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Under new CEO, Lumosity to expand brain training platform with focus on applied skills and broader social, wellness factors

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lumosityLumosity’s Stum­ble Reveals How We Think About Think­ing (Buz­zFeed News):

“The ads were per­va­sive, pop­ping up on CNN, Fox News, NPR, and Google search­es. And they were per­sua­sive: Play­ing Lumos­i­ty games would do your brain good…But these claims sound­ed a lit­tle too rosy to the Fed­er­al Trade Com­mis­sion, which [Read more…] about Under new CEO, Lumos­i­ty to expand brain train­ing plat­form with focus on applied skills and broad­er social, well­ness factors

Marbles: The Brain Store secures $10MM credit to open new “brain fitness” stores

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Marbles_storesSiena Lend­ing Clos­es $10MM Facil­i­ty for Mar­bles: The Brain Store (ABL Advisor):

“Siena Lend­ing Group LLC announces the com­ple­tion of a three-year $10 mil­lion cred­it facil­i­ty for Mar­bles: The Brain Store (“Mar­bles”) to refi­nance their exist­ing senior debt and to sup­port their store growth require­ments. [Read more…] about Mar­bles: The Brain Store secures $10MM cred­it to open new “brain fit­ness” stores

Top 10 Brain Teaser Games of 2015 For Teens and Adults

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brain teasers cognitive stimulationThese are the 10 brain teasers, games & illu­sions that Sharp­Brains read­ers (pri­mar­i­ly adults, but some younger minds too) enjoyed the most in 2015. It is always good to learn more about our brains and to chal­lenge them!

#1. You think you know the col­ors? Try the Stroop Test

#2. Check out this brief atten­tion experiment

#3. Test your stress level

#4. Guess: Are there more con­nec­tions in one human brain or leaves in the whole Amazon?

#5. Quick brain teasers to flex two key men­tal muscles

#6. Count the Fs in this sentence

#7. Can you iden­tify Apple’s logo?

#8. Ten clas­sic opti­cal illu­sions to trick your mind

#9. What do you see?

#10. Fun Men­tal Rota­tion challenge

If you have time for more, check out these Top 25 Brain Teasers, Games and Illu­sions.

We hope you try them, enjoy them, and share them 🙂

Alvaro Fer­nan­dez & the Sharp­Brains Team

10 Brain Transformers: A Poem

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As we enter an era of a trans­form­ing cerebrals

there will soon be “Mind­ful” wearables

to con­cen­trate, med­i­tate and self regulate

Did I just see you drop your jaw­bone at the gate?

Charge your­self to a calm­ing or ener­giz­ing state

Enhance mem­o­ry and you are now feel­ing great

Your life may soon be in a dif­fer­ent motion

With Elec­tri­cal and mag­netic brain stimulation

Not just in games or [Read more…] about 10 Brain Trans­form­ers: A Poem

Update: From Drugs and Helmets to Digital Brain Health toolkits

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10 Predictions clip

Time for a new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains’ e‑newsletter. This time we focus on how much the brain health and behav­ioral health fields are chang­ing, as they upgrade tra­di­tion­al toolk­its with dig­i­tal plat­forms to bet­ter mon­i­tor, assess and enhance cog­ni­tion. Often dri­ven by a grow­ing con­sumer demand for improved brain fit­ness, as you can see in this 3‑minute clip (opens YouTube video).

We are proud to report that our lat­est mar­ket report is prov­ing to be valu­able to a range of exec­u­tives and inno­va­tors work­ing along those lines, as you can read here.

New Sci­ence

New Tools

New think­ing

Have a great month of April!

Neuroscientists: Develop digital games to improve brain function and well-being

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interactivemediaAuthors: Devel­op dig­i­tal games to improve brain func­tion and well-being (UW-Madi­son News):

“Neu­ro­sci­en­tists should help to devel­op com­pelling dig­i­tal games that boost brain func­tion and improve well-being, say two pro­fes­sors spe­cial­iz­ing in the field in a com­men­tary arti­cle pub­lished in the sci­ence jour­nal Nature. In the Feb. 28 issue, the two — Daphne Bave­li­er of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Rochester and Richard J. David­son of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Wis­con­sin-Madi­son — urge game design­ers and brain sci­en­tists to work togeth­er to design new games that train the brain, pro­duc­ing pos­i­tive effects on behav­ior, such as decreas­ing anx­i­ety, sharp­en­ing atten­tion and improv­ing empathy.”

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