Lumos Labs ranked #13 Holder of Pervasive Neurotech Intellectual Property*

By SharpBrains | June 25, 2015

Lumos Labs pro­duces the pop­u­lar brain train­ing web and mobile app named Lumos­i­ty. With 60 mil­lion reg­is­tered users, Lumos­i­ty is the world’s largest cog­ni­tive train­ing ser­vice. To date, Lumos Labs has raised over $70M in fund­ing, and the com­pa­ny sig­nif­i­cant­ly expand­ed its IP port­fo­lio in 2014 through 

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Brain health research study by AARP: Consumers pursue brain training to support a more enjoyable, self-managed life

By SharpBrains | January 23, 2015

. AARP just released a very inter­est­ing brain health research study based on 1,200 online inter­views con­duct­ed in August 2014. Key find­ings include: Main­tain­ing a healthy lifestyle is impor­tant to all con­sumers (99% find it at least some­what impor­tant). Brain health is the sec­ond most impor­tant com­po­nent in main­tain­ing a healthy lifestyle, after heart health (37%…

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Study: For healthy older adults, social brain training offers the most clear benefits

By SharpBrains | November 26, 2014

— If Home Brain Train­ing Apps Don’t Work, What Does? (Health­line): “In a study pub­lished online Nov. 18 in PLOS Med­i­cine, Aus­tralian researchers reviewed 52 pre­vi­ous stud­ies that looked at the ben­e­fits of com­put­er­ized brain train­ing soft­ware for 4,885 healthy seniors. While brain train­ing pro­grams like Lumos­i­ty, Cogmed, and Posit Sci­ence promise to help you…

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Out: crossword puzzles. In: digital cognitive assessments and training

By SharpBrains | October 10, 2014

Do brain games work? (The Boston Globe): “There’s intense interest?—?and the poten­tial for big money?—?in the world of brain games. Lumosity…claims 60 mil­lion users…The mar­ket for Lumos­i­ty and com­peti­tors like Cogmed and Posit Sci­ence is grow­ing 25 per­cent a year, accord­ing to Sharp­Brains, a neu­ro-well­­ness research firm. 

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