Why retirement planning should include mental fitness

By SharpBrains | February 16, 2015

. Are You Men­tal­ly Fit Enough to Plan for Retire­ment? (Mon­ey): “In this era of “self-direc­t­ed” retire­ment (no pen­sions, you make all the invest­ment choic­es) post­pon­ing mak­ing a real plan pos­es a par­tic­u­lar risk to future secu­ri­ty. Not only are the logis­tics of plan­ning hard enough—when to col­lect Social Secu­ri­ty, how to bud­get for expenses,…

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Update: 2009 Market Report Finds Growth, Promise and Confusion

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 1, 2009

Here you have the April 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. We are excit­ed to release our 2009 mar­ket report The State of the Brain Fit­ness Soft­ware Mar­ket 2009.…

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Alzheimer’s Early and Accurate Diagnosis: Normal Aging vs. Alzheimer’s Disease

By Dr. Murali Doraiswamy | April 29, 2009

(Edi­tor’s Note: I recent­ly came across an excel­lent book and resource, The Alzheimer’s Action Plan: The Experts’ Guide to the Best Diag­no­sis and Treat­ment for Mem­o­ry Prob­lems, just released in paper­back. Dr. Murali Doraiswamy, one of the authors and lead­ing Alzheimer’s expert, kind­ly helped us cre­ate a 2‑part arti­cle series to share with Sharp­Brains readers…

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Alzheimer’s Risk and Prevention: the Cognitive Reserve

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 22, 2008

A cou­ple of recent research find­ings are mak­ing the media rounds, bring­ing much need­ed atten­tion to the high Alzheimer’s rates among Lati­nos and to pre­ven­tive approach­es based on the Cog­ni­tive Reserve — such as, what jobs we choose: More Alzheimer’s risk for His­pan­ics, stud­ies find (Inter­na­tion­al Her­ald Tri­bune): — Stud­ies sug­gest that many His­pan­ics may…

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