Nintendo Brain Training, bestseller in Europe

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 16, 2008

From a recent arti­cle: Brain Train­ing dom­i­nates ’08 Euro sales (CVG Online) — “Over­all, four of the ten best­selling DS games in both coun­tries dur­ing the first six months of 2008 were in the brain train­ing genre.” — “Accord­ing to data released by sales mon­i­tor Media Con­trol GfK Inter­na­tion­al, the DS’s heavy­weight sta­tus in the European…

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Brain Fitness Newsletter: End-March Edition

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 1, 2008

(Please remem­ber you can sub­scribe, at the top of this page, to receive this com­pli­men­ta­ry bi-mon­th­­ly newslet­ter by email).  We are proud to announce that we now belong to the exclu­sive Sci­en­tif­ic Amer­i­can Part­ner Net­work. Sci­en­tif­ic Amer­i­can Mind spoke high­ly of our web­site last year, so it was only nat­ur­al (but made us very pleased) that…

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Nintendo Brain Training and Schools

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 25, 2008 |

An inter­est­ing recent arti­cle announce­sPupils to start day with Nin­ten­do Brain Train­ing(UK’s Dai­ly Tele­graph). Some quotes:  — “Chil­dren at 16 pri­ma­ry schools are to start each day by play­ing on a Nin­ten­do games con­sole, it was dis­closed yes­ter­day.” — “The pupils will play “brain train­ing” exer­cis­es before lessons after a pilot scheme at a school…

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Brain Training Games: Context, Trends, Questions

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 15, 2008 |

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…

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“Cells that fire together wire together” and Stanford Media X

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 18, 2007 |

That is the goal of Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty Media X: to fos­ter deep col­lab­o­ra­tions between indus­try and acad­e­mia, as high­light­ed in Busi­ness Week’s recent arti­cle The Vir­tu­al Meet­ing Room. The 5th Annu­al Media X Con­fer­ence on Research, Col­lab­o­ra­tion, Inno­va­tion and Pro­duc­tiv­i­ty served its pur­pose well for the last cou­ple of days: very fun and insight­ful presentations…

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