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Sport-specific brain training programs gain adoption in basketball, ice hockey and soccer

June 14, 2016 by SharpBrains

– Elite youth hock­ey play­ers in MN camp. Image cour­tesy of Applied Cog­ni­tive Engineering

Intel­li­Gym Trains The Brain Of An Ath­lete Like A Fight­er Pilot (Sport­Techie):

“Fight­er pilots and peo­ple play­ing team sports have more in com­mon than you may have thought.

In fact, the cog­ni­tive func­tions play­ers need on the soc­cer pitch, the ice rink and the bas­ket­ball court are very sim­i­lar to those fight­er pilots use dur­ing aer­i­al com­bat. [Read more…] about Sport-spe­cif­ic brain train­ing pro­grams gain adop­tion in bas­ket­ball, ice hock­ey and soccer

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning, Peak Performance Tagged With: Applied-Cognitive-Engineering, athlete, brain, Brain-Training, cognitive, intelligym, soccer, sports, sports performance, train brain, USA-Hockey

Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine Center adopts Intelligym cognitive training

May 14, 2014 by SharpBrains

USAHockey_IntelliGymIntelligym’s Cog­ni­tive Ther­a­py Tech­nolo­gies Added to Com­pre­hen­sive Approach in Mayo Clin­ic Sports Med­i­cine Center’s Hock­ey Pro­gram (press release):

“Cog­ni­tive train­ing has tak­en off amongst thou­sands of play­ers and hock­ey pro­grams [Read more…] about Mayo Clin­ic Sports Med­i­cine Cen­ter adopts Intel­li­gym cog­ni­tive training

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Filed Under: Technology & Innovation Tagged With: cognitive-abilities, Cognitive-Training, Decision-making, hockey-intelligym, intelligym, Mayo-Clinic, sports-medicine, USA-Hockey

USA Hockey uses cognitive training to enhance pattern recognition, game-intelligence

December 23, 2013 by SharpBrains

USAHockey_IntelliGymAster­oids on Ice: Video Game Helps Young Play­ers Devel­op Skills (New York Times):

  • “Could a desk­top com­put­er game be what makes the young Amer­i­cans so good?… “Work the brain; the sci­ence is there,” said Dan­ton Cole, in his fourth sea­son as the coach of USA Hockey’s U‑18 team…For the past five sea­sons, [Read more…] about USA Hock­ey uses cog­ni­tive train­ing to enhance pat­tern recog­ni­tion, game-intelligence

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning, Peak Performance Tagged With: Applied-Cognitive-Engineering, attention control, Brain-Training, Cognitive-Training, intelligym, USA-Hockey, videogame

The future (of brain health) is already here. It’s just not evenly distributed

February 17, 2011 by SharpBrains

We are pleased to announce two new resources for all pro­fes­sion­als, researchers, devel­op­ers, inno­va­tors and deci­sion-mak­ers in the field of brain health and cog­ni­tive fit­ness who are inter­est­ed in bet­ter track­ing and shap­ing the future that is already here.

First of all, we have opened up a “Friends of SharpBrains.com” pro­fes­sion­al net­work­ing group on LinkedIn. If you are already a LinkedIn mem­ber, you can join the 377 exist­ing mem­bers by click­ing Here.

Sec­ond, reg­is­tered par­tic­i­pants for the upcom­ing 2011 Sharp­Brains Sum­mit (March 30 — April 1st) can now con­nect with each oth­er and with speak­ers, as well as access 10 exclu­sive Inno­va­tion Case Stud­ies pre­pared by the Win­ners and Final­ists of the 2010 Brain Fit­ness Inno­va­tion Awards. [Read more…] about The future (of brain health) is already here. It’s just not even­ly distributed

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: AAA Foun­da­tion for Traf­fic Safety, All­state, Arrow­smith Pro­gram, Brain-health, innovation, LinkedIn, Men­tal Health Asso­ci­a­tion of Rock­land County, Nation­wide Mutual Insur­ance, Oak­land Uni­fied School Dis­trict, Saint Luke's Brain and Stroke Insti­tute, SCAN Health Plan, Uni­ver­sity Behav­ioral Health­Care, USA-Hockey

SharpBrains Council Monthly Insights: How will we assess, enhance and repair cognition across the lifespan?

November 18, 2010 by SharpBrains

When you think of how the PC has altered the fab­ric of soci­ety, per­mit­ting instant access to infor­ma­tion and automat­ing process­es beyond our wildest dreams, it is instruc­tive to con­sid­er that much of this progress was dri­ven by Moore’s law. Halv­ing the size of semi­con­duc­tor every 18 months catal­ysed an expo­nen­tial accel­er­a­tion in performance.

Why is this sto­ry rel­e­vant to mod­ern neu­ro­science and the work­ings of the brain? Because trans­for­ma­tive tech­no­log­i­cal progress aris­es out of choice and the actions of indi­vid­u­als who see poten­tial for change, and we may well be on the verge of such progress. [Read more…] about Sharp­Brains Coun­cil Month­ly Insights: How will we assess, enhance and repair cog­ni­tion across the lifespan?

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: AARP, aging, awards, BBC, brain-based, brain-computer interface, brain-fitness-training, Brain-health, Brain-Training, CBT, clinical-trials, cogmed, cognitive-functioning, cognitive-health, Cognitive-Training, Dakim, DHA, driving, emotional functioning, health-systems, HR departments, HRV, innovation, insurers, Lumosity, Marbles, mental capital, Mental-Health, Moore's law, National-Academy-of-Sciences, National-Institute-of-Health, nature, Neuropsychology, neuroscience, NovaVision, occupational health, Pearson, pharma, poineers, Posit-Science, PTSD, retirement-communities, schools, seniors providers, Serco, sports clubs, sports-concussions, UCLA, Ultrasis, US Navy, USA-Hockey, workplace, Zeo

New Report Finds A Brain Health Revolution in the Making, Driven by Digital Technology and Neuroplasticity Research

June 28, 2010 by Alvaro Fernandez

2010MarketReportIn spite of the recent eco­nom­ic down­turn, rev­enues for dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies to assess, enhance and treat cog­ni­tion, or dig­i­tal brain health and fit­ness tools, grew 35% in 2009. “The con­ver­gence of demo­graph­ic and pol­i­cy trends with cog­ni­tive neu­ro­science dis­cov­er­ies and tech­no­log­i­cal inno­va­tion is giv­ing birth to a nascent mar­ket­place that can fun­da­men­tal­ly trans­form what brain health is, how it is mea­sured, and how it is done,” says Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, mem­ber of the World Eco­nom­ic Forum’s Coun­cil on the Aging Soci­ety and Edi­tor-in-Chief of the report. “This ground­break­ing report can help pio­neers shape the emerg­ing toolk­it to ben­e­fit an aging soci­ety that increas­ing­ly seeks new ways to enhance cog­ni­tive func­tion­al­i­ty and men­tal well­ness across the lifespan.”

“As the brain is thrust into the cen­ter of the health­care ecosys­tem, inno­v­a­tive cog­ni­tive health and brain fit­ness appli­ca­tions will play an increas­ing­ly impor­tant role in defin­ing neu­ro­cen­tric health,” adds Jake Duna­gan, Research Direc­tor at the Insti­tute For The Future.

Report: Trans­form­ing Brain Health with Dig­i­tal Tools to Assess, Enhance and Treat Cog­ni­tion across the Lifes­pan: The State of the Brain Fit­ness Mar­ket 2010. 

A major­i­ty among the 1,900+ deci­sion-mak­ers and ear­ly-adopters sur­veyed said they trust­ed the effec­tive­ness of non-inva­sive options above inva­sive options to enhance crit­i­cal brain func­tion­al­i­ty. Pro­fes­sion­al and intel­lec­tu­al chal­lenges were rat­ed very effec­tive by 61% of respon­dents, aer­o­bic exer­cise and read­ing books by 42%, med­i­ta­tion by 38%, com­put­er­ized brain train­ing by 26%, tak­ing pre­scrip­tion drugs by 13%, tak­ing sup­ple­ments by 12%, and self-med­icat­ing with drugs by 1%.

These are among the key find­ings of a 207-page mar­ket report released today by Sharp­Brains and pre­pared in col­lab­o­ra­tion with 24 lead­ing sci­en­tists and 10 inno­v­a­tive orga­ni­za­tions — the most com­pre­hen­sive such research study done to ana­lyze emerg­ing research, tech­nolo­gies and marketplace.

“We must do for brain health in the 21st cen­tu­ry what we large­ly accom­plished in car­dio­vas­cu­lar health in the past cen­tu­ry. It’s time to take sci­en­tif­ic insights out of the lab and to iden­ti­fy prac­ti­cal appli­ca­tions, mak­ing the main­te­nance of good brain fit­ness a pub­lic health pri­or­i­ty,” indi­cates William Reich­man, MD, Pres­i­dent and CEO of Baycrest.

Oth­er Report High­lights are: [Read more…] about New Report Finds A Brain Health Rev­o­lu­tion in the Mak­ing, Dri­ven by Dig­i­tal Tech­nol­o­gy and Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty Research

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: AAA-Foundation-for-Traffic-Safety, Advanced-Brain-Technologies, Allstate, Applied-Cognitive-Engineering, Arrowsmith School, assess cognition, Brain-Center-America, Brain-exercises, brain-fitness-gym, brain-fitness-software, Brain-Resource, CNS-Vital-Signs, cogmed, Cogniciti, cognifit, cognition, Cognitive Fitness and Innovative Therapies, cognitive training system, CogState, Dakim, digital brain health, digital technology, digital tools, E-Hub, enhance cognition, Houghton-Mifflin, Learning-Enhancement-Corporation, LearningRx, Lexia-Learning, lumos-labs, Marbles:-The-Brain-Store, MedInteract, Memory Training Centers of America, Mental Health Association of Rockland County, Mind360, MyBrainTrainer, Nationwide, NeoCorta, Neuropsychology, NeuroTrax, NovaVision, Oakland-Unified-School-District, Posit-Science, Saint Luke's Brain and Stroke Institute, SCAN Health Plan, scientific-brain-training, Scientific-Learning, start-up, Telos International, treat cognition, Ultrasis, United-BioSource, University Behavioral HealthCare, USA-Hockey, vibrantbrains, Vigorous-Mind, Vivity-Labs

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