More on Neurofeedback’s Brain Training Value

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 24, 2008 |

(Note: neu­ro­feed­back is a form of biofeed­back that mea­sures brain waves and that, accord­ing to prac­ti­tion­ers, pro­vides good “brain train­ing” for spe­cif­ic clin­i­cal con­di­tions). A few weeks ago Dr. David Rabin­er wrote a great post on How Strong is the Research Sup­port for Neu­ro­feed­back in Atten­tion Deficits?, con­clud­ing that — “It is for these rea­sons that…

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Working Memory Training from a pediatrician perspective, focused on attention deficits

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 10, 2007 |

Today we inter­view Dr. Arthur Lavin, Asso­ciate Clin­i­cal Pro­fes­sor of Pedi­atrics at Case West­ern School of Med­i­cine, pedi­a­tri­cian in pri­vate prac­tice, and one of the first providers of Cogmed Work­ing Mem­o­ry Train­ing in the US (the pro­gram whose research we dis­cussed with Dr. Torkel Kling­berg and Dr. Bradley Gib­son). Dr. Lavin has a long standing…

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Brain Fitness Program: evaluation checklist

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 16, 2007 |

Please check out our press release today: Sharp­Brains Announces Ten-Point Brain Fit­ness Check­list. We hope this infor­ma­tion is use­ful as you eval­u­ate all the pro­grams that are appear­ing.  “Lead­ing Source of Brain Exer­cise Infor­ma­tion Estab­lish­es 10 Must-Ask Ques­tions for Con­sumers Choos­ing Brain Fit­ness Soft­ware Pro­grams” “SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The influx of brain exer­cise pro­grams dur­ing the…

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