Monitoring health, wellness and fitness via wearable devices: Key Neurotech Patent #29

By SharpBrains | March 13, 2017

Today we are shar­ing a fas­ci­nat­ing 2007 patent assigned to Body­media. (As men­tioned, we are fea­tur­ing a foun­da­tion­al Per­va­sive Neu­rotech patent a day, from old­er to new­er by issue date) U.S. Patent No. 7,261,690: Appa­ra­tus for mon­i­tor­ing health, well­ness and fit­ness. Assignee(s): Body­media, Inc. Inventor(s): Eric Teller, John M. Stivoric, Christo­pher D. Kasabach, Christo­pher D. Pacione, John L.…

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Top 10 Brain Training Trends — Putting our Cognitive Reserve to Work

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 14, 2010 |

Yes­ter­day I had the chance to chat with Yaakov Stern, lead­ing Cog­ni­tive Reserve researcher at Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty, and then with a group of 25 life­long learn­ers in Ari­zona who attend­ed a brain fit­ness class (hel­lo, Robert and friends!) based on our con­sumer guide The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness. On reflec­tion, I found both conversations…

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Pooling data to accelerate Alzheimer’s research

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 13, 2010

Very inter­est­ing arti­cle in the New York Times on the rea­sons behind grow­ing research of how to detect Alzheimer’s Dis­ease: Rare Shar­ing of Data Leads to Progress on Alzheimer’s (New York Times)  (Sit­u­a­tion before) Sci­en­tists were look­ing for bio­mark­ers, but they were not get­ting very far. “The prob­lem in the field was that you had many different…

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Technology as the missing link to enable a brain-based model of brain care: interview with Dr. John Docherty

By SharpBrains | July 20, 2010 |

Dr. John Docher­ty is an Adjunct Pro­fes­sor of Psy­chi­a­try at the Weill Med­ical Col­lege, Cor­nell Uni­ver­si­ty, Direc­tor of Post Grad­u­ate Edu­ca­tion there, and Chief Med­ical Offi­cer of Brain Resource. Trained as a clin­i­cal research fel­low in neu­ropsy­chophar­ma­col­o­gy at NIMH, he lat­er returned as Chief of the Psy­choso­cial Treat­ments Research Branch, respon­si­ble for all fed­er­al­ly supported…

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Cognitive Health News: August 2008

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 28, 2008

Here you have a roundup of inter­est­ing recent news on cog­ni­tive health top­ics and my com­men­tary: 1) Play­ing Video Games Offers Learn­ing Across Life Span, Say Stud­ies 2) Men­tal Floss at Mil­i­tary Offi­cer Mag­a­zine 3) Brain Train­ing dom­i­nates ’08 Euro sales (CVG Online) 4) Dakim’s [m]Power Adopt­ed by 150 Senior Liv­ing Com­mu­ni­ties … (Busi­ness Wire) 5)…

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Brain Training Top 10 Future Trends

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 23, 2008 |

In an emerg­ing, dynam­ic, high growth mar­ket, like brain train­ing, it is dif­fi­cult to make pre­cise pro­jec­tions. But, we can observe a num­ber of trends that exec­u­tives, con­sumers, pub­lic pol­i­cy mak­ers, and the media should watch close­ly in the com­ing years, as brain fit­ness and train­ing becomes main­stream, new tools appear, and an ecosys­tem grows…

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