Bird’s Eye View of Cognitive Health Innovation

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 3, 2009

My pre­sen­ta­tion to open our Games for Health Con­fer­ence track is now avail­able via SlideShare: See Bird’s Eye View of Cog­ni­tive Health Inno­va­tion Descrip­tion: Sci­en­tif­ic, tech­no­log­i­cal and demo­graph­ic trends have con­verged to cre­ate a new $265m mar­ket in the US alone: seri­ous games, soft­ware and online appli­ca­tions that can help peo­ple of all ages assess…

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Debunking 10 Brain Training/ Cognitive Health Myths

By Alvaro Fernandez | June 20, 2009

Think about this: How can any­one take care of his or her brain when every week brings a new bar­rage of arti­cles and stud­ies which seem to con­tra­dict each oth­er? Do sup­ple­ments improve mem­o­ry? Do you need both phys­i­cal and men­tal exer­cise or is one of them enough? Which brain train­ing approach, if any, is worth…

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Cognitive Health Track at Games for Health Conference

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 22, 2009

Ben Sawyer and I just agreed to cre­ate a new Cog­ni­tive Health track ‑Pow­ered by Sharp­Brains- at the 5th Annu­al Games for Health Con­fer­ence. I will host the 11-ses­­sion track, cov­er­ing a vari­ety of cog­ni­tive health and brain fit­ness top­ics and an overview of Sharp­Brains’ upcom­ing report The State of the Brain Fit­ness Soft­ware Mar­ket 2009.…

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