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The National Institute of Mental Health gives $2M grant to identify factors that make working memory training work (or not)

October 24, 2016 by SharpBrains

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Under­stand­ing Indi­vid­ual Dif­fer­ences: UC River­side psy­chol­o­gy pro­fes­sor receives $1.9 mil­lion grant to study mem­o­ry train­ing (press release):

“Aaron Seitz, a psy­chol­o­gy pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, River­side and the direc­tor of the UCR Brain Game Cen­ter for men­tal fit­ness and well­be­ing, and Susanne Jaeg­gi, an asso­ciate pro­fes­sor at the school of edu­ca­tion at UC Irvine, have been award­ed a $1.9 mil­lion grant to study mem­o­ry train­ing [Read more…] about The Nation­al Insti­tute of Men­tal Health gives $2M grant to iden­ti­fy fac­tors that make work­ing mem­o­ry train­ing work (or not)

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Aaron Seitz, aging, Brain Game Center, Brain-Fitness, Brain-games, Brain-Training, cognitive boost, Memory-Training, mental health conditions, mental well being, mental-fitness, NIMH, Traumatic-Brain-Injury, UC Riverside

Must-read interview with George Rebok, PhD: Can cognitive training help aging brains?

December 26, 2014 by SharpBrains

george_rebokCan Train­ing Help Aging Brains? (Web­MD):

George Rebok, PhD, con­duct­ed one of the largest stud­ies to date look­ing at how cog­ni­tive train­ing affects old­er adults. Rebok, a pro­fes­sor at the Cen­ter on Aging and Health at Johns Hop­kins School of Pub­lic Health, talks about the study find­ings, com­mer­cial­ly avail­able brain train­ing, and what he rec­om­mends for brain health.

“What we found was I think very encour­ag­ing and also some­what sur­pris­ing [Read more…] about Must-read inter­view with George Rebok, PhD: Can cog­ni­tive train­ing help aging brains?

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: activities of daily living, Alzheimers-disease, Brain-health, Brain-Training, cognitive-skills, Cognitive-Training, George Rebok, Memory-Training, personalized-medicine, reasoning, speed-of-processing

Matthew Barrett: Human memory is not a recording device

November 20, 2013 by SharpBrains

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Matthew Bar­rett

What excites you the most about your job?
As a Pro­fes­sor and the founder of Brain Train­ers Men­tal Fit­ness LLC, I love see­ing how the right infor­ma­tion can have a life-chang­ing effect on people.

Please tell us about your inter­est in applied brain sci­ence. What areas are you most inter­est­ed in? What moti­vat­ed you to pur­sue work in your field?
I’m an edu­ca­tor first and fore­most: I like to see peo­ple empow­ered with clear, accu­rate, and use­ful infor­ma­tion about their brains. Just under­stand­ing more about diet, exer­cise and sleep could rev­o­lu­tion­ize our soci­ety. Beyond edu­ca­tion, I’m espe­cial­ly inter­est­ed in biofeed­back, neu­ro­feed­back, mind­ful­ness, men­tal ath­let­ics, and lucid dreaming.

What are 1–2 key things you’d like every per­son to under­stand regard­ing his/ her own brain and mind, that you think is com­mon­ly mis­rep­re­sent­ed or not addressed in the pop­u­lar media?

Peo­ple just expect too much of human mem­o­ry. It’s not a record­ing device. I can’t count the num­ber of times some­one has come to me think­ing there was some­thing “wrong” with their mem­o­ry, only to describe lim­i­ta­tions that are per­fect­ly nor­mal. I’m con­sid­er­ing putting this on my tomb­stone: “There is noth­ing wrong with you!” [Read more…] about Matthew Bar­rett: Human mem­o­ry is not a record­ing device

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: biofeedback, brain-trainer, dreaming, mathew barrett, Memory-Training, mental athletics, mental-fitness, mindfulness, neuro feedback

Update: Connecting technology, healthy living, healthcare, concussions, and the Brain

September 28, 2012 by SharpBrains

Time for Sharp­Brains’ Sep­tem­ber 2012 eNewslet­ter, fea­tur­ing lead­ing-edge research and insights to help con­nect the dots among tech­nol­o­gy, healthy liv­ing, healthare, con­cus­sions, and–our protagonist–the brain.

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Tech­nol­o­gy & the Brain:
  • Is the Inter­net mak­ing us dumb­er? (Nope, just different)
  • Increas­ing cog­ni­tive loads on min­ers’ brains: good exam­ple of where soci­ety is heading
  • Brain fit­ness meets HRV and EEG biometrics
  • Employ­ee Assis­tance Pro­grams enhance cor­po­rate well­ness with brain training
  • The NIH Toolbox:First Com­pre­hen­sive & Stan­dard­ized Tests of Brain Function
  • MMSE®/MMSE®-2™ Cog­ni­tive Impair­ment Screen­er, Now a Mobile App

Healthy Liv­ing & the Brain:

  • Why do Super­Agers Main­tain Mem­o­ry and a Thick Cortex?
  • Will Medicare’s Annu­al Well­ness Vis­it enhance phys­i­cal & cog­ni­tive health? Prob­a­bly — if peo­ple go
  • Health val­ue of Omega‑3 sup­ple­ments is increas­ing­ly questioned
  • Good Q&A on Mild Cog­ni­tive Impairment

Health­care & the Brain:

  • Map­ping the Brain To Bet­ter Enhance and Treat the Mind
  • Cog­ni­tive ther­a­py or med­ica­tion? Brain scans may help per­son­al­ize treatments
  • Mon­i­tor­ing EEG Brain Activ­i­ty to Per­son­al­ize Mem­o­ry Training
  • Train­ing Atten­tion and Mem­o­ry after Bypass Surgery
  • MRI scan tech­ni­cians can expe­ri­ence neg­a­tive neu­rocog­ni­tive effects

Con­cus­sions & the Brain:

  • Retool­ing cog­ni­tive reha­bil­i­ta­tion for mil­i­tary patients with trau­mat­ic brain injury
  • NFL donates $30 mil­lion to improve con­cus­sion & brain injury care
Have a great month of October!

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Monitoring EEG Brain Activity to Personalize Memory Training

September 12, 2012 by SharpBrains

San­dia shows mon­i­tor­ing brain activ­i­ty dur­ing study can help pre­dict test per­for­mance (press release):

“The team mon­i­tored test sub­jects’ brain activ­i­ty while they stud­ied word lists, then used the EEG (elec­troen­cephalog­ra­phy) to pre­dict who would remem­ber the most infor­ma­tion. Because [Read more…] about Mon­i­tor­ing EEG Brain Activ­i­ty to Per­son­al­ize Mem­o­ry Training

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Transcript: Dr. Gary Small on Enhancing Memory and the Brain

November 1, 2011 by SharpBrains

Below you can find the full tran­script of our engag­ing Q&A ses­sion today on mem­ory, mem­ory tech­niques and brain-healthy lifestyles with Dr. Gary  Small, Direc­tor of UCLA’s Mem­ory Clin­ic and Cen­ter on Aging, and author of The Mem­ory Bible. You can learn more about his book  Here, and learn more about upcom­ing Brain Fit­ness Q&A Ses­sions Here.

Per­haps one of the best ques­tions and answers was:

2:55
Ques­tion: Gary, you’ve worked many years in this field. Let us in on the secret. What do YOU do you, per­son­al­ly, to pro­mote your own brain fitness?
2:57
Answer: I try to get at least 30 min­utes of aer­o­bic con­di­tion­ing each day; try to min­i­mize my stress by stay­ing con­nect­ed with fam­i­ly and friends; gen­er­al­ly eat a brain healthy diet (fish, fruits, veg­eta­bles), and try to bal­ance my online time with my offline time. Which reminds me, I think it is almost time for me to sign off line. [Read more…] about Tran­script: Dr. Gary Small on Enhanc­ing Mem­o­ry and the Brain

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