Posts Tagged ‘Nintendo-Brain-Age’
Brain, Mind and Body Blogs
A couple of great blog carnival editions (collections of blog posts around specific topics): — Encephalon: neuroscience and psychology. — Grand Rounds: health and medicine. And a good Radar Roundup of brain-related news. Note: our estimate for the whole market in 2007 is $225m, not $110m; and the Consumer Segment (mostly Nintendo Brain Age/ Academy, but not all)…
Read MoreReport: The State of the Brain Fitness/ Training Software Market 2008
After many months of work (and we hope many new neurons and stronger synapses in our brains), we have just released our inaugural report on the emerging Brain Fitness Software Market, the first to define the brain fitness and training software market and analyze the size and trends of its four customer segments. We estimate…
Read MoreBrain Training Games: Context, Trends, Questions
A spate of recent news coverage on brain fitness and “brain training” reflects a growing interest in natural, non-drug-based interventions to keep our brains sharp as we age. This interest is very timely, given the aging population, increasing Alzheimer’s rates, and soaring health care costs that place more emphasis than ever on prevention and changing…
Read MoreBrain Fitness Program: How to Evaluate and Choose One
The holidays are approaching and you can expect many software and game developers to advertise their products aggressively, trying to get you buy their “brain training” products for you or as a gift for a loved one. The good news is that there are more and more tools we can use to keep mentally stimulated and…
Read MoreGrowing Super Athletes (each of our students)
(Thanks for the lead, Tom!) David Brooks writes a great column (requires subscription) in the NYT titled A Critique of Pure Reason. He expands the usual restricted understanding of “education” to incorporate a wider sense of “learning”, by discussing 1. Where “The creative ones (politicians) will finally absorb the truth found in decades of research:…
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