The Brain Fitness/ Training Market: An Executive Summary

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 7, 2008

Over the next weeks we are going to be shar­ing the Exec­u­tive Sum­ma­ry of our mar­ket report The State of the Brain Fit­ness Soft­ware Mar­ket 2008 with mem­bers and clients of sev­er­al part­ner orga­ni­za­tions (the British Colum­bia Seniors Liv­ing Asso­ci­a­tion, where I will be speak­ing this Thurs­day, Neu­rotech Reports, where I will speak on October…

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Nintendo Brain Training and Math in UK Schools

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 25, 2008

Com­put­er game boosts maths scores (BBC): — “It also found improve­ments in pupils’ con­cen­tra­tion and behav­iour.” — “The study involved more than 600 pupils in 32 schools across Scot­land using the Brain Train­ing from Dr Kawashima game on the Nin­ten­do DS every day.” — “Researchers found that while all groups had improved their scores, the group…

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Brain Fitness Programs For Seniors Housing, Healthcare and Insurance Providers: Evaluation Checklist

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 24, 2008 |

Dur­ing the research phase before the pub­li­ca­tion of the spe­cial report Brain Fit­ness Cen­ters in Seniors Hous­ing — A Field in the Mak­ing, pub­lished by the Amer­i­can Seniors Hous­ing Asso­ci­a­tion (ASHA), we real­ized that there were equal amounts of inter­est and con­fu­sion among exec­u­tives and pro­fes­sion­als think­ing about adding com­put­er-based cog­ni­tive exer­cise prod­ucts to their…

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Brain Fitness Centers in Senior Housing — A Field in the Making

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 8, 2008

The Amer­i­can Seniors Hous­ing Asso­ci­a­tion (ASHA) has just released an Spe­cial Issue Brief, titled Brain Fit­ness Cen­ters in Senior Hous­ing — A Field in the Mak­ing. We pre­pared it for their mem­bers, and it is now avail­able for pur­chase (You can click here for pur­chase and down­load. $25.) It was a plea­sure to learn more…

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Update: Major Implications from Brain Research

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 29, 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. Major Impli­ca­tions from Brain Research Should Social-Emo­­tion­al Learn­ing Be Part of Aca­d­e­m­ic Cur­ricu­lum?: It is clear by now that our brains…

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Cognitive Health News: August 2008

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 28, 2008

Here you have a roundup of inter­est­ing recent news on cog­ni­tive health top­ics and my com­men­tary: 1) Play­ing Video Games Offers Learn­ing Across Life Span, Say Stud­ies 2) Men­tal Floss at Mil­i­tary Offi­cer Mag­a­zine 3) Brain Train­ing dom­i­nates ’08 Euro sales (CVG Online) 4) Dakim’s [m]Power Adopt­ed by 150 Senior Liv­ing Com­mu­ni­ties … (Busi­ness Wire) 5)…

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