Your comments on cognitive training, Posit Science, Alzheimer’s Australia, gerontology, games

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 3, 2008 |

I have fall­en behind on answer­ing a few excel­lent recent com­ments ‑on cog­ni­tive train­ing over­all, Posit Sci­ence and Alzheimer’s Aus­tralia, geron­tol­ogy and the brain, the val­ue of videogames‑, so let me address them here: 1) Nicks says (Brain Fit­ness Pro­grams For Seniors Hous­ing, Health­care and Insur­ance Providers: Eval­u­a­tion Check­list) “This report is inter­est­ing and it addresses…

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Allstate: Can we improve Driver Safety using Posit Science InSight?

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 1, 2008

Insur­ance com­pa­ny All­state and brain fit­ness soft­ware devel­op­er Posit Sci­ence just announced (see press release Pro­tect­ing Penn­syl­va­nia Dri­vers, One Brain at a Time) a very intel­li­gent ini­tia­tive: Video exer­cis­es aid dri­ving skills (Chica­go Tri­bune) -“All­state, which called the Posit pro­gram “poten­tial­ly the next big break­through in auto­mo­bile safe­ty,” said it expects its soft­ware exer­cis­es to…

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Newsletter: Navigating Games for Health and Education

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 30, 2008

Here you have the twice-a-month newslet­ter with our most pop­u­lar blog posts. Please remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive this Newslet­ter by email, sim­ply by sub­mit­ting your email at the top of this page. Quick, Are videogames good or bad? That’s an impos­si­ble ques­tion. Good or bad for what? What  spe­cif­ic games are we talk­ing about?…

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Brain Training and Cognitive Health: September News

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 28, 2008 |

A round-up of inter­est­ed news dur­ing the month: 1) Train­ing Young Brains to Behave (New York Times) 2) Head Games (OpEd in New York Times) 3) Will Geron­tol­ogy rec­og­nize the Brain? (Amer­i­can Soci­ety on Aging event) 4) Brain func­tion gets a boost from walk­ing (Los Ange­les Times) 5) An idea whose time has (final­ly) come (McK­night’s Long Term Care News) 6)…

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Nintendo Brain Training and Math in UK Schools

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 25, 2008

Com­put­er game boosts maths scores (BBC): — “It also found improve­ments in pupils’ con­cen­tra­tion and behav­iour.” — “The study involved more than 600 pupils in 32 schools across Scot­land using the Brain Train­ing from Dr Kawashima game on the Nin­ten­do DS every day.” — “Researchers found that while all groups had improved their scores, the group…

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Brain Fitness around the Globe

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 19, 2008

A few days ago, Rajen­dra, an Indi­an read­er of our newslet­ter, told us that ASHA (the acronym for the Amer­i­can Seniors Hous­ing Asso­ci­a­tion, for whom we pre­pared this spe­cial report), means Hope in Hin­di. Asha, every­one! Then, we saw a few excel­lent arti­cles on Brain Fit­ness and Sharp­Brains in mul­ti­ple lan­guages and con­ti­­nents-time to prac­tice our…

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