Posit Science, Nintendo Brain Age, and Brain Training Topics

By Alvaro Fernandez | June 24, 2008 |

A few col­leagues referred me over the week­end to a very nice arti­cle at busi­ness pub­li­ca­tion Port­fo­lio. While the arti­cle does an excel­lent job at intro­duc­ing the read­er to the con­cept and promise of com­put­er­ized cog­ni­tive assess­ments, it also con­tributes to the mythol­o­gy of “Brain Age”.  Let’s first take a look at the arti­cle How…

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Brain Fitness and SharpBrains.com in the Press

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 13, 2007 |

Grow­ing media atten­tion on the brain fit­ness field. At least on the “Healthy Aging” seg­ment (I pre­dict the media with catch up soon with devel­op­ments in oth­er areas, from cog­ni­tive train­ing for kids and adults with ADD/ ADHD to stroke and TBI reha­bil­i­ta­tion, to peak per­for­mance for cor­po­rate train­ing). First, a superb arti­cle by Leslie…

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