End Notes

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7*Zelinski et al. “The IMPACT Study: A Ran­dom­ized Con­trolled Tri­al of a Brain Plas­tic­i­ty-Based Train­ing Pro­gram for Age-Relat­ed Decline”. Ongoing.
8*Gage et al. Adult Neu­ro­ge­n­e­sis. Cold Spring Har­bor Lab­o­ra­to­ry Press, 2007.
9*IGN, NPD
10*Centers for Dis­ease Con­trol and Pre­ven­tion (CDC) and the Alzheimer’s Asso­ci­a­tion. “The Healthy Brain Ini­tia­tive: A Nation­al Pub­lic Health Road Map to Main­tain­ing Cog­ni­tive Health”, 2007.
11*Joe Vergh­ese, “Leisure Activ­i­ties and the Risk of Demen­tia in the Elder­ly”, 2003, The New Eng­land Jour­nal of Medicine.
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16*IGN, NPD.
17*Evan Wil­son, Pacif­ic Crest Secu­ri­ties. Quot­ed in Gamespot on July 31st 2007.
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29*American Soci­ety for Train­ing & Devel­op­ment. The State of the Indus­try 2006 report, 2006.
30*PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Work­ing towards well­ness: Accel­er­at­ing the pre­ven­tion of chron­ic dis­ease, 2006.
31*Motorola. North Amer­i­can Well­ness Ini­tia­tive, 2006.
32*Niels C. Hauffe. The US Cor­po­rate Well­ness Study, 2002.
33*Microsoft. The Aging Work­force Demo­graph­ics and Phys­i­o­log­i­cal Changes of Aging, 2006.
34*Li et al: “Human fac­tors in avi­a­tion crash­es involv­ing old­er pilots”. Avi­a­tion Space Env­i­ron Med. 2002.
35*Alhadeff, Eliane. “Seri­ous Games: A Size­able Mar­ket — Update,” Future-Mak­ing Seri­ous Games, June 24, 2007.
36*68th Road Safe­ty Con­gress. Safer Dri­ving: Reduc­ing Risks, Crash­es & Casu­al­ties, March 3–5, 2003.
37*Gopher et al:“Transfer of skill from a com­put­er game train­er to flight”, Human Fac­tors 36, 1–19, 1994.
38*Hart & Battiste:“Flight test of a video game trainer.“Proceedings of the Human Fac­tors Soci­ety 26th Meet­ing (pp. 1291–1295).
39*Shebilske et al: “Revised Space Fortress: A val­i­da­tion study”. Behav­ior Research Meth­ods, 37, 591–601. 2005.

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