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Next: How to best civilize the mobile brain health and brain training Wild West (Tip: Consumer education may help more than pure regulation)

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GLASSES-AND-EYE-CHARTUC River­side Pro­fes­sor Slams Feds, Stands By His Health App (KQED):

“UC River­side pro­fes­sor of psy­chol­o­gy Aaron Seitz had an idea for a mobile health app based on his area of research.…Seitz is the aca­d­e­m­ic behind UltimEyes, the vision improve­ment app that got dinged by the Fed­er­al Trade Com­mis­sion (FTC) for $150,000 last week for mak­ing decep­tive claims about the app’s effi­ca­cy. [Read more…] about Next: How to best civ­i­lize the mobile brain health and brain train­ing Wild West (Tip: Con­sumer edu­ca­tion may help more than pure regulation)

Emerging apps: Train the brain to train the eye

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vision iris scan New vision app keeps base­ball play­ers’ eye on the ball (CBS News):

“Andriese and Chavez were among the 19 mem­bers of the base­ball team at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia River­side tak­ing part in an exper­i­ment. The goal: train­ing their brain to see bet­ter. The play­ers spent [Read more…] about Emerg­ing apps: Train the brain to train the eye