Videogames for Cognitive Training?

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 24, 2008 |

There were a few inter­est­ing research papers pre­sent­ed at the last  Amer­i­can Psy­cho­log­i­cal Asso­ci­a­tion con­ven­tions around the theme: Play­ing Video Games Offers Learn­ing Across Life Span, Say Stud­ies — Skills Trans­fer to Class­room, Sur­gi­cal Pro­ce­dures, Sci­en­tif­ic Think­ing (press release). Prob­a­bly the most inter­est­ing study was that of 303 laparo­scop­ic sur­geons, which “showed that sur­geons who played…

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Upcoming Brain Health and Fitness Events

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 14, 2008 |

I will be speak­ing at the these upcom­ing con­fer­ences: if you are attend­ing, please let me know! » Boston, April 28th, 2008: Pan­el on Lat­est Brain Research Trends, at the Learn­ing and the Brain Con­fer­ence. » Boston, April 29th, 2008: New Devel­op­ments in Cog­ni­tive Retrain­ing Tech­nol­o­gy, at the Inno­va­tion Insti­tute. » Bal­ti­more, May 9th, 2008:  The State…

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Cognitive Fitness and Brain Improvement: 10 Debunked Myths

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 30, 2007 |

Over the last year we have inter­viewed a num­ber of lead­ing brain health and fit­ness sci­en­tists and prac­ti­tion­ers world­wide to learn about their research and thoughts, and have news to report. What can we say today that we could­n’t have said only 10 years ago? That what neu­ro­science pio­neer San­ti­a­go Ramon y Cajal claimed in…

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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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Brain Exercise and Brain Fitness July Monthly Digest

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 1, 2007 |

We are often told we share too much con­tent, but it is tough for us to share less giv­en all the news around cog­ni­tive and emo­tion­al train­ing! To make things eas­i­er we will offer a Month­ly Digest. Today, August 1st, we will list the most pop­u­lar July posts. Con­sid­er it your month­ly Brain Exer­cise Magazine…

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Brain Health through Serious Games and Brain Exercise

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 1, 2007 |

Eliane writes a great post esti­mat­ing the size of the Seri­ous Games Mar­ket, build­ing on the over­all Price­Wa­ter­house­C­oop­ers report that seemed to indi­cate that the Glob­al Video Game Mar­ket is Set to Explode. Some quotes “The over­all gam­ing audi­ence con­tin­ues to expand and become some­what more female and old­er than in the past thanks to casual…

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