Cogmed in the Chicago Tribune

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 22, 2007

One of the com­pa­nies pre­sent­ing at our pan­el on Brain Fit­ness at Neu­rotech Indus­try Con­fer­ence, May 17th in San Fran­cis­co, was Cogmed. They offer a work­ing mem­o­ry train­ing pro­gram focused now on kids with atten­tion deficits. What was excit­ing in the pan­el was to hear how Cogmed is help­ing kids train work­ing mem­o­ry, Posit Sci­ence is helping…

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Brain Fitness Program: how to select the right one

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 9, 2007 |

You can use our check­list for guid­ance on how to nav­i­gate through the grow­ing num­ber of brain fit­ness pro­grams. Forbes recent­ly pub­lished a great arti­cle on Top Brain Boost­ers, by Alli­son Van Dusen, with good lifestyle advice on life­long learn­ing, com­put­er pro­grams, social inter­ac­tion, stress reduc­tion, sleep, exer­cise and emo­tion­al health, and nutri­tion. The article…

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Baby Boomers, Memory and Wisdom

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 6, 2007

The NYT Mag­a­zine today is devot­ed to the top­ic of Can Sci­ence Tell us Who Grows Wis­er. It may have been even bet­ter had the ques­tion been, “What Sci­ence Tells us About How we Can Grow Wis­er”, but it is a pret­ty good issue any­way. A very good arti­cle on The Older–and–Wiser Hypoth­e­sis. Quotes:  One of…

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Brain Fitness News: Posit Science, Slate

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 25, 2007

A cou­ple of quick links DISCOVER Mag­a­zine, May 2007 issue, brings a great arti­cle titled “The Elas­tic Brain: Michael Merzenich believes you can tone your mind and stave off mem­o­ry loss. All it takes is time in his men­tal gym”. The arti­cle (which is not avail­able online) pro­vides a great overview of the amaz­ing work of…

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MindFit, Posit Science, Happy Neuron

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 20, 2007 |

The Seat­tle Times has a good brief arti­cle today on Posit Sci­ence, Hap­py Neu­ron Games and us (they men­tion Mind­Fit Brain Work­out to “work on short-term mem­o­ry, nam­ing, divid­ed atten­tion, plan­ning, hand-eye coor­di­na­tion and oth­er cog­ni­tive mea­sures.”). Check Is your brain ready for the chal­lenge? ——— For the record (giv­en a read­er’s com­ment below I…

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Brain Fitness at Neurotech Industry Conference

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 12, 2007 |

Zack Lynch from Neu­roIn­sights reminds us that the early­bird reg­is­tra­tion for the Neu­rotech Indus­try Invest­ing and Busi­ness con­fer­ence is about to expire. You can reg­is­ter by April 13th to save $300. Con­fer­ence Details: Date: May 17 — 18, 2007 Loca­tion: West­in San Fran­cis­co, Mill­brae, CA High­ly rec­om­mend­ed con­fer­ence for any­one work­ing on biotech, med­ical devices, diag­nos­tics and…

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