Lumos Labs (maker of Lumosity) pays $2 million to settle FTC deceptive advertising charges

By SharpBrains | January 6, 2016

. Lumos­i­ty must pay $2 mil­lion after “unfound­ed” brain game claims (Fast Com­pa­ny): “The mak­er of brain game app Lumos­i­ty has agreed to pay $2 mil­lion to set­tle charges brought by the Fed­er­al Trade Com­mis­sion, which alleged it deceived con­sumers about the product’s brain-train­ing ben­e­fits. The FTC said Tues­day that Lumos­i­ty made “unfound­ed claims” that…

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Thank you, Summit Speakers, Participants and Sponsors!

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 25, 2015

What a fan­tas­tic, diverse, stim­u­lat­ing, for­ward-look­ing Sum­mit we enjoyed last week. Thank you so much, every­one, for your par­tic­i­pa­tion and con­tri­bu­tions!! Spe­cial thanks go to the orga­ni­za­tions at the lead­ing edge who sup­port­ed this unique event as Spon­sors: Gold Spon­sors The Alzheimer’s Research and Pre­ven­tion Foun­da­tion (ARPF), estab­lished in 1993, is ded­i­cat­ed to reduc­ing the inci­dence of…

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Day 3–Expo Day @ 2015 SharpBrains Virtual Summit

By SharpBrains | November 19, 2015

(If you did not reg­is­ter, you can track the pro­ceed­ings, and con­tribute too, via Twit­ter: #sharpbrains2015) Dear Sum­mit par­tic­i­pant, Amaz­ing cou­ple of days…and there’s more :-) Here are the instruc­tions to join Day 3–Expo Day today, start­ing at 8.15am US Pacif­ic Time (San Fran­cis­co, CA time)/ 11.15am East­ern Time. –> Login Instruc­tions for Reg­is­tered Sum­mit Par­tic­i­pants The Agen­da for today:

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Innovative partnerships to improve health and life at scale

By SharpBrains | November 16, 2015

Please con­sid­er join­ing us at Sharp­Brains’ upcom­ing vir­tu­al con­fer­ence (Novem­ber 17–19th), start­ing tomor­row and includ­ing this great ses­sion: Wednes­day Novem­ber 18th, 2.30 — 4.00 pm. Inno­v­a­tive part­ner­ships to improve health and life at scale. In this grow­ing and rapid­ly evolv­ing cat­e­gory, there are mul­ti­ple oppor­tu­ni­ties for devel­op­ers to part­ner with large-scale orga­ni­za­tions look­ing for ways to improve…

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Under what conditions does brain training work?

By SharpBrains | November 13, 2015

Please con­sid­er join­ing us at Sharp­Brains’ upcom­ing vir­tu­al con­fer­ence (Novem­ber 17–19th), fea­tur­ing this fan­tas­tic ses­sion: Wednes­day Novem­ber 18th, 12.30 — 1.45 pm. Under what con­di­tions does brain train­ing work? Despite ongo­ing con­tro­ver­sies, the evi­dence is clear: Some brain train­ing inter­ven­tions work, and some don’t. What explains the dif­fer­ence? What con­di­tions max­i­mize the prob­a­bil­ity of trans­fer into…

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