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By SharpBrains | April 2, 2015

. App With a Mind For Improv­ing Trans­porta­tion Safe­ty (The Wall Street Jour­nal): “A team of sci­en­tists from Indone­sia has come up with a nov­el way to improve trans­porta­tion safe­ty in their coun­try through a mobile app that scans trans­port oper­a­tors’ brain waves and com­bines it with data on weath­er, vehi­cle and 

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Increasing cognitive loads on miners’ brains: good example of where society is heading

By SharpBrains | September 26, 2012

NIOSH to Study Cog­ni­tive Loads on Under­ground Coal Min­ers (Occu­pa­tion­al Health & Safe­ty): “NIOSH has pub­lished a notice out­lin­ing an inter­est­ing study it plans to under­take to under­stand the cog­ni­tive demands placed on under­ground coal min­ers by new safe­ty devices they must car­ry, with the indus­try increas­ing­ly deploy­ing wire­less com­mu­ni­ca­tion sys­tems, per­son­al dust mon­i­tors, and prox­im­i­ty detectors……

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AAA to deploy Brain Fitness Software DriveSharp to Assess and Train Older Driver’s Brains

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 14, 2009

The AAA Foun­da­tion for Traf­fic Safe­ty just start­ed to rec­om­mend a new dri­ver safe­ty pro­gram called Dri­ve­Sharp (see AAA and Posit Release Pro­gram to Improve Dri­vers’ Minds), devel­oped by Posit Sci­ence. Dri­ve­Sharp is a com­put­er­ized cog­ni­tive assess­ment and train­ing tool based on Kar­lene Bal­l’s research on old­er adults’ cog­ni­tive fit­ness and dri­ving. In the press…

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Brain/ Cognitive Enhancement with drugs… and cereal?

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 26, 2009

Sev­er­al recent arti­cles and news: Brain Gain: the under­ground world of “neu­roen­hanc­ing” drugs (The New York­er) — “Alex remains enthu­si­as­tic about Adder­all, but he also has a slight­ly jaun­diced cri­tique of it. “It only works as a cog­ni­tive enhancer inso­far as you are ded­i­cat­ed to accom­plish­ing the task at hand,” he said. “The num­ber of times…

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Research on Older Driver’s Safety

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 13, 2009

Good arti­cle in the New York Times today: An Epi­dem­ic of Crash­es Among the Aging? Unlike­ly, Study Says — “The (Insur­ance Insti­tute for High­way Dri­ving) insur­ance insti­tute is con­duct­ing fur­ther research to deter­mine why the risks appear to be going down for old­er dri­vers. It may be that today’s old­er dri­vers are sim­ply in bet­ter phys­i­cal and…

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