Can Brain Fitness Innovation Enhance Cognitive Rehab and Driving Safety?

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 19, 2011 |

Today we share must-read insights from  Kather­ine Sul­li­van, Direc­tor of the Brain Fit­ness Cen­ter at Wal­ter Reed Army Med­ical Cen­ter, and Peter Kissinger, Pres­i­dent of the AAA Foun­da­tion for Traf­fic Safe­ty. Both of them will dis­cuss their ongo­ing work and lessons learned at the upcom­ing 2011 Sharp­Brains Sum­mit (March 30th — April 1st, 2011). The interviews…

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NovaVision selling assets (neuroplasticity-based Visual Restoration Therapy)

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 20, 2010

We men­tioned in our recent mar­ket report that NovaV­i­sion had declared bank­rup­cy. The com­pa­ny tried to trans­form its busi­ness mod­el in the last cou­ple of years — obvi­ous­ly it did­n’t work. Now the trustee is shar­ing a few more details and look­ing for ways to dis­pose of its assets: NovaVision’s FDA-Cleared Visu­al Restora­tion Ther­a­py (VRT) System…

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Centre for Brain Fitness at Baycrest: Interview with Dr. William Reichman

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 23, 2009 |

In April 2008, Bay­crest, a lead­ing research insti­tute focused on aging and brain func­tion, received $10-mil­lion from the Ontario Gov­ern­ment to cre­ate a ground­break­ing Cen­tre for Brain Fit­ness. Its stat­ed goal was to “devel­op and com­mer­cial­ize a range of prod­ucts designed to improve the brain health of aging Ontar­i­ans and oth­ers around the world”. “Our government…

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Neurocognitive assessments and sports concussions

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 5, 2009

Con­cus­sion effect ‘spans decades’ (BBC) — “Peo­ple con­cussed in their youth show sub­tle signs of men­tal and phys­i­cal prob­lems even more than 30 years lat­er, say Cana­di­an researchers.” — “Dr Louis de Beau­mont, who led the study, said: “This study shows that the effects of sports con­cus­sions in ear­ly adult­hood per­sist beyond 30 years post-concussion,…

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Update: Learning about Learning/ more on Brain Age

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 1, 2009

Here you have the Jan­u­ary edi­tion of our month­ly newslet­ter cov­er­ing cog­ni­tive health and brain fit­ness top­ics. Please remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive this Newslet­ter by email, sim­ply by sub­mit­ting your email at the top of this page. Bird’s Eye View  Brain fit­ness heads towards its tip­ping point: How do you know when some­thing is…

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Ten Reflections on Cognitive Health and Assessments

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 28, 2009

Let me sum­ma­rize ten high­lights and reflec­tions from stim­u­lat­ing dis­cus­sions on cog­ni­tive health and assess­ments I have had this month so far. Jan­u­ary 8–9th: Sym­po­sium on Co-Adap­­tive Learn­ing: Adap­tive Tech­nol­o­gy for the Aging (details Here), orga­nized by the Ari­zona State Uni­ver­si­ty’s Cen­ter for Adap­tive Neur­al Sys­tems: 1. Cog­ni­tive health is a crit­i­cal fac­tor in over­all healthcare,…

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