Cognitive Fitness for Financial Decision-Making

Issues with aging can be cost­ly for retirees’ mon­ey (Asso­ci­at­ed Press). Quotes: — “With age comes wis­dom about mon­ey — up to a point.” — “Years of han­dling your own finances and invest­ments sharp­en the abil­i­ty to make sound deci­sions. But fail­ing to pre­pare for the day when 

Read More

Alzheimer’s Early and Accurate Diagnosis: Normal Aging vs. Alzheimer’s Disease

(Edi­tor’s Note: I recent­ly came across an excel­lent book and resource, The Alzheimer’s Action Plan: The Experts’ Guide to the Best Diag­no­sis and Treat­ment for Mem­o­ry Prob­lems, just released in paper­back. Dr. Murali Doraiswamy, one of the authors and lead­ing Alzheimer’s expert, kind­ly helped us cre­ate a 2‑part arti­cle series to share with Sharp­Brains readers…

Read More

Brain/ Cognitive Enhancement with drugs… and cereal?

Sev­er­al recent arti­cles and news: Brain Gain: the under­ground world of “neu­roen­hanc­ing” drugs (The New York­er) — “Alex remains enthu­si­as­tic about Adder­all, but he also has a slight­ly jaun­diced cri­tique of it. “It only works as a cog­ni­tive enhancer inso­far as you are ded­i­cat­ed to accom­plish­ing the task at hand,” he said. “The num­ber of times…

Read More