(Some) New Yorker articles are bogus

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 12, 2013

I love read­ing the New York­er. I have writ­ten before about bogus brain games, and about bogus brain train­ing claims. We have pub­lished a 10-ques­­tion check­list to help con­sumers make informed deci­sions. All this is to say I was sur­prised to read a recent New York­er blog arti­cle titled “Brain games are bogus.” If you…

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Update: Alzheimer’s Disease population to triple — unless we prevent or delay it

By SharpBrains | February 27, 2013

Time for Sharp­Brains’ Feb­ru­ary 2013 eNewslet­ter, fea­tur­ing this time new sci­ence and analy­sis on Alzheimer’s Dis­ease, ADHD, men­tal well-being, brain health, and more. Enjoy! New sci­ence: Alzheimer’s Dis­ease pop­u­la­tion to triple: We need smarter research, pub­lic health ini­tia­tives and lifestyles, by Pas­cale Mich­e­lon, PhD Nation­al Sci­ence Foun­da­tion report: Can inter­ac­tive media boost atten­tion and well-being? Study: Mind­ful­ness training…

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National Science Foundation report: Can interactive media boost attention and well-being?

By SharpBrains | February 20, 2013

“Behav­ioral train­ing inter­ven­tions have received much inter­est as poten­tial­ly effi­cient and cost-effec­­tive ways to main­tain brain fit­ness or enhance skilled per­for­mance with impact rang­ing from health and fit­ness to edu­ca­tion and job train­ing. In par­tic­u­lar, neu­ro­science research has doc­u­ment­ed the impor­tance of explic­it­ly train­ing (i) atten­tion­al con­trol, in order to enhance per­cep­tu­al and cog­ni­tive fitness…

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