Study: Brain training games could be used to assess cognitive abilities, replace the Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE)

By SharpBrains | August 10, 2018

___ The Use of Mobile Games to Assess Cog­ni­tive Func­tion of Elder­ly with and with­out Cog­ni­tive Impair­ment (Jour­nal of Alzheimer’s Dis­ease): Abstract: In the past few years numer­ous mobile games have been devel­oped to train the brain. There is a lack of infor­ma­tion about the rela­tion between the scores obtained in these games and the cognitive…

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UT Dallas researcher secures $2.7m grant to better monitor and address TBI-related cognitive and functional deficits

By UT Dallas | January 18, 2017

Sci­en­tist Gets Grant for Study of Vet­er­ans with Trau­mat­ic Brain Injuries (UT Dal­las release): A researcher from the Cen­ter for Brain­Health at UT Dal­las has been award­ed a $2.7 mil­lion grant from the Depart­ment of Defense (DoD) under the Joint Warfight­er Med­ical Research Pro­gram. The grant, award­ed to Dr. Daniel Kraw­czyk, deputy direc­tor of the…

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Can biofeedback-based videogames help kids regulate anger and emotions?

By SharpBrains | October 25, 2012

Video Game With Biofeed­back Teach­es Chil­dren to Curb Their Anger (Sci­ence Dai­ly): “Chil­dren with seri­ous anger prob­lems can be helped by a sim­ple video game that hones their abil­i­ty to reg­u­late their emo­tions, finds a pilot study at Boston Chil­dren’s Hos­pi­tal. Results were pub­lished online Octo­ber 24 in the jour­nal Ado­les­cent Psychiatry

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Dr. Sheryl Flynn on Getting Evidence-Based Rehab Video Games Into the Hands of Users

By SharpBrains | May 17, 2012

Dr. Fly­nn will dis­cuss her entre­pre­neur­ial jour­ney to get Evi­­dence-Based Rehab Video Games Into the Hands of Users, at the upcom­ing 2012 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (June 7–14th, 2012). Dr. Sheryl Fly­nn is the founder and CEO of Blue Mar­ble Game Co, a seri­ous games com­pany that focus­es design and devel­op­ment of video games to enhance 

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Gaming and Neuroscience: Opportunities and Challenges

By Aki Nikolaidis | October 4, 2011

A cou­ple weeks ago I attend­ed the Enter­tain­ment Soft­ware and Cog­ni­tive Neu­rother­a­peu­tics Con­fer­ence, ESCoNS, at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia San Fran­cis­co. The speak­ers’ talks were insight­ful, sur­pris­ing, and inspir­ing in many regards. The pur­pose of this meet­ing was to bring togeth­er great minds in a vari­ety of fields from neu­ro­science to game design and to…

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June Update: High-Quality Summer Brain Reading

By SharpBrains | June 30, 2011

Let’s explore some  high-qual­i­­ty new resources, announce­ments and stud­ies in this June edi­tion of the month­ly Sharp­Brains eNewslet­ter. The field is clear­ly on the move! Por­traits of the Mind: Sev­er­al sharp brains (Rick, Karen, John, thanks!) strong­ly rec­om­mend the recent book  “Por­traits of the Mind: Visu­al­iz­ing the Brain from Antiq­uity to the 21st Cen­tury” (which includes the…

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