Ethical issues raised around deep brain stimulation (DBS) research

By SharpBrains | November 1, 2017

Researchers grap­ple with the ethics of test­ing brain implants (Sci­ence): “In 2003, neu­rol­o­gist Helen May­berg of Emory Uni­ver­si­ty in Atlanta began to test a bold, exper­i­men­tal treat­ment for peo­ple with severe depres­sion, which involved implant­i­ng met­al elec­trodes deep in the brain in a region called area 25. The ini­tial data were promis­ing; even­tu­al­ly, they convinced…

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Increased awareness and use of cognitive assessments seen as dementia-related priorities by RAND policy brief

By SharpBrains | August 25, 2014

Improv­ing Demen­tia Long-Term Care: A Pol­i­cy Blue­print (RAND Cor­po­ra­tion’s report): “In 2010, 15 per­cent of Amer­i­cans old­er than age 70 had demen­tia, and the num­ber of new demen­tia cas­es among those 65 and old­er is expect­ed to dou­ble by the year 2050. As the baby boomer gen­er­a­tion ages, many old­er adults will require demen­­tia-relat­ed long-term…

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Cognitive News November-December 2008

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 26, 2008

Here you have sev­er­al recent arti­cles and devel­op­ments wor­thy of atten­tion: 1) Boom times for brain train­ing games (CNN) 2) Nav­i­gat­ing the brain fit­ness land­scape: do’s and don’ts (McK­night’s Long Term Care News) 3) USA Hock­ey and Intel­li­gym (press release) 4) Brain Fit­ness at New York Pub­lic Library (NYPL blog) 5) McDon­nell Foun­da­tion grant har­ness­es cog­ni­tive science…

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Navigating the brain fitness landscape: do’s and don’ts

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 21, 2008

“Choos­ing the right cog­ni­tive fit­ness prod­uct or pro­gram for senior liv­ing res­i­dents is hard­er than it sounds. But under­stand­ing res­i­dents’ needs, iden­ti­fy­ing your objec­tives and con­sid­er­ing the total cost of own­er­ship will help set you on the right path.” You can con­tin­ue read­ing my first guest col­umn at McK­night’s Long Term Care News here: Nav­i­gat­ing the brain…

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Newsletter: Navigating Games for Health and Education

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 30, 2008

Here you have the twice-a-month newslet­ter with our most pop­u­lar blog posts. Please remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive this Newslet­ter by email, sim­ply by sub­mit­ting your email at the top of this page. Quick, Are videogames good or bad? That’s an impos­si­ble ques­tion. Good or bad for what? What  spe­cif­ic games are we talk­ing about?…

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Brain Training and Cognitive Health: September News

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 28, 2008 |

A round-up of inter­est­ed news dur­ing the month: 1) Train­ing Young Brains to Behave (New York Times) 2) Head Games (OpEd in New York Times) 3) Will Geron­tol­ogy rec­og­nize the Brain? (Amer­i­can Soci­ety on Aging event) 4) Brain func­tion gets a boost from walk­ing (Los Ange­les Times) 5) An idea whose time has (final­ly) come (McK­night’s Long Term Care News) 6)…

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