NovaVision selling assets (neuroplasticity-based Visual Restoration Therapy)

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 20, 2010

We men­tioned in our recent mar­ket report that NovaV­i­sion had declared bank­rup­cy. The com­pa­ny tried to trans­form its busi­ness mod­el in the last cou­ple of years — obvi­ous­ly it did­n’t work. Now the trustee is shar­ing a few more details and look­ing for ways to dis­pose of its assets: NovaVision’s FDA-Cleared Visu­al Restora­tion Ther­a­py (VRT) System…

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Education AND Lifelong Cognitive Activities build Cognitive Reserve and Delay Memory Loss

By Dr. Pascale Michelon | August 25, 2009

In a recent­ly pub­lished sci­en­tif­ic study (see Hall C, et al “Cog­ni­tive activ­i­ties delay onset of mem­o­ry decline in per­sons who devel­op demen­tia” Neu­rol­o­gy 2009; 73: 356–361), Hall and col­leagues exam­ined how edu­ca­tion and stim­u­lat­ing activ­i­ties may inter­act to con­tribute to cog­ni­tive reserve. The study involved 488 ini­tial­ly healthy peo­ple, aver­age age 79, who enrolled…

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Brain News: Lifelong Learning for Cognitive Health

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 30, 2009

Here you have the March edi­tion of our month­ly newslet­ter cov­er­ing cog­ni­tive health and brain fit­ness top­ics. Please remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive this Newslet­ter by email, using the box at the top of this page. I know I am biased — but do believe this Newslet­ter issue might well be our best…

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Michael Merzenich: Brain Plasticity offers Hope for Everyone

By Dr. Ginger Campbell | March 9, 2009 |

“What­ev­er you strug­gle with in a sense as it stems from your neu­rol­o­gy, the inher­ent plas­tic­i­ty of the brain gives you a basis for improve­ment. This is a way under­uti­lized and under-appre­­ci­at­ed resource that well all have.” Dr. Michael Merzenich on the Brain Sci­ence Pod­cast #54, 2/13/09. Recent­ly there has been grow­ing con­tro­ver­sy about the…

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Update: The Challenges of Gerontology

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 14, 2008

Here you have the twice-a-month newslet­ter with our most pop­u­lar blog posts. Please remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive this Newslet­ter by email, sim­ply by sub­mit­ting your email at the top of this page. First, I am pleased to report that have been invit­ed to par­tic­i­pate in a new ini­tia­tive by the World Eco­nom­ic Forum.…

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Brain Failure and Brain Fitness: A Farewell to Dementia?

By Dr. Joshua Steinerman | August 13, 2008 |

A dread­ed diag­no­sis, that dimmed and doom­ing dilem­ma. Feared, some­times fought, too often for­got­ten. It is the grayest, ghastli­est ele­phant in the room: demen­tia. What is demen­tia? I, like many oth­ers who ded­i­cate their pro­fes­sion­al efforts to its study and treat­ment, have no good answer. I believe we are lost in our lex­i­con, try­ing to…

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