Top 14 Brain Fitness News in 2014: Research, Assessments and Training

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 18, 2014

Unless you live in a cave, you are well aware of all the grow­ing inter­est in–and con­tro­ver­sies around–the top­ics of brain fit­ness and brain train­ing. A lit­tle per­spec­tive may help sep­a­rate the sig­nal from the noise. Take a minute to think about the ear­ly years of the phys­i­cal fit­ness move­ment. It took decades of con­flict­ing research and confusing…

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Scaling up meditation and mindfulness via wellness programs and biofeedback sensors

By SharpBrains | November 25, 2014

Scal­ing up med­i­ta­tion and mind­ful­ness via well­ness pro­grams and biofeed­back sen­sors from Sharp­Brains Enjoy this great ses­sion held at the 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit, fea­tur­ing: Dr. Dou­glass Ziedo­nis, Pro­fes­sor and Chair of the Depart­ment of Psy­chi­a­try at UMass Med­ical School Dr. Dhar­ma Singh Khal­sa, Pres­i­dent of the Alzheimer’s Research and Pre­ven­tion Foun­da­tion Ariel Garten, CEO of…

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The next in wearables: Harnessing EEG for “the masses” to track and enhance mind fitness

By SharpBrains | September 18, 2014

— Is mind­ful­ness and less stress worth $299? The Muse makes a case (review) (Ven­ture Beat): “The most inter­est­ing wear­able I’ve used yet isn’t a fit­ness track­er or a super­flu­ous smart­watch. It’s a con­nect­ed head­band that helps you focus your thoughts… To put it sim­ply, the Muse brings elec­troen­cephalog­ra­phy (EEG) tech­nol­o­gy, which detects brain activ­i­ty, to…

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Scaling up meditation, mindfulness practices via biofeedback systems and wellness programs

By SharpBrains | September 9, 2014

— That will be the focus of the third ses­sion at the 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Octo­ber 28–30th, 2014). We hope you can join us! Scal­ing up med­i­ta­tion and mind­ful­ness prac­tices via biofeed­back sys­tems and well­ness pro­grams Dr. Dou­glass Ziedo­nis, Pro­fes­sor and Chair of the Depart­ment of Psy­chi­a­try at UMass Med­ical School Ariel Garten, CEO of InteraXon…

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Update: Why brain training needs to be better targeted, and more widely available

By SharpBrains | August 29, 2014

— Time for Sharp­Brains’ August 2014 e‑newsletter, fea­tur­ing a wealth of insights, sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy reports…and this brain teas­er to exer­cise your men­tal rota­tion abil­i­ties. Enjoy! New trends: How to incor­po­rate mind­ful­ness into psy­chother­a­py Chal­leng­ing the out­dat­ed “fixed brain” dog­ma, the cog­ni­tive train­ing mar­ket keeps grow­ing Increased aware­ness and use of cog­ni­tive assess­ments seen as demen­­tia-relat­ed pri­or­i­ties by…

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