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To treat depression, we will likely combine neuroplasticity-based brain...
Computer Games Better Than Medication in Treating Elderly Depression (Live Science): “Computer games could help in treating older people with depression who haven’t been helped by antidepressant drugs...
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Sneak peak into the Preliminary Agenda @ 2014 SharpBrains Virtual Summit
Heads-up: If you want to join 20+ confirmed world-class speakers and 100+ professionals at the forefront of brain health and applied neuroscience, please Register now and help us finalize the...
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Challenging the outdated “fixed brain” dogma, the cognitive training market...
This Man’s Brain Recovery Has Baffled Scientists And Provided Hope For Others (The Telegraph): “…The odds of surviving a coma are notoriously hard to predict, brain injury being the most complex of...
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Beauty in and out: Brain training workshop @ Estée Lauder
Our very own Alvaro Fernandez will be running a brain training workshop today with a team of Estée Lauder marketing pioneers in NYC. Thanks to the CMO Club, MediaMath, and Renegade for making this...
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Update: Why brain training needs to be better targeted, and more widely...
— Time for SharpBrains’ August 2014 e-newsletter, featuring a wealth of insights, science and technology reports…and this brain teaser to exercise your mental rotation abilities. Enjoy! New trends:...
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Itamar Lesuisse at Peak: Let’s integrate brain training with the quantified self
Itamar Lesuisse What is your current job title and organization, and what excites you the most about working there? I am the CEO at Peak, a mobile brain-training app that helps users to enjoy...
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Update: Let’s transform brain health from “suffer-in-silence” to...
Time for our September 2014 e-newsletter, featuring a wealth of insights and innovations reports…including four thought-provoking interviews with Sponsors of the 2014 SharpBrains Virtual Summit...
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Out: crossword puzzles. In: digital cognitive assessments and training
Do brain games work? (The Boston Globe): “There’s intense interest — and the potential for big money — in the world of brain games. Lumosity…claims 60 million users…The market for Lumosity and...
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Challenge: Helping consumers separate brain training wheat from brain games...
— Brain-Training Companies Get Advice From Some Academics, Criticism From Others (The Chronicle of Higher Education): “…brain-game companies entice people to buy subscriptions to their online training...
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Cognitive maintenance 2.0: From crossword puzzles to targeted mental stimulation
The Silver Economy: Brain training fired up by hard evidence (Financial Times): “Not so long ago, people kept ageing brains active through reading and writing, talking with friends and family, and...
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Update: “You’re not a prisoner of your DNA”
Time for SharpBrains’ October e-newsletter, featuring the usual wealth of insights and resources and, above all, thanking the 215 participants in 17 countries who joined an amazing 2014 SharpBrains...
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To develop personalized brain training that works, gather and analyze big data
— The Brain-Games Conundrum: Does Cognitive Training Really Sharpen the Mind? (Cerebrum): “…the issue of what does and doesn’t work is complex…The critical question is whether transfer of training...
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Quick brain teasers to train your attention and working memory
— Here you have a few fun mental exercises to train your attention and working memory (the capacity to hold multiple pieces of information in the mind, and to use them real-time). Given them a try...
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Brain training 2.0: Adding 3D Navigation to Optimize Cognitive Training
As discussed during my SharpBrains Summit talk last week, it is very important to ensure fidelity between brain training tasks and the real-world scenarios where we expect those sharpened cognitive...
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Update: Should Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (not antidepressant drugs) be...
— Time for SharpBrains’ November e-newsletter, featuring a wealth of brain health insights, neuroscience and psychology research reports…and some fun brain teasers. Enjoy! New thinking: Should...
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Study: For healthy older adults, social brain training offers the most clear...
— If Home Brain Training Apps Don’t Work, What Does? (Healthline): “In a study published online Nov. 18 in PLOS Medicine, Australian researchers reviewed 52 previous studies that looked at the...
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Apple names brain training app “2014 App of the Year”
Apple names its top apps of 2014 (Mashable): “It’s a good day for Elevate, which was just named Apple’s favorite app of 2014. The app, which helps you improve memory and focus, was Apple’s top pick of...
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Open question: How to personalize brain training based on age, personality,...
— Brain Training Goes to School (WebMD): “Kristy Lea was searching for a way to help her 5-year-old son improve his ADHD, and she wanted to reserve medication as a last resort…Increasingly, therapists,...
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Apple names brain training apps “Best of 2014″ in 20+ countries
Brain training is going mobile, and global. Not only did Apple name one brain training app (Elevate) “Best App of the Year” in the US, across all categories, but it handpicked another brain training...
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127 scientists challenge the purported brain training “consensus” released by...
— Scientists to Stanford: Research Shows Brain Exercises Can Work (Press release): “A group of 127 scientists sent an “open letter” to the Stanford Center for Longevity, today, in reaction to a recent...
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