Update: The latest research and noninvasive neurotechnologies for brain health and mental fitness

By SharpBrains | May 29, 2020

Time for a new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains’ e‑newsletter! 1. Food for (non­par­ti­san) Thought: Should heads of state and can­di­dates to high office pass a cognitive/ men­tal fit­ness test? 2. A school psy­chol­o­gist shares good tips to sup­port our kids and, yes, man­age our own stress. Three Ss to reduce the stress of “home­school­ing” our kids: Sim­pli­fy, Structure,…

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BrainCheck raises $8 million to digitize cognitive/ neuropsychological assessments and better serve the aging population

By SharpBrains | October 17, 2019

_______________ This start­up just raised $8 mil­lion to help busy doc­tors assess the cog­ni­tive health of 50 mil­lion seniors (TechCrunch): “…star­tups increas­ing­ly rec­og­nize oppor­tu­ni­ties to cater to this aging pop­u­la­tion. Some are devel­op­ing prod­ucts to sell to indi­vid­u­als and their fam­i­ly mem­bers direct­ly; oth­ers are com­ing up with ways to empow­er those who work directly…

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Trend: More healthcare and research facilities offer multipronged brain fitness programs

By SharpBrains | August 22, 2016

Can an exer­cise rou­tine real­ly help keep your men­tal “mus­cles” in good shape? (Har­vard Health Let­ter): “Fear of los­ing your mem­o­ry and think­ing skills is one of the great­est con­cerns of get­ting old­er. Maybe that’s behind the increas­ing num­ber of clin­ics offer­ing brain fit­ness pro­grams. “Brain train­ing” isn’t a typ­i­cal exer­cise pro­gram; it incor­po­rates a…

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Brain health center closes after Medicare challenges its medical claims and treatments

By SharpBrains | March 20, 2015

. New Brain Cen­ter Clos­es Amid Medicare Dis­pute (Bethes­da Mag­a­zine): “Neur­Ex­pand Brain Cen­ter, the brain fit­ness and devel­op­ment cen­ter that opened in August in Friend­ship Heights, abrupt­ly closed this month amid a dis­pute with Medicare. Neu­rol­o­gist Majid Fotuhi, NeurExpand’s founder, said that Medicare reviewed the practice’s clin­i­cal pro­gram and 

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Cognitive Enhancement via Pharmacology AND Neuropsychology, in The New Executive Brain

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 30, 2009

(Edi­tor’s Note: giv­en the grow­ing media atten­tion to three appar­ent­ly sep­a­rate worlds ‑cog­ni­tive enhance­ment via drugs, brain fit­ness train­ing soft­ware, com­put­er­ized neu­rocog­ni­tive assessments‑, I found it refresh­ing to see our co-founder Elkhonon Gold­berg intro­duce the top­ic of cog­notrop­ic drugs with an inte­gra­tive per­spec­tive in the much updat­ed new edi­tion of his clas­sic book, now titled…

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