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Grand Rounds: Best of Health and Medical Blogging
Welcome to a new edition of Grand Rounds blog carnival, the weekly edition of what’s best in the health and medical blogosphere. This week, twenty four bloggers share data, insights, questions, reflections and more. Enjoy!
Read MoreAAA to deploy Brain Fitness Software DriveSharp to Assess and Train Older Driver’s Brains
The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety just started to recommend a new driver safety program called DriveSharp (see AAA and Posit Release Program to Improve Drivers’ Minds), developed by Posit Science. DriveSharp is a computerized cognitive assessment and training tool based on Karlene Ball’s research on older adults’ cognitive fitness and driving. In the press…
Read MoreFirst Book Review is in…Two Stethoscopes Up!
The San Francisco Chronicle brings two great pieces today — including an excellent review of our new Book! Is Your Brain A Couch Potato? (online book review) “At 165 pages, we’re talking a short, sweet, entertaining read of a complex topic, with timely (written in 1/09) reviews of 21 top technology products, as well as…
Read MoreBrain Fitness/ Training Report Finds Market Growth, Potential, and Confusion
After many many months of mental stimulation, physical exercise and the certain need for stress management… we have just announced the release of the The State of the Brain Fitness Software Market 2009 report, our second annual comprehensive market analysis of the US market for computerized cognitive assessment and training tools. In this report we…
Read MoreBrain Games and Training for Baby Boomers: News Round-Up
Round-up of recent news with a variety of angles, from the effects of gaming to cognitive training for driving skills and brain fitness classes. Seniors use brain training software to sharpen their minds (Dallas Morning News) — “Allstate Insurance has invited some policyholders and other older drivers to try InSight so researchers can evaluate whether the…
Read MoreResearch on Older Driver’s Safety
Good article in the New York Times today: An Epidemic of Crashes Among the Aging? Unlikely, Study Says — “The (Insurance Institute for Highway Driving) insurance institute is conducting further research to determine why the risks appear to be going down for older drivers. It may be that today’s older drivers are simply in better physical and…
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