Study: Brain training games could be used to assess cognitive abilities, replace the Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE)

By SharpBrains | August 10, 2018

___ The Use of Mobile Games to Assess Cog­ni­tive Func­tion of Elder­ly with and with­out Cog­ni­tive Impair­ment (Jour­nal of Alzheimer’s Dis­ease): Abstract: In the past few years numer­ous mobile games have been devel­oped to train the brain. There is a lack of infor­ma­tion about the rela­tion between the scores obtained in these games and the cognitive…

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On the value and the limits of cognitive screening, as seen in President Trump’s examination

By SharpBrains | January 17, 2018

In the News: Why you may be mis­un­der­stand­ing the men­tal test that Trump passed with fly­ing col­ors (The Wash­ing­ton Post): “On its sur­face, the Mon­tre­al Cog­ni­tive Assess­ment (MoCA) test seems pret­ty easy. Can you draw a three-dimen­­sion­al cube? Can you iden­ti­fy these var­i­ous ani­mals? Can you draw a clock? Can you repeat back the phrase, “The cat…

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

By SharpBrains | September 28, 2012

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. — 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…

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MMSE®/MMSE®-2™ Cognitive Impairment Screener, Now a Mobile App

By SharpBrains | September 13, 2012

The MMSE®/MMSE®-2™ Cog­ni­tive Impair­ment Screen­er Goes Mobile in New App (press release): “One of the world’s most pop­u­lar and trust­ed assess­ments of cog­ni­tive impair­ment is now avail­able as a con­ve­nient app for smart­phones and tablets. Like the paper-and-pen­­cil ver­sion, the app can be used to screen for cog­ni­tive impair­ment, to select patients for clin­i­cal tri­als research…

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Cardiac Surgery Can Impact Long-term Cognitive Functioning, Suggesting Need for Monitoring and Rehab

By SharpBrains | July 5, 2012

Post-Op Delir­i­um’s Toll on Men­tal Func­tion May Linger: Study (US News): “Delir­i­um after car­diac surgery has been thought of as a brief, reversible con­di­tion, but new research is sug­gest­ing that [men­tal] recov­ery for some peo­ple may take much longer than thought, and that there are long-term cog­ni­tive con­se­quences,” said study co-lead author Jane Saczynski, 

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