Exploiting Technology and Collaboration to Enable Quality Aging

Edi­tor’s Note: This arti­cle is excerpt­ed from Longevi­ty Rules: How to Age Well Into the Future,  a com­pendi­um 0f 34 excel­lent essays where lead­ing longevi­ty experts help pol­i­cy­mak­ers and the pub­lic bet­ter under­stand the aging expe­ri­ence. In the essay below, Joseph Cough­lin, the Direc­tor of MIT Age­Lab, explores the role that tech­nol­o­gy can play in aging…

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Meet the 16 Judges of the 2010 Brain Fitness Innovation Awards

We are hon­ored to count on such a dis­tin­guished, inter­dis­ci­pli­nary and for­ward-look­ing Inno­va­tion Awards Judg­ing Pan­el (please judge for your­self!), thanks to the par­tic­i­pa­tion of: Baba Shiv, Pro­fes­sor at Stan­ford Busi­ness School, con­ducts research on con­sumer deci­sion mak­ing and deci­sion neu­ro­science, with spe­cif­ic empha­sis on the neu­ro­log­i­cal under­pin­nings of emo­tion and moti­va­tion in deci­sion mak­ing. His…

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Henry G. Molaison (H.M.): On Learning and Memory

H. M., an Unfor­get­table Amne­si­ac, Dies at 82 — Obit­u­ary — “On Tues­day evening at 5:05, Hen­ry Gus­tav Molai­son  known world­wide only as H. M., to pro­tect his pri­va­cy died of res­pi­ra­to­ry fail­ure at a nurs­ing home in Wind­sor Locks, Conn. His death was con­firmed by Suzanne Corkin, a neu­ro­sci­en­tist at the Mass­a­chu­setts Insti­tute of…

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Resources for Brain Health Across the Lifespan

As promised in my pre­vi­ous post on Neu­ro­ge­n­e­sis and Brain Plas­tic­i­ty in Adult Brains, I will now list some inter­views, video, arti­cles, and books that go hand-in-hand with these fas­ci­nat­ing top­ics we are dis­cussing. Please com­ment below if you have favorite addi­tion­al resources! NEUROGENESIS MIT news – Picow­er researcher finds neu­ron growth in adult brain Society…

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