP, AnthroTronix, Bay­crest, brain health assessment, Brain-Fitness, Brain-health, Brain-Plasticity, Brain-Training, fit-brains, Gaiam, Interaxon, Lifestyle Medicine, neurocognitive, neurocognitive plasticity, Reebok, Rosetta Stone, Thync, UCSF

Update: Why brain training needs to be better targeted, and more widely available

August 29, 2014 by SharpBrains

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Time for Sharp­Brains’ August 2014 e‑newsletter, fea­tur­ing a wealth of insights, sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy reports…and this brain teas­er to exer­cise your men­tal rota­tion abil­i­ties. Enjoy!

New trends:

  • How to incor­po­rate mind­ful­ness into psychotherapy
  • Chal­leng­ing the out­dat­ed “fixed brain” dog­ma, the cog­ni­tive train­ing mar­ket keeps growing
  • Increased aware­ness and use of cog­ni­tive assess­ments seen as demen­tia-relat­ed pri­or­i­ties by RAND pol­i­cy brief
  • Play­ing table ten­nis to enhance men­tal health
  • Beau­ty in and out: Brain train­ing work­shop @ Estée Lauder

New research:

  • Use of methylphenidate-based ADHD med­ica­tion increas­es the risk of heart problems
  • Why brain train­ing needs to be bet­ter tar­get­ed, and more wide­ly available
  • To treat depres­sion, we will like­ly com­bine neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty-based brain train­ing games with antidepressants
  • To pre­serve if not enhance intel­li­gence, work on speed of infor­ma­tion processing

New tech­nol­o­gy:

  • Philips and Accen­ture devel­op ALS care proof of con­cept on top of Emo­tiv brain wave headset
  • Gaiam and Reebok enter­ing men­tal fit­ness mar­ket via Inter­aX­on Muse partnerships
  • The men­tal health screen­ings of the future, as hint­ed by Ellie the vir­tu­al therapist

Final­ly, we encour­age you to check out the excel­lent Agen­da for the 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Octo­ber 28–30th, 2014). To chair the ses­sions, we now count on experts such as Dr. Michael O’Donnell, Edi­tor-In-Chief of the Amer­i­can Jour­nal of Health Pro­mo­tion, Zack Lynch, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of the Neu­rotech­nol­ogy Indus­try Orga­ni­za­tion, James Cavuo­to, Edi­tor and Pub­lisher at Neu­rotech Reports, and jour­nal­ists such as Patri­cia Marx, Staff Writer at The New York­er and Maseena Ziegler, Author and Forbes Contributor. 

Have a great month of September!

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Accenture, Brain-Fitness, Brain-Training, Cognitive-Training, Emotiv, Gaiam, Interaxon, market, Mental-Health, mindfulness, neuroplasticity, Philips, Psychotherapy, Reebok, treat depression

Gaiam and Reebok entering mental fitness market via InteraXon Muse partnerships

August 21, 2014 by SharpBrains

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Inter­aX­on Teams Up with Reebok & Gaiam To Bring Brain Fit­ness to the Mass­es (mobilesyrup):

“Many of us lead lives so hec­tic we hard­ly have time to hit the tread­mill nev­er mind take a deep breath and relax. How­ev­er, the boom­ing yoga indus­try (worth $27 bil­lion dol­lars at last count) proves that mind­ful­ness and med­i­ta­tion are an impor­tant part of a com­pre­hen­sive fit­ness regime. In an effort to [Read more…] about Gaiam and Reebok enter­ing men­tal fit­ness mar­ket via Inter­aX­on Muse partnerships

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Amazon, Brain-Fitness, brain-sensing, consumer insights, Gaiam, Interaxon, meditation, mental fitness space, mental-fitness, mindfulness, Muse, Reebok, self-improvement, yoga

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