Dr. Gregory Bayer on Adding Brain to Behavioral Healthcare

Dr. Bay­er will dis­cuss Adding Brain to Behav­ioral Health­care, as part of the ses­sion Where will neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty-based inter­ven­tions be accessed, and how will they be reg­u­lated and paid for? at the upcom­ing 2012 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (June 7–14th, 2012).

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5 Quotes on Neuroplasticity-Based Healthcare and Innovation for an Aging Society

Mar­i­an Dia­mond, UC-Berke­­ley: “Peo­ple fre­quent­ly do the same lev­el of cross­word puz­zles to stim­u­late their brains year after year. They do not chal­lenge their brains with more dif­fi­cult lev­els of puz­zles. In our research, we showed that if we chal­lenged the rats to reach their food cups by hav­ing to climb over many obstruc­tions, their…

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United BioSource Corporation Announces Acquisition of Cognitive Drug Research (computerized cognitive testing)

Press release: “Leader in cog­ni­tion mea­sure­ment inte­grates into UBC to max­i­mize mea­sure­ment pre­ci­sion of piv­otal end­points and ensure data integri­ty. Unit­ed BioSource Cor­po­ra­tion (UBC) today announced the acqui­si­tion of CDR” Press release (09/10/09): Here Analy­sis for mem­bers of Sharp­Brains Net­work for Brain Fit­ness Inno­va­tion: Here For con­text, see our pre­vi­ous arti­cle titled Com­put­er­ized Cog­ni­tive Assess­ments: opportunities…

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Update: Preparing Society for the Cognitive Age, and Industry Webinar

Here you have the August 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. Sci­en­tif­ic pub­li­ca­tion Fron­tiers in Neu­ro­science recent­ly pub­lished a spe­cial issue on Aug­ment­ing Cog­ni­tion, and invit­ed me to contribute…

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Brain Teasers on Brain Training/ Games for Health Conference

Giv­en the whole dis­tract­ing “con­tro­ver­sy” of whether Nin­ten­do Brain Age “works” or not, I have start­ed to use the fol­low­ing “brain teasers” in my talks in order to help the audi­ence gain a more use­ful per­spec­tive of what is going on. They worked great both in the Medicare Read­mis­sions Sum­mit in DC a few weeks…

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Corporate Wellness Programs start to include Brain Health

Brain-fit­­ness games join work­place, as well as senior cen­ter, arse­nals (Mar­ket­Watch) — “Con­sumers and retire­ment homes have made brain-fit­­ness games and exer­cis­es a com­mer­cial hit, but now some insur­ers and employ­ers are incor­po­rat­ing them into well­ness pro­grams that pro­mote health not just for the body but also for the mind.” — “Improv­ing brain health can result…

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