CES 2013: Combining brains and digital health in the workplace

By SharpBrains | January 8, 2013

The Brain: On the Front­line of Dig­i­tal Health in the Work­place (Huff­in­g­ton Post): “…It is esti­mat­ed that some two bil­lion world­wide, one-third of the glob­al pop­u­la­tion, suf­fer from brain-based health and pro­duc­tiv­i­ty chal­lenges with a relat­ed cost bur­den of more than $2 tril­lion. The broad scope of this mar­ket is empha­sized fur­ther when con­sid­er­a­tion is giv­en to

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When Employees Self-monitor and Self-enhance, what does HR do?

By SharpBrains | April 3, 2012

Employ­ees, Mea­sure Your­selves (Wall Street Jour­nal): — “For exam­ple, there’s Lumos­i­ty, from Lumos Labs Inc., an online sys­tem that serves up games employ­ees can play dur­ing down­time at work. … The dif­fer­ence is track­ing. The games offer a score­card of your per­for­mance and let

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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 Enhancement and Exercise, by Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 8, 2007 |

Dr. Gin­ger Camp­bell just pub­lished a nice pod­cast inter­view with our co-founder and chief sci­en­tif­ic advi­sor Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg, whom we also inter­viewed some months ago on brain improve­ment research and ideas. The first half of the 30-minute inter­view is a bit tech­ni­cal, includ­ing a nice intro­duc­tion to the field of neu­ropsy­chol­o­gy as the convergence…

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