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By SharpBrains | October 1, 2015

UC 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…

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Emerging apps: Train the brain to train the eye

By SharpBrains | July 14, 2014

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 

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