CBS News/TIME Series on Brain Neuroplasticity and Memory Exercises

CBS News and TIME mag­a­zine are team­ing up for a five-part series on the “The Com­pli­cat­ed, Mes­mer­iz­ing World of the Brain”.If you want to catch it:The CBS News reports began Wednes­day, Jan. 17, with three parts to air on the CBS Evening News (6:30–7 p.m. ET) and two parts on The Ear­ly Show (7–9 a.m. ET/PT), as well as extend­ed, Web-exclu­sive reports on CBSNews.com and com­pan­ion pro­gram­ming on CBS Radio News.

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Cogmed, Freeze-Framer, IntelliGym, MindFit, Posit Science

We are spend­ing more time talk­ing to jour­nal­ists these days. A fre­quent ques­tion we receive is, “OK, which com­put­er-based pro­grams do you con­sid­er to be Brain Fit­ness Pro­grams, not just “games” for pure fun”?. Our answer: the rate of devel­op­ment of new pro­grams by neu­ro­sci­en­tists world­wide is real­ly increas­ing, and there are already a few out there…

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Brain Calisthenics, Brain Fitness Center locations

…across the coun­try, brain health pro­grams are spring­ing up, offer­ing the pos­si­bil­i­ty of a cog­ni­tive foun­tain of youth.” “From “brain gyms” on the Inter­net to “brain-healthy” foods and activ­i­ties at assist­ed liv­ing cen­ters, the pro­grams are aimed at baby boomers anx­ious about enter­ing their gold­en years and at their par­ents try­ing to stave off mem­o­ry loss…

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New Brain Fitness Guide

We are very excit­ed to announce our new guide: <strong>Brain Fit­ness for Sharp Brains: Your <em>New</em> New Year Resolution,</strong>. Alvaro Fer­nan­dez and Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg wrote it with Car­o­line Lath­am in order to pro­vide an intro­duc­tion to the con­cept, sci­ence, and prac­tice of brain fitness.

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Posit Science, Nintendo Brain Training, Dakim…WebMD on Brain Fitness.

Good Web­MD 4‑page arti­cle on Brain Fit­ness pro­grams for seniors. Check Keep­ing Your Brain Fit for Life:Software com­pa­nies are offer­ing new pro­grams that promise to keep your brain sharp as you get old­er. Some quotes: — “The notion of brain fit­ness has even invad­ed pop­u­lar cul­ture. In April, Nin­ten­do released Brain Age, a Japan­ese-inspired, hand­held video…

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Posit Science Brain Fitness Channel

Posit Sci­ence has just start­ed offer­ing good infor­ma­tion on Brain Fit­ness in their site. Includ­ing a good arti­cle on the “Cross­word myth”, which we touched on 2 weeks ago with Brain Coach Answers: Aren’t cross­words and sudoku suf­fi­cient brain exer­cise?. A num­ber of sites and blogs, includ­ing us, may slight­ly dis­agree with their claim that “This…

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