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

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 18, 2014

Unless 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…

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

By SharpBrains | August 29, 2014

— 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…

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