Measuring and treating Chemo Brain

By SharpBrains | October 3, 2012

‘Chemo Brain’ After Breast Can­cer Backed by Study (US News): “Breast can­cer patients treat­ed with chemother­a­py are at risk for mild men­tal deficits known col­lec­tive­ly as “chemo brain,” a new study finds. Researchers at the Mof­fitt Can­cer Cen­ter in Tam­pa, Fla., reviewed exist­ing research on brain func­tion (“cog­ni­tive” func­tion­ing) in

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Brain fitness meets HRV and EEG biometrics and neuroinformatics

By Yann Renard | September 27, 2012

As an active par­tic­i­pant in the Open­ViBE project (a soft­ware plat­form to design, test and use Brain-Com­put­er Inter­faces), in sci­en­tif­ic as well as tech­ni­cal capac­i­ties, I have long been focused on ways to process, ana­lyze and put brain sig­nals to prac­ti­cal use. When I start­ed read­ing on the sub­ject of brain fit­ness a few years…

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New & Excellent Review of Computerized Cognitive Training with Older Adults

By SharpBrains | July 16, 2012

“With­in 20 years, old­er adults will account for almost 25% of the U.S. pop­u­la­tion. From a health­care per­spec­tive, a major con­cern with an aging pop­u­la­tion is a high­er preva­lence of age-relat­ed impair­ment in cog­ni­tive func­tion. This expand­ing aging pop­u­la­tion high­lights the need to iden­ti­fy quick, effec­tive, low-cost solu­tions to delay patho­log­i­cal cog­ni­tive decline asso­ci­at­ed with…

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Psych testing of executive functions may predict soccer success

By SharpBrains | April 6, 2012

Psych test­ing may pre­dict soc­cer suc­cess (UPI): — “Psy­cho­log­i­cal test­ing could pre­dict the suc­cess of soc­cer play­ers by mea­sur­ing a cog­ni­tive phe­nom­e­non called “exec­u­tive func­tions,” Euro­pean researchers say.” — “Sci­en­tists at Swe­den’s Karolin­s­ka Insti­tute say they may have found the psy­cho­log­i­cal key to what has pre­vi­ous­ly been described as “game intel­li­gence” in suc­cess­ful soc­cer players.”…

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Study: Cognitive Training in Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI)

By SharpBrains | January 9, 2012 |

We just came across a new sci­en­tif­ic study on the val­ue and lim­i­ta­tions of cog­ni­tive train­ing in Mild Cog­ni­tive Impair­ment (MCI), based on a pro­gram of cog­ni­tive exer­cis­es pro­vid­ed by Lumos Labs (devel­op­ers of lumosity.com). Study: Com­put­erised Cog­ni­tive Train­ing for Old­er Per­sons With Mild Cog­ni­tive Impair­ment: A Pilot Study Using a Ran­domised Con­trolled Tri­al Design (Brain Impairment):

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