FAQ about SharpBrains Council for Brain Fitness Innovation

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 30, 2010

We have received many good ques­tions about the new Sharp­Brains Coun­cil for Brain Fit­ness Inno­va­tion — below you have some answers. Ques­tion: We are based in Asia/ Australia/ Europe. Will time dif­fer­ences pre­vent us from par­tic­i­pat­ing in month­ly brief­in­gs and ben­e­fit­ing from the Coun­cil? Answer: We will do our best to facil­i­tate a tru­ly global…

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Preparing Society for the Cognitive Age (Frontiers in Neuroscience article)

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 7, 2009 |

(Edi­tor’s note: this arti­cle belongs to the excel­lent May 2009 spe­cial issue on Aug­ment­ing Cog­ni­tion at sci­en­tif­ic jour­nal Fron­tiers in Neu­ro­science. The arti­cle, an indus­try overview, is repro­duced here with autho­riza­tion by the Fron­tiers Research Foun­da­tion) Prepar­ing Soci­ety for the Cog­ni­tive Age By Alvaro Fer­nan­dez Ground­break­ing cog­ni­tive neu­ro­science research has occurred over the last 20 years — without…

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Brain Teasers on Brain Training/ Games for Health Conference

By Alvaro Fernandez | June 16, 2009

Giv­en the whole dis­tract­ing “con­tro­ver­sy” of whether Nin­ten­do Brain Age “works” or not, I have start­ed to use the fol­low­ing “brain teasers” in my talks in order to help the audi­ence gain a more use­ful per­spec­tive of what is going on. They worked great both in the Medicare Read­mis­sions Sum­mit in DC a few weeks…

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Bob Woodruff Foundation for TBI survivors

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 17, 2008

Sev­er­al read­ers, after enjoy­ing my inter­view with Lee Woodruff on the Bob Woodruff Foun­da­tion and help­ing Trau­mat­ic Brain Injury sur­vivors, asked for the address of the Bob Woodruff Foun­da­tion, in order to send a dona­tion via check. Here is the right address: Bob Woodruff Foun­da­tion PO Box 955 Bris­tow, VA 20136 Thank you for your gen­eros­i­ty! Inter­view with…

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Top 10 Cognitive Fitness Events of 2008 (Webinar)

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 2, 2008

We have just announced an upcom­ing webi­nar to pro­vide a mar­ket update:  Top 10 Cog­ni­tive Fit­ness Events of 2008 — A Mar­ket Update. When: Thurs­day Decem­ber 11th, from 12:00 to 1:00 pm Pacif­ic Time. The same webi­nar will be repeat­ed on Thurs­day Decem­ber 18th, from 9:00 to 10:00 pm Pacif­ic Time. The Top 10 Cog­ni­tive Fitness…

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The Cognitive Health and Fitness Market On The Move

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 10, 2008 |

As you have prob­a­bly seen, the Cog­ni­tive Health and Brain Fit­ness field is rapid­ly evolv­ing, so let me high­light some of the main recent devel­op­ments affect­ing the field: 1) Pub­lic pol­i­cy ini­tia­tives:  — The Gov­ern­ment of Ontario, Cana­da, announced a $10m invest­ment in Bay­crest Research Cen­ter to help devel­op and com­mer­cial­ize brain fit­ness tech­nolo­gies. This $10m…

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