A few days ago, we hosted a Q&A session on Facebook about brain plasticity and brain fitness with Posit Science founder Dr. Michael Merzenich. For those who missed the discussion and prefer to read it in transcript form, I’ve re-posted it here. Question: I would love to know what Dr. Merzenich thinks about brain plasticity [...]

1. Evaluating Brain Fitness Programs – Which Should I Choose?
2. Our Brain Awareness Session on Brain Foods with Karen Merzenich
3. Our Brain Awareness Q&A Session on Movement, Exercise, and the Brain with Dr. G

Last week I wrote about some very healthy, happy centenarians and talked about a recent study on people aged 100+ that found some commonalities across those living long and well. Today I saw that Dr. Mark Lachs has just come out with a new book called Treat Me, Not My Age which purports to give [...]

1. Our Brain Awareness Session on Brain Plasticity & Brain Fitness with Dr. Michael Merzenich
2. Posit Science training programs provide many real-world benefits
3. Live Blogging the SharpBrains Summit – Day 1

A study showing that people who retire earlier have lower performance on cognitive tests. This is another piece of evidence that leading a brain-healthy lifestyle improves cognitive abilities later in life.

1. UFOV Training Reduces Medical Expenditures
2. Giving Health Advice for Older People? Don’t Forget the Brain!
3. Posit Science training programs provide many real-world benefits

Published research shows improvement in visual working memory by training with InSight’s SweepSeeker exercise.

1. Having Correctly Prescribed Glasses Improves Quality of Life
2. Memory, IQ and EQ
3. Live Blogging the SharpBrains Summit – Day 2

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. [...]

1. Live Blogging the SharpBrains Summit – Day 1
2. Our Brain Awareness Session on Brain Plasticity & Brain Fitness with Dr. Michael Merzenich
3. Posit Science training programs provide many real-world benefits

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. [...]

1. Tinnitus, Music, and Brain Plasticity
2. New Early Detection Method for Alzheimer’s Disease
3. Don’t Relax Too Much! Why Retirement May Be Bad For Your Brain

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 [...]

1. UFOV Training Reduces Medical Expenditures
2. Live Blogging the SharpBrains Summit – Day 1
3. Giving Health Advice for Older People? Don’t Forget the Brain!

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 [...]

1. Posit Science training programs provide many real-world benefits
2. Want to Live Longer? Keep Driving!
3. New Study Shows: Posit Science Brain Training Reduces Crash Risk in Older Adults by 50%

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. Posit Science training programs provide many real-world benefits
2. UFOV Training Reduces Medical Expenditures
3. Live Blogging the SharpBrains Summit – Day 1

‘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 [...]

1. Biking in the city
2. UCSF Researchers Show InSight Program Improves Working Memory
3. How Do You Teach A 6-Year-Old with Autism to Ride a Bike?