At the Transportation Research Board annual meeting last year I attended a talk by Dr. Fredric Wolinsky of the University of Iowa. Along with his colleagues, he conducted an analysis of participants in the ACTIVE clinical trial, the largest study of cognitive training performed to date. He found that people who had done ten hours [...]

Recently Dr. Jerri Edwards of the University of South Florida published a paper showing that older adults who cease driving have higher mortality rates.1 You might think this can be easily explained by the fact that unhealthy people are more likely to cease driving. However, Dr. Edwards used an analytical method to take into account [...]

1:38 PM: That’s it for our live blog today- Peter Delahunt will start the live blogging tomorrow morning at 8 AM for Day 2 coverage.  We hope you enjoyed the live blog and that you’ll be back tomorrow! 1:35 PM: Elkhonon Goldberg is the Chief Scientific Advisor to SharpBrains. He begins by discussing the role [...]

The evidence in favor of brain training just keeps rolling in: even a small amount of brain training in brain fitness software like InSight or DriveSharp can cut the crash risk of older driver’s in half. Don’t believe me? Check at this recent study presented at this year’s annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board [...]

I’ve been reading a fascinating book called Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt.  He writes about many of the challenges that driving presents to the brain.  In one section he quotes a survey of a road in Maryland where information is presented to the driver every two feet (think of traffic signs, road markings, stoplights, street names… not [...]

The holidays are rapidly approaching, and if you’re like me, you may still be struggling with deciding what ‘perfect gift’ you should give your mate or aunt or sister that could really mean something for them.  In the Land of Plenty, it is sometimes hard to determine what those individuals that we love can really [...]

Posit Science is participating in the inaugural SharpBrains Summit next month. The conference is the first global and virtual conference devoted to Innovation and Technology for Lifelong Cognitive Health and Performance. On January 18th, I am speaking on a panel about applying brain plasticity to improve driving safety. On January 19th, Posit Science co-founder Dr. [...]

I read an interesting science paper recently published in the Journal of Gerontology. Dr. Sheila West and her colleagues from Johns Hopkins University asked older drivers to volunteer to have their cars rigged with cameras and GPS systems to monitor their driving over a five-day period. They recruited 1,425 drivers aged 67 to 85. Specifically [...]

Brain Fitness Fans: your holiday shopping just got a whole lot easier! I’ve compiled a gift guide of our favorite brain healthy products- so that this holiday season, you can give your friends and loved ones the gift of brain fitness at any price. If you have additional ideas or suggestions, please add them in [...]

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