Published research shows improvement in visual working memory by training with InSight’s SweepSeeker exercise.
Tags: Adam Gazzaley, InSight, PloSOne, Sweep Seeker, UCSF
Posted July 14, 2010 by Steven Aldrich under Benefits of Brain Fitness, Brain exercise, Brain plasticity, InSight, Memory, Posit Science software, Research studies
The brain fitness market has expanded rapidly in recent years, and there is now a large selection of computer and on-line brain training exercises to choose from. At one end of the spectrum are games that are purely for entertainment purposes. At the other end are exercises that have been scientifically validated in clinical trials. [...]
Tags: brain fitness, Evaluating brain fitness products, michael merzenich, science claims, sharpbrains
Posted May 4, 2010 by Peter Delahunt under Benefits of Brain Fitness, Brain Fitness Marketing, Brain Fitness Program, Brain exercise, Brain plasticity, DriveSharp, Driving, InSight, Neuroscience, Research studies
April is Parkinson’s Disease Awareness Month. As you’re probably aware, Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a degenerative, progressive brain disease that mainly affects movement, causing tremors, balance problems, rigidity, or slow movements. You may not know that PD can also manifest other debilitating symptoms, including cognitive impairment, insomnia, depression, anxiety, and a host of ophthalmological abnormalities. [...]
Tags: cognitive decline, Parkinson's, PD, tremors
Posted April 1, 2010 by Karen Merzenich under Benefits of Brain Fitness, Brain Fitness Program, InSight, Neuroscience, Odds and Ends, Research studies
Depending on where you live, you may have seen our new commercial on TV. We are really proud of it- because it reminds people that among other benefits, Posit Science programs are clinically proven to help people improve their memory and auditory processing, cut crash risk in half, and protect health-related quality of life for [...]
Tags: brain fitness, brain training, commercial, contest, giveaway
Posted March 16, 2010 by Karen Merzenich under Benefits of Brain Fitness, Brain Fitness Marketing, Brain Fitness Program, Brain exercise, DriveSharp, InSight, Memory, Posit Science software, Processing speed, Research studies
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 [...]
Tags: ACTIVE study, brain fitness, brain training, Fredric Wolinsky, medical expenditures, Medicare, scientific studies, University of Iowa
Posted February 16, 2010 by Peter Delahunt under Benefits of Brain Fitness, Brain exercise, DriveSharp, Exercise, InSight, Neuroscience, Posit Science software, Processing speed, Research studies
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 [...]
Tags: depression, Driving, driving cessation, health care, isolation, jerri edwards, mortality
Posted February 4, 2010 by Peter Delahunt under Benefits of Brain Fitness, Brain exercise, DriveSharp, Driving, InSight, Neuroscience, Research studies
‘If you want to keep safe out there, you must use your peripheral vision.’ So said the mentor in the orange vest. I was in a crowd of about 100 cyclists who were about to embark on their first criterium bicycle race. Criteriums are circuit races that are held on short road circuits. In this [...]
Tags: UFOV, visual processing
Posted January 26, 2010 by Peter Delahunt under Benefits of Brain Fitness, InSight, Physical exercise
11:05 am: This session has now concluded. That is the end of my blogging from the Sharp Brains summit. All the best, Peter. 11:04 am: Dr. Stern believes that improving executive functioning performance with training can increase cognitive reserve. Improving cognitive reserve may delay or reverse the effects of aging. 10:56 am: Now speaking is [...]
Tags: brain fitness, IMPACT study
Posted January 19, 2010 by Peter Delahunt under Benefits of Brain Fitness, Brain exercise, Brain plasticity, InSight, Memory, Neuroscience, Processing speed, Research studies
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 [...]
Tags: allstate, alvaro fernandez, bill reichman, brain fitness, cognifit, conference, david whitehouse, Driving, driving safety, Elizabeth Zelinski, elkhonon goldberg, IMPACT study, jerri edwards, Kunal Sarkar, Lumosity, marian diamond, murali doraiswamy, plasticity, science claims, sharpbrains, shlomo breznitz, summit, teen driving, tom warden
Posted January 18, 2010 by Karen Merzenich under Benefits of Brain Fitness, Brain Fitness Marketing, Brain Fitness Program, Brain exercise, Brain plasticity, DriveSharp, Driving, Driving safety, Exercise, InSight, Memory, Neuroscience, Posit Science software, Processing speed, Research studies
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 [...]
Tags: car accidents, crash risk, elderly drivers
Posted January 15, 2010 by Cyrus Hedayati under Benefits of Brain Fitness, Brain exercise, Brain plasticity, DriveSharp, Driving, Driving safety, Exercise, InSight, Posit Science software, Processing speed, Research studies