Growing debate about the ethics and regulation of direct-to-consumer transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)

By SharpBrains | December 6, 2019

___ Accord­ing to the adver­tis­ing hype, you too can enjoy incred­i­ble neur­al and psy­cho­log­i­cal ben­e­fits in the com­fort of your own home by using a sim­ple elec­tri­cal device that offers tran­scra­nial direct cur­rent stim­u­la­tion (tDCS). For instance, three dif­fer­ent mod­els of tDCS devices sold online claim to improve mood, increase cre­ativ­i­ty, enhance mem­o­ry, accel­er­ate learning,…

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Calisthenics and Brain Games for a Child’s Mind

By SharpBrains | April 29, 2013

Brain Games Aim to Make Kids Smarter (Sci­Am Mind, requires sub­scrip­tion): “Sci­en­tists have con­coct­ed men­tal fit­ness reg­i­mens to strength­en weak think­ing skills in students—in effect, mak­ing kids smarter…Psychologists have long believed that think­ing capac­i­ties such as atten­tion, mem­o­ry and rea­son­ing were fixed, but 

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Is the Internet Good or Bad for Your Brain?

By SharpBrains | February 13, 2013

“The con­tro­ver­sy itself is super­fi­cial; as the obvi­ous real­i­ty is the inter­net and tech­nol­o­gy are not only here to stay, but con­stant­ly evolv­ing and per­me­at­ing more of our lives…The real con­ver­sa­tion should be how we can best use the Inter­net in smarter ways that help us to mon­i­tor and enhance the brain, and how can…

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Can You Make Yourself Smarter? Yes. Real question is, How?

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 20, 2012

A new arti­cle in The New York Times, Can You Make Your­self Smarter, pro­vides a great overview of work­ing mem­o­ry and cog­ni­tive train­ing: — “We see atten­tion and work­ing mem­o­ry as the car­dio­vas­cu­lar func­tion of the brain,” Jaeg­gi says.“If you train your atten­tion and work­ing mem­o­ry, you increase your basic cog­ni­tive skills that help you for…

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Will the Apple Tablet Support or Hinder Users Cognitive Fitness?

By Luc P. Beaudoin | January 26, 2010 |

Rumor has it that Apple is going to announce a tablet com­put­er, which may well become a rev­o­lu­tion­ary new way for users to read and expe­ri­ence all kinds of edu­ca­tion­al con­tent. Will it sup­port or hin­der our Cog­ni­tive  Fit­ness? In this arti­cle, I describe the cri­te­ria that a tablet com­put­er and its tech­no­log­i­cal ecosys­tem must…

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Brain Training/ Fitness Seminars

By Alvaro Fernandez | June 16, 2008 |

Sev­er­al hun­dred peo­ple par­tic­i­pat­ed in our first Brain Fit­ness Webi­nar Series, and are glad how the exper­i­ment well. We are already think­ing of top­ics and speak­ers for a sec­ond one, so stay tuned! In case you could­n’t attend them, we are shar­ing the slides we used (we did not record the webi­nar ses­sions). Here you go: 1)…

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